Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics 50+ mm scopes Where do you use them.

Please continue to burnish your image as resident campfire idiot.

I tried a 50mm scope on one of my rifles for an egg match and for load developement and had to use such high rings that I ended up having to install an adjustable cheek peice to be able to shoot the gun accurately. So where do you used these monsters. I'm not much of a big game hunter any more but have hunted coyotes in five states so far this year and find my 1.5x6x40mm more than adequate and I don't even have any hunting hour restrictions.

Hey if you fudge packers like 50mm scopes I'm ok with that. They scream redneck trailer park trash but hey I'm guessing you have a Browning sticker too.

It sounds like you either have a poorly shaped stock or a weird face structure. Also, most 50mm objective scopes will go into medium rings which aren't very high at all, it depends upon the base height and barrel contour among other things.

Nothing seems to get the scope nazis worked up here more than guys owning big objective scopes. It's like mentioning an AR-15 to a democrat, they start frothing at the mouth about how nobody needs to own one of THOSE things.

The fact of the matter is that nobody really needs a scope at all, iron sights worked for a bunch of people for many hundreds of years. Scopes are a shooting luxury and as such it's up to the user to determine which aspects of that luxury he values more. Some people want more magnification, others want top quality optics, others prize durability at the expense of weight, and others just want something cheap. We all have our criteria for choosing a scope and thankfully there are a bunch of them available for any desire. If you see someone with a high end european scope with a 50-56mm then you can deduce that low light gathering ability is important to him. Your 1.5-6x40 might please you, but generally I want more magnification than that. To keep the scope bright at last light with a deer in the shadows 200 yds away on a food plot I want good glass, high magnification, and a big objective. If you're coyote calling with shots usually under 50 yds & a colored lens spotlight at night, something else might be more optimum.

Choose what works for you and let others choose what works for them. Big objective scopes were typically designed for low light shooting to maintain brightness as you turn up the power. The guys that seem to hate them the most seem to be the western hunters who aim to be back at camp before the sun sets, they can't seem to understand that not everyone hunts that way. To an eastern whitetail hunter the last five minutes of daylight usually provides more quality hunting than the entire rest of the day, if your equipment can't hack it when the light gets low then you're wasting your time. I don't care that it doesn't handle quite as well as rifle with a 2.5-8x36 leupold, it matters none at all when it's slung over my back for the 1/4 mile mostly flat walk to my stand. I also don't care that it's an inch longer, 3 oz. heavier, or sits .125" higher in the rings, those are easy enough to deal with for the extra performance it gives me in my hunting environment.

If one doesn't work for you then don't buy one, but don't dismiss that no one "needs" one because they don't fill your desires. Your hunting conditions aren't the same as the guys using them.

Personally,I'm a fan of smaller objectives.I wish there were more quality 36mm objective scopes.

So do I.

As long as there's a fascination with ultrapowered scopes by the wannabe sniper crowd I'm not holding my breath for an increase in numbers of the 2-7x,2-8, or 3-9x36 etc. variables that will be available on the market.

Hey if you fudge packers like 50mm scopes I'm ok with that. They scream redneck trailer park trash but hey I'm guessing you have a Browning sticker too.

Do you know what the most popular sized hunting scopes are? I am thinkng they are the 40-42 mm. scopes, and
for a good reason. Most hunters want a scope that allows a good view of what they are shooting at, when the
light grows dim. That means first light and late light. Deer hunting, often requires light gathering, during
those critical times in the field.

I hope this is not too complicated for some, most here are looking for advice for hunting optics.
If you are a target shooter then go for whatever.


I would not purchase anything smaller, as many others would.

Not to mention a 20mm.


Travis

trick shooter..this is the optics forum, if it dont say S&B there is no way you'll be able to see your whitetail out in the food plot.