Plant.One
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most of my scoped rifles wear a 4-12x40 on them.
but a lot of that is related to my eyesight - im near sighted. if i'm shooting at distance that 12x is nice, although i often find myself at around 8-10x in the field, depending on lighting conditions.
if you're gonna be hunting close, i could see where a 2-8 or something of that nature would be helpful, but if you're gonna be doing both short and distance shooting - having the ability to get into double digits is helpful - especially when punching paper for load developement or zero confirmation at longer ranges and trying to see those tiny little 22 caliber holes past 100 yds.
my optics are a mix of vortex and leupy's for the most part. So i'm not using $50 scopes as my benchmark by any means.
but a lot of that is related to my eyesight - im near sighted. if i'm shooting at distance that 12x is nice, although i often find myself at around 8-10x in the field, depending on lighting conditions.
if you're gonna be hunting close, i could see where a 2-8 or something of that nature would be helpful, but if you're gonna be doing both short and distance shooting - having the ability to get into double digits is helpful - especially when punching paper for load developement or zero confirmation at longer ranges and trying to see those tiny little 22 caliber holes past 100 yds.
my optics are a mix of vortex and leupy's for the most part. So i'm not using $50 scopes as my benchmark by any means.