When the top Magnification on a Rifle Scope Is Not the Best

There are thousands of rifle scopes ready for buy in our day in age. With so many options ready the selection of the best rifle scope ordinarily comes down to price. When manufacture a selection of the rifle scope for a gun, quite a few things should be taken under notice other than just the price.

The first notice should be how the rifle scope is going to be used. Is it going to be for hunting? If so, what is the average range of the shot it will be used for? If the average shot will be less than 300 yards, or possibly more like 300 to 1000 yards, then we may be talking about completely separate options. When finding at new rifle scopes the record for them ordinarily is something like 3-9x40, or possibly 16-42x50, etc. These numbers may seem foreign to most at first view but they will pretty much tell anyone purchasing a rifle scope all they need to know.

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Most of the deer and elk hunters that I hunt with will use something similar to a 3-9x40 on their rifle because we are ordinarily shooting less than 300 yards. The 3-9 at the starting of this record is the changeable magnification function on the scope. Meaning, the rifle scope has an adjustment knob that can be set to magnify the target in any place from 3 times to 9 times. The main presuppose the magnification would be adjusted is because of the distance of the shot being taken. If a deer is 300 yards away then the 9 times magnification would definitely give the hunter a good view of the target. However, if that same deer appears at 40 yards, a 9 times magnification will increase the difficult of manufacture the shot because all that can be seen is hair!

A good example of this happened to me a few years ago while hunting elk on opening day of hunting season. It was early in the morning and I was hunkered down in a ground blind waiting for an elk to come down one of the well used trails I was sitting below. The trails were and easy 150 yards from where I sat so I had my scope set at 9 times so that I could see them clearly when they came through. What I had not planned on however, was a nice bull suddenly walking through the brush at about 30 yards! I brought up my rifle and tried to get him to stop with a low grunt. It worked, but with the magnification set so high I could find him in my scope. Long story short, I did not bag my elk on opening morning that year.

Since this perceive I make sure I have my magnification set low just in case and am prepared to adjust up if the animal is additional away. If the animal is additional away I have plentifulness of time to adjust my rifle scope without being seen, this is not the case if the animal is right on top of me. The closer the animal the lower the magnification, a good rule to use when hunting with a rifle.

When the top Magnification on a Rifle Scope Is Not the Best

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