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What is your opinion on this scope and power range for general purpose hunting.
http://www.leupold.com/hunting-shooting ... -75-6x32mm
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Good points.wildgene":2rp78dfu said:...I sure love my 2.5X8 VX-3, same price as the 1.75X5, weighs an ounce more. A whole deer fits in the scope @ 40', I went out on the back porch & checked, you're not really giving up much 'field of view', about 2' @ 30yds., but 8X is a definite step up from 5X. I've used mine in the 'black timber' of N.ID., shooying across canyons & 40ac. wheatfields. Lot of deer, elk, & bear between 20 & 450yds...
+1 ,This is also my favorite scope. I have it atop my .308 and would mine getting another. LeeJD338":16cxql1h said:Good points.wildgene":16cxql1h said:...I sure love my 2.5X8 VX-3, same price as the 1.75X5, weighs an ounce more. A whole deer fits in the scope @ 40', I went out on the back porch & checked, you're not really giving up much 'field of view', about 2' @ 30yds., but 8X is a definite step up from 5X. I've used mine in the 'black timber' of N.ID., shooying across canyons & 40ac. wheatfields. Lot of deer, elk, & bear between 20 & 450yds...
I would add that on 8X, the cross hairs fit perfectly in a 6" bullseye at 500 yds. The 2.5-8x36mm is my favorite scope.
JD338
Jim, which reticule are you referring to?JD338":1jjfrfj8 said:Good points.wildgene":1jjfrfj8 said:...I sure love my 2.5X8 VX-3, same price as the 1.75X5, weighs an ounce more. A whole deer fits in the scope @ 40', I went out on the back porch & checked, you're not really giving up much 'field of view', about 2' @ 30yds., but 8X is a definite step up from 5X. I've used mine in the 'black timber' of N.ID., shooying across canyons & 40ac. wheatfields. Lot of deer, elk, & bear between 20 & 450yds...
I would add that on 8X, the cross hairs fit perfectly in a 6" bullseye at 500 yds. The 2.5-8x36mm is my favorite scope.
JD338
truck driver":2fttnxww said:Jim, which reticule are you referring to?JD338":2fttnxww said:Good points.wildgene":2fttnxww said:...I sure love my 2.5X8 VX-3, same price as the 1.75X5, weighs an ounce more. A whole deer fits in the scope @ 40', I went out on the back porch & checked, you're not really giving up much 'field of view', about 2' @ 30yds., but 8X is a definite step up from 5X. I've used mine in the 'black timber' of N.ID., shooying across canyons & 40ac. wheatfields. Lot of deer, elk, & bear between 20 & 450yds...
I would add that on 8X, the cross hairs fit perfectly in a 6" bullseye at 500 yds. The 2.5-8x36mm is my favorite scope.
JD338
Blkram, if you could only have one which would it be , the 2.5-8X36 or the 1.75-6X32?Blkram":nz9a88wk said:I have1.75-6x32 on one of my BLR's in 358 Win, while the other wears the 1.5-5x20.
Both great scopes and have worked well for years, in all types of scenarios from dense brush to open fields, on bear, moose and elk, and have yet to not prove sufficient.
I've also used the 2.5-8x36 on several rifles over the years, and they are now on my wife's rifles in 7mm-08 and 250 Savage. Also great scopes and work very well, and will prove sufficient for all the hunting that she will do with either rifle.
While I really like the extra light gathering ability of the 2.5-8x36, I appreciate the larger field of view on the 1.5-5x20 when using that 358 in dense brush tracking down bears. And the 1.75-6x32 is a good compromise for a rifle that may need the best of both worlds; more magnification, good field of view with more light gathering ability.