James - what kinda knife ya end up with? I went to Boones after the gunshow an bought myself a hundred rounds of 22mag ammo. Workin on ordering up a new 223 at the moment from my buddy that has his FFL.

Fixed power scopes are great if you don't need the added magnification. For general hunting purposes I always leave my scopes set on 6x. I have a 4x on my 22mag and my 300 Sav, and they are both going to get upgraded to 3-9s, we don't have brush here so fixed powers hurt more than anything.