I just purchased a new varmint rifle and topped it with a Nikon Monarch 6.5-20X44 scope. I was sighting it on the sky to get the reticle focused, and then sighted in a tree about 50 yards away. On the lower magnifications of 6.5X through about 12X the tree was clear and sharp, but any magnification higher than that would case the image to blur. I don' t have much experience with high mag scopes, but I do know that a 3-9X scope will be blurry out to about 25 yards at 9X.

My question is, is blurring to 50+ yards normal for high mag scopes or is there something wrong with mine? I wasn' t about to view anything at a longer distance to see if the image cleared up, but I' m a little worried my $400 scope is messed up.

Thanks,

Mike