Not all of my scopes have a large objective, but most were bought when I was young and dumb and didn't know any better then when I got older and wiser, the kids and family come first lol. So, what size objective do you put on your DEER hunting rifle scopes. Personally my go to has a 44mm objective. Ideally I would like to have one of those 56mm objective Leupold has, though I suspect it would make it awfull tempting to stay later than the law allows or start earlier for that matter. I can in some instances see where it would help in a cutover or wooded area where the shadows may be awful dark before legal light is up. I know I used to hunt a cutover in a hollow and the east facing slopes got mighty dark before legal light was up and Id come down when I could no longer see and stalk my way out to the fields I had to go back through to get to the truck and occasionally see deer and even a shot at deer in the field with 5min or so of legal light left.

Also brings to mind another point. I don't really like pointed a gun 'blindly' so to speak to find what I assume is a deer that I can't see with my naked eye, but again, before I knew better, I have hunted places where it was just too dark to see with the naked eye, but could hear them walk, and find them with the scope on low power and see them just fine through the scope.


So what do you guys prefer as an objective size and WHY?

44 is my go to just because of the gun it's on, but I have a 50mm objective scope that I like as well just because of the low light transmition.