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Old 10-02-2010 | 07:11 PM
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Unless a person is hunting in the wide open there are gonna be many more times they will wish they had 2X or 3X magnification at the low end than 14X, 16X or 24X at the high end.

Trying to find that buck walking through heavy cover at 40 yards with that 6-24X is gonna be a hard thing to do.

If you have a bunch rifles that are set up for a variety of hunting situations like a bean field rifle, pronghorn rifle, varmint rifle, etc... then by all means set them up with high magnification if needed. But a general purpose rifle that may have to pull duty in everything from thick woods at bow ranges to 400 -500 yard shots in a food plot a 3-9X or 3-10X is perfect and all that is needed.
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