Originally Posted by
jandrey
Do you think I would ever need the higher power than a 3-9x40 out west for elk or north for caribou/moose?
The last two bull elk that I killed were both less than 200 yd shots with my scope set at 12x. However, I have killed dozens of elk, several caribou, a mountain goat, and a couple of Shiras moose with a 3-9x scope set at 4 or 6x.
I have also killed several bighorn rams, a Dall ram, a mountain caribou, and a couple dozen pronghorn antelope with a fixed 6x Leupold scope.