I guess if I hadn't of looked through a 4.5x14 while hunting, I would probably go with a smaller magnification. My hunting partner had one on his gun. For desert mule deer hunting it made it nice to look at a buck 5 or 6 hundred yards off with 14 power. The nine on my gun just didn't do what I wanted it to. Thanks for all your help. Yesterday I went and put money down on the 4.5x14.44mm Zeiss.