All the scopes on my big game hunting rifles are 3x9-40. While I'm still hunting the mountains I generally leave my scope set between 3-5x, while I'm sitting glassing I turn it up to 9x. A good fixed 6x power would probably do everything I need but I do like the option of cranking back to 3x in the big timber. Lesson learned after sitting and glassing a mountain meadow with my binoculars, rifle on 9x, hiking back to the truck I forgot to turn it back to 3 or 4x. Shortly before I reached the truck a whitetail buck stepped out, at 20m. All I saw was hair, luckily he stuck around long enough for me to turn it down so I could tell which hair I was aiming at.
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