Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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SecretSquirrel
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I love my Nikon ProStaff for hunting in general, works great though in low light hunts, deer, coyote, etc. You can pick them up pretty cheap too. My dad loves Nikon's as well, but he has a Tasco scope with a illuminated scope for deer hunting, it helps with the red/green illuminated reticle. Since I'm the same age ( still learning), what do you guys mean by 40 or 50?
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Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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That's the glass size in the bell
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Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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danny clifton
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if its too dark to see with a cheap Walmart in the plastic wrapper scope its too dark to shoot. Don't start calling till you can see. Quit if its too dark. All that JUNK the ads and gun writers and stuff talk about is get you TO SPEND MORE MONEY.
girls will pay 200 bucks for a pair of jeans and 600 for a handbag to impress other girls.
Men do that with pickups and gun stuff. don't try to impress people you don't know. the difference in a 200 dollar scope and a 1000 dollar scope wont put a single extra coyote on your stretchers.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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well guess these guys know way more than I do! RR No. No they don't...
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Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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unless I am putting a gun together specifically to go father than 250 yards as it's primary purpose 2-7x32 is the way to go
Nikon or Vortex I have some of both there is better glass but but you pay double to take the next step up on a 222/20ga savage 24 you don't need huge glass chances are you will be very unlikely to shoot past 250 yards.
light transmission is very good and low magnification lets more light pass than higher magnification and provides a wide field of view
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Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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03/19/18 11:32 AM
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My tall rings don't give me any trouble, my t.20 has a couple three shot groups with less than a quarter inch outside to outside hole If a coyote jumps up I have it in my scope immedeatly so I don't think it causes me any trouble
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Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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03/19/18 11:34 AM
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Anyone use Vortex. I would like to get one. got a .243 with a cheap Bushnell. Not a good scope. It is blurry and its focus is just horrible. So are the crosshairs. Big and thick, cover a coyotes whole shoulder and neck at 250 yards. Its also got 4-9 power but it stays on 9 because of the low magnification.
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Re: Scope for predator hunting?
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03/19/18 11:39 AM
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unless I am putting a gun together specifically to go father than 250 yards as it's primary purpose 2-7x32 is the way to go
Nikon or Vortex I have some of both there is better glass but but you pay double to take the next step up on a 222/20ga savage 24 you don't need huge glass chances are you will be very unlikely to shoot past 250 yards.
light transmission is very good and low magnification lets more light pass than higher magnification and provides a wide field of view
Does your Nikon have regular cross hairs or does it have BDC/mil dots and whatever else they can fit in? I'd like to get one, but all the ones i see at stores have something besides crosshairs.
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