Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled "Best Rifle Scope for Deer Hunting" and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/best-rifle-scope-for-deer-hunting/.
These pictures illustrate the challenge of hunting in a fairly wooded environment with or without a rifle scope. If this deer had been running you would have had as much luck hitting this deer with a bullet that was thrown as one that was fired. Notice as the magnification increases you can start to see the bush between me and the target. The trees and brush can make a deer hard to see, and as Talyn pointed out turning up the power on the scope doesn't always give an advantage. As it was, this wasn't a doe day so this deer got a pass and besides it was probably a yearling and smaller than I like to take. Moving through the woods alone, the dark ear tips, and being alert as it was makes me think it could of been a button buck. As you can see the sound of my camera tipped it off that not all was well in the woods. Had I been focused on sound coming from a different direction this deer might have passed unnoticed.The best scope will vary based on where you're hunting. Hunting conditions in dense forest condition will let for a hunter to use a scope with a lower power range than one used out west in more open conditions.
My .02
I need a decent scope for my new tikka it’s not gonna be a long range rifle as I’ve never shot over 140 yards but one day I might stretch that to 300 but I have no interest shooting farther than that at any animal. I’ve been looking at vortex, leupold, and athlon, and recently, bushnell. Let know what you think. Also buying used wouldn’t hurt my feelings thanks.These pictures illustrate the challenge of hunting in a fairly wooded environment with or without a rifle scope. If this deer had been running you would have had as much luck hitting this deer with a bullet that was thrown as one that was fired. Notice as the magnification increases you can start to see the bush between me and the target. The trees and brush can make a deer hard to see, and as Talyn pointed out turning up the power on the scope doesn't always give an advantage. As it was, this wasn't a doe day so this deer got a pass and besides it was probably a yearling and smaller than I like to take. Moving through the woods alone, the dark ear tips, and being alert as it was makes me think it could of been a button buck telescopie. As you can see the sound of my camera tipped it off that not all was well in the woods. Had I been focused on sound coming from a different direction this deer might have passed unnoticed.
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Never hunted, sorryAfter 50 years of rifle hunting I got my first two scoped rifles last year. A .22 mag Savage for coyotes and a .243 Savage for deer. Got a few yotes with the 22 but my deer was with .357 mag revokver as normal.
Why be sorry? Not every one hunts. The thread is about hunting however which would explain the responses about hunting.Never hunted, sorry
Bought a nice scope yesterday, going to test it out on SaturdayHello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled "Best Rifle Scope for Deer Hunting" and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/best-rifle-scope-for-deer-hunting/.
What kind of scope ?Bought a nice scope yesterday, going to test it out on Saturday