Seems to come up a lot in threads here and other places and just in good ol deer camp talk . Here's a one eyed boys take on it , chime in with your opinions .
First I have owned scopes from the give away type , to the bury me with that scope in my coffin quality
The perceived need for more magnification comes at a pretty steep price almost Always ...Now I'm no talking about SB/Night force/March type stuff that cost as much or Way more than a New Impact . I'm talking about the scopes most mortals buy and use . If you pick a price point and decide you " Have " to have the 14-85 power scope and it is selling for the amazing price of 260 dollars . Guess what ? Its gonna be like looking thru a car windshield that's been wiped down with Vaseline and spitoon juice . There is NO WAY to make a reliable , high quality , repeatable , good optic product that will withstand recoil for that price . There just isn't ...Scopes , and I mean every scope has limitations on what it can resolve optically . If you magnify these flaws past a certain point what you are actually looking at becomes a deteriorated sight picture . Its just a fact of what you are trying to achieve with super high magnification.
Given the limitations though a slightly lower powered scope is always going to be clearer and causes a hell of a lot less eyestrain . I go to our local shooting range and guys are shooting 8-32 and 10-40 power stuff and so on . When they take a break and come over to look at my stuff I almost always here the same comment ..." Wow that's a clear scope "!!! When actually its usually in the same price range as the scope they use just at a power range that doesn't test the upper end of the design .
There's a reason the March scopes can fetch the prices they ask ..They do Everything well , and for those prices they should and do . But for the rest of us the perceived " need " is just that a perception .
Give yourself a break and realize that the pellet rifle you are shooting isn't capable of shooting one hole groups much past 50 yards no matter how BadAss it is . Wouldn't you rather see a higher quality sight picture ?
Remember the really large rear projection TV sets from years ago ? Big screen and bad picture . Its a lot like that . But like I said its my opinion . What's yours ?
First I have owned scopes from the give away type , to the bury me with that scope in my coffin quality
The perceived need for more magnification comes at a pretty steep price almost Always ...Now I'm no talking about SB/Night force/March type stuff that cost as much or Way more than a New Impact . I'm talking about the scopes most mortals buy and use . If you pick a price point and decide you " Have " to have the 14-85 power scope and it is selling for the amazing price of 260 dollars . Guess what ? Its gonna be like looking thru a car windshield that's been wiped down with Vaseline and spitoon juice . There is NO WAY to make a reliable , high quality , repeatable , good optic product that will withstand recoil for that price . There just isn't ...Scopes , and I mean every scope has limitations on what it can resolve optically . If you magnify these flaws past a certain point what you are actually looking at becomes a deteriorated sight picture . Its just a fact of what you are trying to achieve with super high magnification.
Given the limitations though a slightly lower powered scope is always going to be clearer and causes a hell of a lot less eyestrain . I go to our local shooting range and guys are shooting 8-32 and 10-40 power stuff and so on . When they take a break and come over to look at my stuff I almost always here the same comment ..." Wow that's a clear scope "!!! When actually its usually in the same price range as the scope they use just at a power range that doesn't test the upper end of the design .
There's a reason the March scopes can fetch the prices they ask ..They do Everything well , and for those prices they should and do . But for the rest of us the perceived " need " is just that a perception .
Give yourself a break and realize that the pellet rifle you are shooting isn't capable of shooting one hole groups much past 50 yards no matter how BadAss it is . Wouldn't you rather see a higher quality sight picture ?
Remember the really large rear projection TV sets from years ago ? Big screen and bad picture . Its a lot like that . But like I said its my opinion . What's yours ?
