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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: Big Bore]
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12/11/18 09:52 PM
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Personally, I love the "Hubbell" rifle scopes. Yes, I pay a 10-12 oz weight penalty for the 56 mm lens. But, I can shoot hogs on a greenfield with a quarter moon on a clear night, and I can judge a deer at 7 am on a cloudy drizzly morning.
That 15x comes in mighty handy if I have to shoot through a gap, or a long way off, but I can also dial down to 3x for close, dark, or wooded shots.
I'll just buy rifles that are lighter to make up for it.
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: UncleHuck]
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12/11/18 10:08 PM
12/11/18 10:08 PM
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257wbymag
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Personally, I love the "Hubbell" rifle scopes. Yes, I pay a 10-12 oz weight penalty for the 56 mm lens. But, I can shoot hogs on a greenfield with a quarter moon on a clear night, and I can judge a deer at 7 am on a cloudy drizzly morning.
That 15x comes in mighty handy if I have to shoot through a gap, or a long way off, but I can also dial down to 3x for close, dark, or wooded shots.
I'll just buy rifles that are lighter to make up for it.
I'll agree here.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: 257wbymag]
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12/11/18 10:25 PM
12/11/18 10:25 PM
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Personally, I love the "Hubbell" rifle scopes. Yes, I pay a 10-12 oz weight penalty for the 56 mm lens. But, I can shoot hogs on a greenfield with a quarter moon on a clear night, and I can judge a deer at 7 am on a cloudy drizzly morning.
That 15x comes in mighty handy if I have to shoot through a gap, or a long way off, but I can also dial down to 3x for close, dark, or wooded shots.
I'll just buy rifles that are lighter to make up for it.
I'll agree here. Not saying higher magnification or light transmission are not good for some circumstances, but for woods hunting there's absolutely no need for 15x or even 10x magnification. A 3x9x40 is plenty for a 200 or 300 yard shot on a greenfield. For 500 yard pokes on open farmland, yep, 15x or 20 X is nice.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
Molon Labe
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: Big Bore]
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12/11/18 10:27 PM
12/11/18 10:27 PM
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257wbymag
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Well my 15x dials down to 3x. I don't hunt woods much. But if I do I can dial it to 3x easily
Last edited by 257wbymag; 12/11/18 10:28 PM.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: Big Bore]
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12/11/18 11:09 PM
12/11/18 11:09 PM
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.257wbymag,
I don’t believe these boys have seen the Z6! So yes. Like .257 said, lots of scopes give low to high options. My longest shot in 40+ years of hunting in Alabama was 395 yards. That’s a long way but I will be the first to admit that if a buck is 100+ yards out, I dial it up!!! So I am a Hubble guy. Bring on the 3x70x100 in the 60mm tube!!!
Hunting brings out the worst in people.
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: 257wbymag]
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12/12/18 06:18 AM
12/12/18 06:18 AM
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UncleHuck
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Well my 15x dials down to 3x. I don't hunt woods much. But if I do I can dial it to 3x easily My sentiments exactly.
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: 257wbymag]
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12/12/18 06:34 AM
12/12/18 06:34 AM
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Well my 15x dials down to 3x. I don't hunt woods much. But if I do I can dial it to 3x easily I know you understand how to use the dial, but I've met more than one hunter in Alabama who did not. They also have no understanding of magnification and how it affects the exit pupil size and the amount of light transmitted to the eye.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
Molon Labe
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: JohnnyLoco]
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12/12/18 11:16 AM
12/12/18 11:16 AM
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Thats sure might be the winning combo Only thing that would make that better would for it to be chambered in 308 or 358Win. Be a damn fine setup for most of AL.
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: just_an_illusion]
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12/12/18 12:18 PM
12/12/18 12:18 PM
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Thats sure might be the winning combo Only thing that would make that better would for it to be chambered in 308 or 358Win. Be a damn fine setup for most of AL. Nope. Doesn't have a super duper Hubble elite on top.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: just_an_illusion]
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12/12/18 03:56 PM
12/12/18 03:56 PM
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Thats sure might be the winning combo Only thing that would make that better would for it to be chambered in 308 or 358Win. Be a damn fine setup for most of AL. There ain’t nuthin in Alabama that a 22magnum won’t work on, a 243 is more than fine.
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Re: Best All Around Deer Rifle for Alabama
[Re: JohnnyLoco]
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12/14/18 09:20 PM
12/14/18 09:20 PM
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just_an_illusion
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Thats sure might be the winning combo Only thing that would make that better would for it to be chambered in 308 or 358Win. Be a damn fine setup for most of AL. There ain’t nuthin in Alabama that a 22magnum won’t work on, a 243 is more than fine. Up here in these hill and hollars I want something thats more apt to dropping one in his tracks. Killed several with a 243 and found them all but I like the chances of a DRT better with a 308. A 358Win ups the anty even more UP HERE.
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