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What are your applications with said scope? Strictly long range shooting?
^This was basically my next comment. A charging bear at 20 feet with 12X is not something I want to experience lolThis right here.
If you ever hunt with it and jump an animal up close?
Ya. Even with the 12 power all your gona see is hair!
I walk around the woods with my scope on 6 power or less.
If he's to far out for that, then I have time to zoom up.
^This was basically my next comment. A charging bear at 20 feet with 12X is not something I want to experience lol
It would be very blurry hair, with all of these scopes listed. The focus/parallax setting is very touchy on these. The true beauty of these SWFA SS rifle scopes is their spot on tracking and robustness. The quality of glass is alright, but you get what you pay for there. It's not a zeiss or Swarovski. I will say, I settled on a 16x for my application and it works great from 50 yards all the way out to 800. However, I would not use it for my normal hunting. Now if I were hunting where I knew my shots were going to be long, I'd use it without hesitation. I put in for some units, where I know the shots are going to be 600+ yards. You typically have all the time in the world to range an animal and adjust your parallax. Hunting in the woods, where ranges could be close and there's no way I'd use any of the scopes listed. For target shooting at the ranges given by the op, any of them would work.This right here.
If you ever hunt with it and jump an animal up close?
Ya. Even with the 12 power all your gona see is hair!
I walk around the woods with my scope on 6 power or less.
If he's to far out for that, then I have time to zoom up.
Go with the 12. I tried a 16x SS, wasn't impressed. Light transmission so-so, small field of view, and mirage
got really noticeable.
So don't buy a 10 grand rifle?What ever the amount you spent on your firearm, you need to spend 2 to 3 times as much on the optic, Period
That's the problem with optics questions. What works best for some, doesn't work well enough for another. For 500 yards, I'd like at least a 14.5x and even up to 20x. The reason I bought the 16x. I'm also happy with the 16x, as it's easy to get behind, offers pretty good clear glass, tracks very well and has a good reticle. I plan on keeping it on my new 6.5 creedmoor, as it does everything I need it to do. I've sent many expensive scopes down the road, that just didn't make the cut.The 12x would do steel and would be about the most magnification I'd use at those ranges.
That used to work 20 years ago, but times are changing in the scope manufacturing world.Here is the rule of wisdom for optics that will seldom do wrong for you.
What ever the amount you spent on your firearm, you need to spend 2 to 3 times as much on the optic, Period
Dilemma solved.
+20...That used to work 20 years ago, but times are changing in the scope manufacturing world.