Scope Advice!

[Wrangler95]

Thank all of you for the great advice.I will be shooting a Remington 700 25-06 with 85 grain bullets!I have a Luepold 3x9 scope on it now but some of the fields I will be hunting are river bottoms with long shots.For shots in the 300 to 400 yard shots and I am only hunting coyotes.Would a variable scope in 4x12 power be sufficent?Thanks again!

My man!! I shoot a 25-06 too. I have a 3.5x10 Leupold VXIII on mine. I would think a 4x12 for coyotes would be fine. My 3.5x10 works good, but if I was consistently expecting those longer shots I would absolutely get a 12 or 14 power. The reason I didn’t go higher is I didn’t want to have a close range shot at a moving target with too high of magnification. Sometimes the advertised minimum 4 power is actually higher than that. I think my advertised 3.5 min is actually lower than that, and a 4x12 min was a little above 4.

That is great,I use the 25-06 for varmits and deer!

[Wrangler95]

Here's a link to a great forum for anything optical-related:

http://www.opticstalk.com/
Very helpful bunch of guys there.

SWFA is the company that owns/operates that Forum.
I've done business with them with great satisfaction (in the past). Still the same owners so I expect they're still good.
They also buy and sell used firearms and scopes if you want to trade up.

Thank You for the link!

[KRONIIK]

You're welcome!
Don't hesitate to register, log in and ask questions.
If the site is anything like it used to be a few years ago, you'll get more good advice than you'll know what to do with.

I see that a lot of the good, old "Regular posters" are still there.

[KoyoteKarl]

Been really happy with my vortex viper pst 4-16x50. They make a 5-25 now... That might be even sweeter, but 4-16 is plenty for yotes out to 500.

You'll spend 95% of your time at 4x anyways.