Lockdown wrote:Wrangler95 wrote: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!