I'm looking for a scope for a future hunt that will be very close shooting. It needs to be the lowest power possible and be of good quality.
Thanks for your help.

There are tons of high quality red dots. With those, you get what you pay for, some are very high priced.

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Originally posted by Wildlife Artist:
I'm looking for a scope for a future hunt that will be very close shooting. It needs to be the lowest power possible and be of good quality.
Thanks for your help.

I'm a low power fan too, and bought a Leupold VX-7 in 1.5-6x power range. The image is excellent. I do hear great things about the Swarovski Z-6 in that same power range, but I've never looked through one so I can't cmt.
The image from the VX-7 I have is better than any other scope I compared it to. But, I have not done any comparing to other high end European scopes like Zeiss. It does trump all other Leupolds.

Don

Don

Swarovski makes the new Z6 1-6x24 which has a real 1,0 magnifition. Awesome scope! You will love it, but it has its price...

NightForce also has a true 1 power scope. The reason the "real" or "true" 1 power is important is that your shooting eye and non-shooting eye are seeing the same magnification of the image. Other 1x scopes might really be 1.2 or 1.3 power.

The swaro and NightForce are going to be very good but spendy

Burris makes a 1x.

George

The Leupold VariX-III 1.5-5 has an awesome field of view - at 1.5 you can see your barrel in the scope - and is clear, rugged and compact.

Meopta also makes a 1.1-4 scope that's great value for the dollar.

There is a nice test/report in the German hunting magazine DWJ 1/2008 on the low powered scopes and the result says "The far winner is Swarovski Z6i 1-6x24..."

If You compare them by yourself, I guess most people will tell you the same if they would make a neutral testing...

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Originally posted by mt Al:
NightForce also has a true 1 power scope. The reason the "real" or "true" 1 power is important is that your shooting eye and non-shooting eye are seeing the same magnification of the image. Other 1x scopes might really be 1.2 or 1.3 power.

The swaro and NightForce are going to be very good but spendy

What problems do you get if shooting say x2 power scope with both eyes open?

I confess I tried a 1.5-6x42mm, and did not like it at x1.5

I found it very off putting being able to see the barrel so clearly in the scope picture.

Even more off putting was the fact that when looking through the scope, the vertical post of my cross hair, did not appear to "line up" or even run parallel with the barrel as it appeared in the site picture! And the scope had been zero'd on the rifle at 100m and checked at 25m and the groups ect were fine..

Regards,

Pete