A decent 4 - 16X scope is in the $200 - $250 range. Imagine the quality that could be built into a $250 fixed power 16X! Better glass, parallax could be engineered to be exact, and strong enough to hold up under ANY recoil.
I'm not a fan of variable power rifle scopes, changing power adds another variable to run through my little pea brain when I want to hit somethingMost my scopes set at about half power.
Well here you go:https://www.opticsplanet.com/riflescopes.html?_iv_gridSize=240&_iv_parent-minimum-magnification=10-x&_iv_parent-maximum-magnification=10-xI did not know that Hawke makes one... -Y
Quote from: Yogi on November 24, 2021, 02:11:02 PMWell here you go:https://www.opticsplanet.com/riflescopes.html?_iv_gridSize=240&_iv_parent-minimum-magnification=10-x&_iv_parent-maximum-magnification=10-xI did not know that Hawke makes one... -YHmmmmm. That link doesn't take me to what I expected it too. Nothing fixed power any way
Quote from: Mark Davis on November 24, 2021, 12:49:53 PMI'm not a fan of variable power rifle scopes, changing power adds another variable to run through my little pea brain when I want to hit somethingMost my scopes set at about half power.That is why "pea brains" such as you should get a First focal Plane scope. -Y
Bob,Yeah, learned those lessons a number of years ago, a couple of them the hard way. I don't use anything over 16x with my air rifles. And the vast majority of my shooting is in good light at paper targets. I understand why you don't see much fixed power at higher magnifications. I just was curious how many folks really used the variable powers much at all. Just an old guy thinking out loud.I used to belong to a gun club that had an underground 100 yard range made using concrete pipe. The target area was brightly lit and you could see it well even with a 24x scope I was using. But finding the target was hard even at lower magnification. Then when I cranked it up to 24x if you even twitched the scope you lost the picture. It got aggravating some times.
Ron,Your eyes are apparently better than mine. I don't care for the really high magnifications and the factors they introduce either. But I do like something in the neighborhood of 12-16x as a top end.Using a variable for hunting I have found that if you take advantage of the greater field of view at the lower magnification and then crank up the magnification for a better picture you often have to refind the target so the wide fov didn't really help. Even for hunting I tend to leave the magnification at a single setting.