And the 6.5 creedmoor. Sorry, that is the camp I have decided to support. I decided to give my kids .300BO, but I REALLY, REALLY like the Creedmoor...but I bought my oldest daughter a .260REM for hunting, and the other two brats are getting .300BOs. If my other two want to hunt elk/moose, and are not impressed with the .300BO the Creedmoor is there for them.
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I haven't had the opportunity to compare those aspects side by side. However, I will say that in my experience (hunting deer in the N. GA woods and shooting 3gun) the whole idea that "I either run the scope on 1X or max mag" is SEVERELY flawed.
I've watched guys flat out miss (like, didn't even shoot at them) targets at 75yds because they had their Razor dialed up to 6X.
We need to break this mentality that magnification = distance. That's only a part of the puzzle. What magnification really equals is precision. Further, it equals providing the shooter with an acceptable enough sight picture to identify the target and place the round as precisely as he needs to. Whether it's an eyeball at 47 yds (as Pressburg says) or a torso at 600yds.
Because of this, I'm a huge fan of FFP in an LPVO. The holds are always right. Furthermore, if I have a center aiming dot that is too large/coarse for the shot I need to make, I can shrink it down a bit with a FFP optic. I can't do that with a SFP. I'm stuck with whatever the MFR gave me.
As far as 1X goes, the scope absolutely needs to be workable. Both the NX8 and the Kahles are definitely workable on 1X with or without illumination. As to how much more or less workable they are than each other, that's probably very shooter dependent.
How much variation do we see in preference of pistol sights (FO vs tritium, wide vs narrow rear, wide vs narrow front, black vs painted, U-notch vs square, etc). We should expect to see similar preferences in optics. It's just tougher because we're talking a $1,500-2,000 scope instead of a $150 set of sights. At the same time, there are some "clues."
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So for the 1-X optic proponents, what's the "budget" FFP go-to?
I believe Defoor is a proponent of FFP, but then turns around and suggests the Vortex as the budget option, which is SFP? Unless I missed something...