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Maybe this sounds dumb but I’ve always thought a varmint or target rifle only looked right with a big scope on it. Something about a 24” bull barrel just cries out for a 14-25 x 62 or whatever. Any thoughts?
i have and use several 2.5x8 leupolds along with two 3.5x10 leupolds,s that fit 99% of my hunting needs. I think other scope brands along these power lines that suit you would be ok too.
..............Doesn't sound dumb to me; but I would call it traditional and classic. Years ago a lot of varmint & target rifles had scopes that were very big physically even though they didn't have the big magnification that some of today's scopes offer. Big, long, scopes, some of which had external adjustments. Stuff like the old Bausch & Lomb and Unertl , among others, target scopes with external adjustments were once considered "state of the art" and were considered necessary for a first class varmint / target rig. I grew up drooling over stuff like that and although I never owned one of those classic target scopes, a physically large scope looks like it belongs on a varmint / target rifle. Got a 1960's vintage Leupold 12x that's pretty long on a Mod. 700BDL Varmint Special and a 6-18x Leupold target scope on a Ruger Mod. 77 MK II Target Rifle with a 4" sunshade extension screwed into the objective lens bell to give it that (to me, anyway), long, old school, retro, varmint / target coolness factor. Like Loon Wulf said; " big, heavy guns LOOK more aesthetically pleasing with larger scopes".Maybe this sounds dumb but I’ve always thought a varmint or target rifle only looked right with a big scope on it. Something about a 24” bull barrel just cries out for a 14-25 x 62 or whatever. Any thoughts?