Olympus
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10 minutes of the last legal hunting light tonight and big deer comes out on the opposite side of the food plot I'm hunting, about 200-250 yards. I know it's a big deer because all I can see at that distance is a head with horns on top! I'm hunting the opposite side of the food plot, about 50 yards in the woods. I put my rifle up and look through the scope to get a better view of the rack and the dang scope is focusing on the limbs and leaves between me and the deer! I can still easily see the deer, but he's not in focus in the scope, he's cloudy and out of focus. The scope is Vortex Copperhead 4-12x40 and I had the power set at 6. I cranked the power down to 4x and looked again, still the same. Leaves and limbs are sharp and clear as a bell and the deer is still out of focus. I decide to go the other way and I crank the scope up to 9x. That made it even worse. I could see all the little details on the limbs and leave between me and the deer and the deer was still out of focus. The deer kept walking toward me and got to about 90 yards and stopped and put his head down to graze. I had the gun up on 6x again and I had the crosshairs on the top of his neck, but he was still so out of focus in the scope. I decided that since he was still walking toward me, to hold off on what I thought was a less than ideal shot, and to let him keep walking closer. I thought once he walked into the woods on my side, he would be within 50 yards and I wouldn't have a problem with the scope wanting to focus on something closer. He walked to a spot that was blocked by a tree that still had leaves and I never saw or heard him again. I have no idea where he went, but he just disappeared. I sat until full dark before climbing down from my stand. As I climbed down, I never heard him run off or anything. I had a long ride home wondering what the heck happened with my scope.