{"id":1432,"date":"2008-08-06T15:52:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.220.207.152\/~hogonice\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2008-08-06T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:52:38","slug":"more-scoping-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"More Scoping Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Choices Make for Headaches<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a question for the gun nerds. I think I&#8217;ll post it on the <a href='http:\/\/manlygrub.com\/foodfight\/index.php?topic=248.0'target='_blank'>Manly Grub<\/a> forum, too.<\/p>\n<p>How much magnification do you need to be able to see .17 HMR holes in a target 300 yards away?<\/p>\n<p>I was told 10x is all I need, but I would like to avoid using a spotting scope, in the very unlikely event that I am lucky enough to get to shoot at 300 yards.<\/p>\n<p>I have a cheap BSA spotting scope, and I can barely see bullet holes at 100 yards. I&#8217;m better off looking through my rifle scope.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing: would it be crazy to put a Burris Fullfield II 4.5-14x on a .17 HMR rifle? They don&#8217;t have anything between 9 and 14, so 9 and 14 are the choices. I like my current Fullfield II, which goes up to 9. The 4.5-14x costs about as much as the rifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choices Make for Headaches Here&#8217;s a question for the gun nerds. I think I&#8217;ll post it on the Manly Grub forum, too. How much magnification do you need to be able to see .17 HMR holes in a target 300 yards away? I was told 10x is all I need, but I would like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-hunting-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}