This is a question we get asked a lot and for good reason.There are a lot of different scopes and brands to choose from. There are so many scopes, rings and bases that it causes product over load for some people.

A lot of it depends on what animal you're going to be hunting and how long of a shot you're planning on taking. If you're planning on hunting whitetail deer 80% of the time and where your average shot might be 50-200 yards at most, then you wouldn't need a long range scope a simple 3x9 scope would be perfect and more than enough. If you're hunting antelope in the desert or across the plains then a long range scope might be more appropriate.

Back in the day and even now the average deer rifle used to always have a 3x9 scope mounted to it, and for good reason. Three power is just low enough, with enough light transmission and field of view for close shots in most situations, and nine power gives you more than enough magnification for longer shots. A good majority of people now want to choose scopes for whitetail deer with very high magnifications of fourteen, or twenty, or even more. This is, more often than not, a mistake. Less is more.

What this does is the higher magnification subtracts from your available light, the low end of a high magnification scope is too high to take a very close shot. Your scope on a whitetail rifle should almost always in most situations be kept at its lowest power. If that power happens to be five or six, many times your deer, only yards away, appears as a hairy patch through your scope, which I'm sure has happened to most of us one time or another. Or your field of view is so narrow you can't find him, or it's so dark you can't make him out.

We know that this answer is broad that's why we recommend contacting us and asking for advice if you have any doubts at all about which scope is best for you. It really does depend on where you're going to be hunting most of the time and what animal you're mostly going to be hunting.

Please feel free to contact us by email or by phone toll free at 877-610-4810 and we'll be happy to recommend a scope that would best fit your needs.