Choosing The Right Scope & Mount

FEW hunters choose the rifle to match the scope, but there might be occasions when this makes more sense. Frankly, I’m often dismayed about the direction - or lack of direction - of today’s scope buying public as well as some of the recommendations of some inexperienced counterjumpers in gunshops.

If rifle and scope are mismatched, it can cause big problems for the shooter. Once I got a letter from a youngster who had bought a handy Winchester Model 94 in .30-30 - a sensible choice for snap shooting pigs on the western property where he works. He then went on to tell me that the guy in the gunshop had talked him into topping it off with a lovely 6-18x scope! He was advised that since this was the most expensive scope on the dealer’s shelf, it had to be the best. But for what? Pigs? You gotta