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It gave me extra magnification to place such a precise shot and thickened the reticle enough to see it (amazingly I could still see even at that magnification). So I had to turn up the scope from about 6 power to 10 or 12 which did two things. She was standing between two trees with her body facing straight at me and the only shot I had was straight on where the neck meets the chest. However the doe had walked back up in the woods on the other side of the food plot where it was even darker. I picked up the rifle and amazingly I could still see through the scope. I was very confident that she was a good sized doe so I decided to try to take a shot. After watching the deer for several minutes, I knew which one was the large mama doe because she was the one with her nose in the air and staring at me even though she couldn't she me. I kept looking with the binos to try to pick the largest doe and avoid shooting a button buck but it had gotton so late it was not far from pitch black in the woods. I moved slowly behind a tree and used it as a rifle rest.
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The wind was blowing my scent right to the deer and they were on point. I got about half way there when the deer reappeared. It was already after 5pm so I had to hurry but the wind kept changing directions which made it difficult to slip up to the food plot undetected. After they had gotten spooked the second time, I had a feeling that they would return, so I decided to get down and try to get in position for a shot. About 6-8 doe were in the food plot and kept getting spooked by something and then returning after about 15 minutes. That afternoon, I was hunting on the edge of a power line and I could see a small food plot about 250 in the woods. The property manager had asked us to shoot several doe that day because we were way behing on quota. I am extremely careful when selecting a doe and had passed numerous chances for fear of shooting a button buck. I took my super grade with the S&B on it and we were trying to shoot a few doe because we had way too many. One day a friend went hunting with me and could not get his rifle so I let him borrow my Kimber. I felt like I could see a little better with my binos than with my scope which is to be expected. I used Swarovski 2.5-10x42 along side my Leica binos and over time had a pretty good idea what the scope was capable of. I also felt that the S&B reticle could be seen later because it was slightly thicker. I gave the S&B a slight advantage optically but looking across a field near dark, it was hard to tell much difference. I compared it numerous times to my S&B side by side on numerous occasions. I used the Kimber most of the year and this was my first Swaro scope. The Browning I used for muzzleloader season, it is legal in Mississippi. I have a Swarovski 2.5-10x42 on my Kimber 300 WSM, Swarovki 1.5-6x42 on a Browning 1885 45-70, and a S&B 3-12x42 on a Winchester super grade 300 WSM. The majority of my hunting season last year was with the Swarovskis and a few hunts with my Schmidt & Bender.
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For the record I have a Leupold Vari-XIII, Zeiss conquest, Zeiss VMV, Schmidt & Bender, and last year purchased 2 Swarovski PHs. I apologize for the length of this post but I want to provide my opinion from some real hunting situations that I experieced with these scopes and I wanted to be detailed.