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Those are all excellent brands of scopes and I’m a Leupold user myself, so I’m not going to opine on which brand, but…. I would suggest you consider something like a 2-10 or 2-12 for your .375. It’s a cartridge you can shoot effectively out past 300 yards if the situation calls for it and higher magnification can help, especially if you have older eyes. My VX5 is a 2-10 with Firedot reticle and CDS turret. It’s a great combination for me.
Here’s an example of where having higher magnification helped make a critical shot on a special animal…. In February, I had about a 225 yards shot on a Lord Derby Eland, an animal you definitely don’t want to blow your shot on. There were a fair number of limbs and branches covering part of the target about halfway to the Eland. By turning my scope up to 10x I was able to steer clear of some small branches I didn’t see when I first looked through the scope at lower power. I had to aim higher than I would have at a lower power and was able to drop the eland in his tracks, right where he was standing. Had I shot lower where I was intending, I likely would have wounded my eland and perhaps lost it.
Here’s an example of where having higher magnification helped make a critical shot on a special animal…. In February, I had about a 225 yards shot on a Lord Derby Eland, an animal you definitely don’t want to blow your shot on. There were a fair number of limbs and branches covering part of the target about halfway to the Eland. By turning my scope up to 10x I was able to steer clear of some small branches I didn’t see when I first looked through the scope at lower power. I had to aim higher than I would have at a lower power and was able to drop the eland in his tracks, right where he was standing. Had I shot lower where I was intending, I likely would have wounded my eland and perhaps lost it.
