Which scope to buy?

[bigcloud]

Want to start coyote hunting..... I just picked up a Browning X-bolt 22-250 rifle. I was thinking about a Nikon Coyote Special 4.5-14 scope with side focus. I see they are now discontinued and the new Nikon replacement is a Coyote Special 4-12 NO side focus. I can still buy either scope. Hunting mostly MN. Wonder why they dropped the one with side focus... to slow in the field?

Any thoughts on what to get?

Thanks

[PurpleFloyd]

I bought the 4.5x14 Coyote Special when they first came out for my Model 7 in .17 Fireball. Personally I have not gotten the time I would like to spend with it and haven't found the need to use the side focus but it would seem it would be better to have it and not need it than to not have it and be in a situation where you could use it.

[169Sportsman]

If you are going to night hunt you may want to go with something that has less magnification. Lower power gathers more light in the dark and is more useful than the high powers. I have a Nikon monarch 2.5 - 10 x 50mm and have had pretty good luck with it. It is slightly blurry past 100 yards or so but not too bad. I was able to shoot at a coyote at 300 in the dark and could see it just fine. Unfortunately. Shot just over it( could see the bullet mark in the snow the next day).