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I have to scratch my head as you seem to now be saying something different. In your quote above you appear to be saying higher magnification is good in all situations including up close so you can see any intervening shrubbery. Well that was my take on it, obviously I was wrong.

As a few of us have mentioned open sights with degrading eyesight just does not work well. This is why I have Aimpoints and low magnification variables on my larger, for me, calibres.

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I'm still not sure how you took it that way but I'll bow to a jury trial of my peers if my verbiage is in violation.

If it is, it sure wouldn't be the first time.

As an aside...I shoot a lot of varmints (ground squirrels for coyote bait). I handload for 12 bore and shoot a lot w/ that in thick brush where I've had issues with .223 bullets breaking up before they hit the critter. These are close shots. I carry a small pair of 8x Zeiss binocs w/ me as often the squirrels can't be seen with the naked eye as I'm stalking thru growing plantations. I glass the area, locate a rat and then resume with the shotgun. In this case a scope on the shotgun would be handy. TOTAL off topic drift, but FWIW...