Realtree’s Cole Barthel is hunting late-season whitetails in Oklahoma, along with Reuben Aleckson of Vortex Optics. In a place like Oklahoma, rifle hunters should be prepared for a variety of shooting scenarios, from 50-yard shots in cottonwood drainages to 450-yard pokes at bucks tending does in the open prairie and irrigated crop fields. Barthel and Aleckson each detail their riflescope setups.

Aleckson is shooting the new Vortex Razor HD Gen III 4-24x44, which is a First Focal Plane scope that provides an incredible range of magnification and the light-gathering benefits of a 34mm tube, but in a handy, compact package that’s ideal for deer hunting. Barthel is using the Vortex Razor HD LHT 3-15x50, a classic, premium Second Focal Plane hunting scope with an illuminated MRAD reticle and optional custom turrets to precisely match your favorite hunting load. The hunters then take to the field where — spoiler alert! — tags are punched on some big Okie whitetails.