Back in 1970, when I was attending a university in Germany, I walked into a gun shop and was amazed to see a Model 70 Winchester in .375 H&H for sale on the used gun rack, equipped with an 2.5-8X variable power scope featuring a huge objective lens. When I inquired about the reason for this apparantly incongruous outfit, I was told that it was used for hunting wild boar by moonlight from a "Hochsitz" or free standing elevated blind. I can only assume that this combination was used in the same way and that the scope was chosen not for its powerful magnification, but for the light gathering qualities of the objective lens.
