
At least you went and looked.
To hit things all you need to be able to do is place the aiming reference over the center of the target. Front half of a cat and you believe that isn’t enough fir a big game scope?
Without issue one cam aim at and center a 1” dot at 100 yards with a SWFA SS 6x. That means a 10” target at 1,000 yards can also be centered.
We had a 6x SWFA set up a couple years ago in the evening aiming at deer with a group that believed that 6x was useless for distance. After playing with it everyone of them said they could shoot the deer in the head if they wanted.
Coues deer hunting how some do it, falls into the specialized category to me. That’s the one hunting I’ve done and seen that resembles more a PRS match than traditional spot and stalk western hunting. As a general purpose rifle scope from close to true medium range hunting 6-10x top end is fine. For Coues I would have a dedicated rifle setup.