You said 4-5x BB bro, not 4-5x the raise.

What you were trying to say is "Raise to 0.80 or 1.00" but you actually said "Raise to 0.40 or 0.50". And I'm saying I agree with Fnord, you either raise up to between $1.30 and $2.00 to thin the field, or you flatcall and hope to flop a monster.

In this case with something like AJo or AQo I'm more inclined to complete the action preflop, and see a good cheap flop getting great odds then trying to make a crazy raise OOP to thin the field.

If you want to lower the raise amount, $1.25-$1.75 is probably a good range. But you have to go higher than $0.80-$1.00 if you actually want to get any of the cold callers out.