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Favorite Scopes
Marshal Thunder
Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
What's your favorite budget scope? (i.e. $100 or less)
What's your favorite mid-range scope ($101-300)
What's your favorite top-end scope ($301 plus)
What is it you especially like about your favorite brand & model?
cowboy shooter/tactical
What's your favorite mid-range scope ($101-300)
What's your favorite top-end scope ($301 plus)
What is it you especially like about your favorite brand & model?
cowboy shooter/tactical
Comments
2.Burris
3.Leupold
Without the NRA, the second ammendment would already be gone!
I don't have any favorite budjet scopes, so I'll go with the mid range and the top end.
Bausch & Lomb 4200
and Schmidt & Bender or Zeiss, tough call between these these two.
I know these are pretty pricey, but if you buy the best once, you don't have to buy the lesser more than once.
"If All Else Fails, Read The Directions"
I use Leupold and redfield low-pros
Read one of the members quotes:
"A good gun with a junk scope is just junk"
or something like that. That should sum it up.........
coonass
We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
"A great rifle with a junk scope,.....is junk."
Sorry JustC but, I was close.............
coonass
We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
2)leupold
3)leupold
Leupold 3.5-10x40AO
Leupold 3.5-10x40AO
The Williams never fogs up in stormy weather and the price is right.
The Leupolds never need service and meet all my demands from medium range to long range shooting. Zero never changes regardless of the conditions or rough treatment for either Williams or Leupold. This comes from personal experience over many years of less than idea conditions.
For cheaper scopes, (I can't beleive I'm going to even suggest one, but,..) the bushnell trophy wide angle w/amber coated optics is a great scope for about $80. It is still about the only cheap one in the safe. I have one on a built-up 10/22 and it is more than sufficient for any tree rat situation I have encountered. I would not put it on anything capable of 200yds plus though.
Mid range,....tough one here! Maybe one of the new leupolds or the burris fullfield. However, there is an alternative,......buy a used top end burris or leupold from the GB auctions. Now you have $300 in it, but it is a $500-$600 scope.
Top end,.....depends on rifle purpose. If It were on one of the rifles which I don't carry up and down the trees and over the river and through the woods, (15-20lbs) then I like tactical scopes with adjustments on the knobs, not under the caps or target knobs. I like to just reach up and dial my clicks. That being said,....Leupold mark IV or Night Force, or Schmidt and Bender. For Good hunting guns capable of long distance, but that won't be shot from the rest, Burris Signature/Black diamond (either one), Leupold long range, zeiss, swarovski.
A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.
I use tasco world class scopes on my rifles and shotguns. Never had a problem, and have never had the need or desire for an exspensive scope.
However, it could be a case of not knowing what your missing-I dont think I have ever even looked through the scopes mentioned.
For the hunting and target shooting I do, Tasco world class is fine for me.
"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
-James Madison
Tasco makes a damn good scope for the money.
I have a 5-20x50 on my Savage 112FV and I like it a lot.
Their Titan line of 30mm tubes are going to be hard to beat for the money.
Burris Fullfield II
Tasco World Class
Only a rich man can afford a cheap scope.
The most important things, Are not things.