A month ago a friend asked me to help set her husband up with his first hunting rifle. She was worried that he was listening to "the morons at work", and wanted to make sure he got sound advice. He's on a budget, so after some digging, I found a '70's vintage M70 in .308. It's not terribly pretty, but very sound, and nice and smooth. Now I need to scope it. I was originally thinking about a Vari-XII 3-9X, or maybe a 2-7X/2.5-8x, but then I started thinking about a fixed 6X, or maybe even a 4X. Simple and rugged are good.
Anyone care to weigh in? Budget is $150-200.
