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If you had $300 dollars no more and no saving more money for something more. What rifle scope would you buy and why?
I am having a 300 win mag done up for me and I want a different scope to top it. I like 3 - 9, 3.5 - 10, 4.5 - 14 type scopes and 40mm or more objective.
I plan to eventually shoot out to 600 maybe 700 yards so the scope magnifications above are just what I like not what I must have. My current scope is a 4-16x42 and it works well out to 700. But I want something new since I am gonna have a new 300 so to speak.
Any reccommendations are appreciated. Again $300 no more.
Kique
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In that price range a VXI Leupold with an LR duplex reticle. Probably a 4-12. Or you could get a VX-I 4-12 with an M1 turret through the custom shop for $360, they're fine scopes if you don't need absolute optical resolution under all circumstances.
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Vortex Viper 3-9x40 with the BDC Dots
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Cant go wrong with the Leupold
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Bushnell 4200 3-9........$265 most places....
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Since you won't commit the extra couple bills for a Leupy 3, I'd get a Nikon Buckmaster and keep the change.
Dollar for dollar I'm totally impressed with Nikon.
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Actually, on reflection, you might try one of the new Redfields and save $140 bucks or so.
I tend to buy my Leupolds either used, on sale, or on closeout and I was frankly shocked to see the VX-I 4-12 listed at 299.99. I hadn't looked at retail prices in several months.
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You won't find a better new scope for under $300 than the 3-9x40 Bushnell Elite 4200. Go to www.opticstalk.com and read all the good reviews on this scope and I think you'll be impressed.
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Enrique,
You have done me a favor. Now let me do one for you. I suggest you put a 4-16X Tasco for less than $100.
This allows a couple hundred for powder, primers, bullets and dies.
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I would probably buy a used Leupold or Conquest in the power range I wanted.
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I would probably buy a used Leupold or Conquest in the power range I wanted.
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VX-I with CDS installed!! Mine is flawless..
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+1, unless you can do some rootin' around and come up with a leftover Conquest 4x32. I know it doesn't meet your magnification or objective size wish list, but MAN, is it a sweet scope. FC
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Kique,
I read GREAT things about the Vortex. But, I don't own one.
I do own a Conquest 3-9x40, and can recommend it over a Leupold, which I also have, the a VX-3 in 1.5-5x. It's a POS as far as I'm concerned.
Don
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Burris FFII, Vortex, Nikon Buckmasters, or one of the new Refields.
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You won't find a better new scope for under $300 than the 3-9x40 Bushnell Elite 4200. Go to www.opticstalk.com and read all the good reviews on this scope and I think you'll be impressed. +1, on par with the VX 3 IMO.
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You won't find a better new scope for under $300 than the 3-9x40 Bushnell Elite 4200. Go to www.opticstalk.com and read all the good reviews on this scope and I think you'll be impressed. +1, on par with the VX 3 IMO. Yep, and a 1 year "No questions asked" refund policy and a lifetime anyone, anywhere, anytime warranty.
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