Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Would you choose a Tasco 3.5-10x50 for your #1 deer rifle?

No. I would choose a Tasco 4-16X40.

Seafire

+1,
Back when I was 17 I bought a M70 (PF) in 270. It took me most of a year working at between .65 to $1.00/hr part time to eventually pay off that lay away (about $110). Hunting season was coming up and I did not have time to save up for a Weaver K4. I bought a SPI (Scientific Precision Instruments, Japan) 4X for $17 and went hunting. I shot that 270 a lot (learned to hand load)and bagged game. Didn't replace that scope until 1995 and still have it on a 22. The simple fact is, it worked, brightest - no way but I didn't miss any shots because I couldn't see.

I was actually trying, but obviously failed, to throw a little tongue in cheek humor into this thread.

It was never my intention to offend anyone, but if anybody wants to feel offended by anything that I wrote, that is certainly OK with me.

You know as well as I do that there are a lot of optics snobs around, but I am certainly not 1 of them. Of the 200 or so scopes that I have around, only about 40% of them are Leupolds and less than 10% are European, with the remain 100 or so being a mix from B&L, Bushnell, Herters, Lyman, Nikon, Pentex, Redfield (Denver), Refield (not Denver), Remington, Sightron, Simmons, Tasco, Unertl, Weaver (El Paso), and Weaver (not El Paso).

Unlike you, I have not owned a lot of Tascos and currently only have 1, a Japanese WA27X32 that is mounted on a Sears 3-T 22 semi-auto. I have shot it some and it seems to work fine.

I have been, and continue to be, a fan of the Simmons 3.5-10x40 Whitetail Classics that were made in the Philippines and which Natchez Shooters Supply has been selling for about $60 for the past couple of years. I have recommended them to folks on a tight budget or folks who are looking for a scope for a non-critical application. I have 12 of them myself and you can't get much less "snobby" than by using a $300 Marlin X gun with a $60 scope installed via $5 rings.

Jeff

Jeff,

I had zero intentions of painting you as a Scope snob or any other type of snob...if it came across remotely as that, please accept an apology from me....

My point is that we all would love to have Mercedes Benz quality stuff in our lives...but plenty of us have to make due with the equivalent of a rusty 10 year old Subaru style quality...

I have a couple of budget scopes from Natchez also, on Varmint Rifles ( 223s)...the glass is plenty good enough for seeing a sage rat at 200 to 250 yds....and a 223 loaded to 22 Hornet speeds in a Ruger VT on Rem Varmint rifle, isn't going to recoil enough to hurt even the cheapest scope...

I admit to becoming a scope snob, when it comes to a BSA or Barska Scope...now we are talking 'what a POS'...

but I know guys who use them also, and have good luck with them..
me, not so much...gave them to kids to put on their 22s, and the young men each thought they had hit the lottery, they were so happy with them....

and then there is guys who have eye sight like mine.. and even the best quality glass out there isn't going to change the fact, that my eye sight sucks...

cheers
seafire

I'd never own a 50mm scope no matter who made it. They are just to bulky and ugly.

Bulky and Ugly... I have an ex wife who turned out just like that also!

No. I own a Tasco, but it came on a 700 that I bought for $279, and I removed it and put it on a .22 that I rarely shoot. It can do no harm there.

Life is too short to use junk. You can always come up with enough money to buy a decent scope. Always. A decent rifle is one which shoots accurately, regardless of caliber, action, or manufacturer. You can buy a decent rifle cheap. Quality scopes rarely come cheap.

No.. I have learned to spend a little more on scopes and am happier. Usually about $300 each.