I've heard lots of good about those rifles but no first hand experience with any of the centerfire models yet. You can tell his dad he can do a lot better than that BSA without spending an arm and a leg. I've only got one BSA scope and that's a 2-7x that been on an unmodified 10-22 used for general plinking, squirrels, and other small game. It's been on there since 1999 and it works well enough that I'm just gonna leave it on there until it dies or I decide to upgrade optics. I'll admit it's not the greatest but for my uses it gets the not too demanding job done. Can't see myself putting a BSA on a centerfire anyway.
