Well I had a fisher dietz fail on me that was on a 303 of course it had been my fathers, so it was probably 40 or 50 years old when i got it, but to add to the cheap scope issue, I have a 375 H&H Finnbear that I have had for at least 40 years, that I put in a brown precision stock I finished myself, then mounted an old bushnell 1.5x4.5 on figuring I would see what happened, shot a few hundred rounds through it and scope held up, switched it to a tasco world class a while back and I know the round count is in the hundreds on it also, with anything from 235 grain up to 300 grain bullets, and to my surprise it has held up well, has taken moose, and grouse, and a lot of the hunts are up the alaska hwy, and all in winter time, so I am surprised it does so well and decided to keep it on there, so even cheap scopes can work.


"The 375HH is the greatest level of power you can get for the investment in recoil." (JJHack)
79s and losttrail, biggest waste of air.