First of all, I'd think long and hard about any 50mm scope on a .338 Magnum. Even the fancy, expensive scopes have had problems with them. Barsness, for instance, in his excellent article, "Tough Scopes," July ,2004, page 56, relates a story by Charlie Sisk who had three Swarovski 6-18X scopes go bad on a customer's custom .338 before he finally talked the guy into a smaller Swarovski.
You have only so much money to spend and you want a tough 50mm scope ? Good luck. Such scopes do exist apparently. But not with much eye relief and tough. My suggestion is to try one of the cheaper Leupolds. All of their models must pass a mimimum of 5000 rds. @ 750 g's. Even the cheap Rifleman scopes. 750 g's is like the recoil of a .375. Other than that, the Elite 3200's are apparently tested at some kind of .375 recoil for 1000 rds. Which is pretty good, really. E
The other thing about Leupolds are their long eye relief and large eye boxes at the lower magnifications. E
