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My crew has had five Trophy XLTs, three 4-12 AO, a 1.75-4, and a 3-9, dating back to about 1997 IIRC. Not a speck of trouble from any of them, FWIW. My 4-12 has been on a magnum springer airgun for at least 1000 shots, a .243, and it now sits on a .22. It doesn't get cranked much, but when it does, it goes where it's supposed to. If someone wants cheap scope advice, that's what I recommend. Some were made in Japan, others in the Phillipines and Korea.

I remember a Federal print ad that showed a could of guys, maybe brothers, who claimed that together then could punch their elk tags for the better part of a decade on that one box of 300 WM factory loads.

A decade or so ago, I went to Sports Authority to buy a Leupold Rifleman 3-9x40 that was on sale for less than I could buy it at wholesale. They said that they only had a demo unit left, but when I opened the Rifleman box the scope inside was a 2.5-8x36 Vari-X III. I explained ot the clerk and his manager that it was the wrong scope, a more expensive scope, but to them all scopes were the same and I could buy the scope that was in the box or not, take it or leave it. I took it and it was still working fine the last time that I used it.

That sums it up.


I was at the LGS years ago and I go brought his rifle back in. Said he missed a deer at a little over 100 yards away. The guy had the shop bore sight the scope and he said they were off.

I asked and the guy had never shot the rifle, no need, because the shop bore sighted it.


Crazy.


Gunsmith in the same town would sight in rifles for people. He said they'd bring him a rifle/scope and ammo. He said there were a lot of guys that the only time they pulled a trigger is if they saw a deer.

I know a gunsmith whose shop gets a fair amount of work doing just that.

How many gun related field shootings of another hunter are done by this kind of,,,,hunter? 🤷🏽‍♀️

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I have done the same thing. Had a local business owner tell me to buy a rifle, scope, sling, and ammo for him, and sight it in so his kid could go deer hunting. I did, and made some good money off the deal.............plus the kid killed a deer with it, so everybody was happy.

Yeah, you'd be surprised at the amount of people that think that "boresighted" and "sighted in" mean the same thing. I don't know if they don't do it because they don't know how or they're wusses and they can't handle any recoil at all. Probably a bit of both.

And they are shot in the bung?

Recently tested a Wally World 4-12x40 on a 223 and it made it 14 shots before it lost it's ability to adjust. Adjustments were mushy, clicks were inconsistent and at different powers you had to readjust the eyepiece.

I zero close to 100 rifles each season at the gun shop/range I work at. I cringe every time one of the no-name Remington package scope comes through. It is pointless to try to shoot one above about 4x. I tell them up front that I make no guarantees on the sight in.

Simmons scopes are heads and shoulders above these pieces of junk... I’m still stunned.

Had the same problem when I worked at academy

I bought one of the adl scope package guns at Wally World for my daughter several years ago. Had the no name scope on it. The cross hairs in the scope were broke when I pulled the rifle out of the box for inspection. I didn't even waist the time to ask for another one. I threw the scope and rings in the trash when I got home.

Helped a guy from work replaced his kaleidoscope on a nice old Browning semi-auto 300 Win Mag with a Burris FF2 and sighted it in at my range at home with his 40 year old box of ammo. He wants to hunt with it but doesn’t make time to shoot it. I waited 4 months for him to come shoot it - finally gave it back to him & assume the next time it will be shot is with a different ammo at a deer.