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I am having a 223 Remington bolt action built and can not decide what size scope to put on it. I will use it mostly at the range for 100 yard bench shooting most of the time and for varmint hunting the rest. I like a scope high magnification so I can really see where my shots are going at the bench. Most of my varmint hunting is never over 200 yards.Any sugestions? I am thinking of a leopold in a 8x24 range
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A Leupold 6.5x20x40mm should serve you just fine. I have a half-dozen of them and use them for basically the same purpose that you describe. Unless you are planning to shoot competition 20 power is more than adequate.
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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ANDREWS1958/ I put a Burris signiture 8-32 on my custom .233 and it is a nice scope with fine cross hair. I put a Bushnell 4200 8-32 on my 6BR and feel that it is quite superior to the Burris. Cross hair is not quite as fine, but that is OK; big difference is the brighter & more crisp image with the 4200. Compare $$ with the Leupold suggested by drover & I think the choice is easy...Bushnell gives you a whole lot of scope. Hope this helps/ Chaz
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Yep, I have to agree - both the Bushnell 3200 and 4200 series scopes are good values for the dollars. The 4200 in particular has great optics, the 3200 is basically equivilant to the Leupold VX-ll and the 4200 is at least equivialant to the VX-lll Leupolds.
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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I use Leupold's 6.5-20x for most of my target shooting, and for all of my long range varmint hunting.
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I like something in the 4X16 range with crisp optics.....
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I am having a 223 Remington bolt action built and can not decide what size scope to put on it. I will use it mostly at the range for 100 yard bench shooting most of the time and for varmint hunting the rest. I like a scope high magnification so I can really see where my shots are going at the bench. Most of my varmint hunting is never over 200 yards.Any sugestions? I am thinking of a leopold in a 8x24 range The sightron 6-24x50.Actually pretty nice for the money. I have run this side by side with my lupie 6-20x50 LRT and cant see why the lupie costs more.It not any better. dave
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