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Over the last few years I moved my older Leupold scopes to my rimfire plinking rifles. I have replaced them on all of my centerfires with premium glass from Leica, Leupold, Schmidt and bender, and Zeiss.

I’m doing a budget build as a gift for a new shooter/hunter and need a scope recommendation. The rifle is an older Remington BDL in 308. In today’s market what is a $200 scope that would be a good starter for this rifle? Again, It is going to a brand new hunter.

If you can find one.. a Burris 3-9x40 Fullfield II

I’ll 2nd the Burris. Currently have about 6 or 7 of them on various rifles and they can’t be beat for the money.

Burris Droptine.

Gonna look at Burris stuff.

Good choice for your application. I have 4 of them.

Check out the Fullfield II 4.5-14x42mm Ballistic Plex. They are only a few dollars more than the 3-9. Nice scope for the money.

Burris has never made a scope worth a fhuqk and it's THE Dirtiest Of Tricks,to slip a Newb a piece of fhuqking schit like that. Hint...............

I am not Leupold fan but I would suggest a VX Freedom over a Burris. I have one on a rimfire and it is just OK. On a full sized BDL, I'd also try to keep things as light as possible.

Take a look at the Sig Sauer Buckmasters 3-9x40mm - BDC

Was hoping Doug would comment. Thanks

I thought Big Stick was a parallel universe Doug......no?

I like the Burris except for the eye relief. You could do worse than a used set and forget Leupold or Redfield Revolution 3-9x40. The eye relief is more forgiving and the glass seems about equal to the Burris.

I agree on the notion of a used Redfield Revolution. Very user friendly. In this price range, I've had the least failures/problems with the Revolutions, new or used.

FFII 3-9X40 WITH the ballistic plex reticle is the best of the bunch.. There's no question what I'd go with. Don't be too surprised when they are hitting targets very easily out to 4-500 yards with that set up. You'll be scratching your nutsack, wondering why you've never tried one for yourself.

I will be scratching my Nutsack regardless…

But I am gonna look at that FFII !

Another vote for the Burris Fullfield II. The E1 is also nice if you can live with the floating reticle. These are the best deal going on a set it and forget it type scope imo. They have great glass, are very durable, stand up to lots of abuse and still hold zero, and are backed by great customer service.

I own a Redfield Revolution mentioned here as well, and it's not nearly as good of a scope as the Burris imo.

My recent samples of one FFII and one Droptine made all my Revolutions look like $500 scopes by comparison. Both were horrible with regards to edge distortion at 9x. Like fishbowls. Maybe I got bad ones......

So you prefer it over the Burris you owned?

I’m not positive but isn’t the BURRIS DROPTINE just basically the same scope as the BURRIS FULLFIELD II just with a separate power ring and different look.

Doug laid out the differences here a few times before. I'll be damned if I remember. IIRC the Droptine has a few functional improvements.