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If you would like to know the most durable scopes ask the air rifle folks. Those guns will tear up any scope.

Yeah, but wouldn't a centerfire rifle tear up a spring/air rifle scope just as quickly as an air rifle would tear up a centerfire rifle scope? Recoil for each is in the opposite direction.

The Victory HT scopes go back to the Fatherland, I know this for a fact, 8 weeks is the quoted turn around time. If Meopta made the Conquest's, I am glad to know this, I sent a few of those back for repair as well.

SAKO-, this was only about two years ago.

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My V9 has the green logo, pretty sure I bought it in '95, might have been '96...been on a Mauser 98 in 30/06 that has been abused like only a 20 year old kid can abuse his equipment(that kid is turning 40 next month )

Goes all the more to CS then in the context of the options given me.

So i guess I am looking at a 2.5x10x42mm NF NXS

It would seem a good bet as those like US Optics fall in Mil Spec category. These items were designed for soldiers to use. Many of those guys are as kind to equipment as Hulk is to someone that makes him mad. Personally I do not like overbuilt stuff that could be used as a proverbial hammer.

Two!!!!!! I am very impatient.... All I want is too get to the center.

If I was a betting man...............I'd say Nightforce and Schmidt&Bender!!

From Nightforce website:

http://nightforceoptics.com/nightforce-stories/

Iam pretty tough on my stuff and my fixed power Weavers take it in stride. I have a SWFA 20x fixed on my prairie gun. but it does not get clanged around like the others. I have been a 20yr old for almost 24 yrs. and am still kinda tough on some things.

Email to Vortex.
Me: Which of your scopes are rated for 50 cal rifles? Thank you!

Answer: Anything in the Viper series and up is 50 Cal rated, but I bet if you put a diamondback on a .50 it wouldn�t have any issues either.

All the best,

Ken Calhoun | Sales/Marketing | Vortex Optics | Toll Free 800.426.0048 ext. 314

If you can shoot a barrel out from under a scope without it losing zero, then that's a "tough" scope.

I would definitely get the vortex then.

what is rated to 50 cal mean to them? It last's 3 shots? If the sales guys say its so, I am sure to believe it.... I cannot find much to like in the Vortex scopes, glass is so so, retical is too light in many, FOV in ones I looked at was smaller than others, prices in some were right up there. Have no idea if they hold zero and not seen it discussed much.

Well I just looked at Weaver's site...I know it isn't a variable but..."Classic K-Series� fixed power scopes are built to take heavy recoil punishment and hold zero to 10,000 rounds from a .375 H&H magnum rifle." There it is, in writing.

Its all subjective, shoot them enough and sooner or later they will all fail. And generally variables will go first. I have had a few scopes fail in the past. Zeiss, Nikon, Leupold,Tasco, Bushnell etc. All variables, I still use variables quite a bit though regardless and have a couple that have lived on numerous rifles 300 Magnum and up. The toughest I have used thus far are a pair of old M8 Leupolds. One is a 4x that is the only scope that seemed to stay together on my old .338. That thing just eats scopes with and without the muzzle brake. The other is a 3x on a Model 700 African Safari rifle I purchased from the original owner. It is still mounted in the Buehler mounts he had installed when the rifle and scope were purchased in 1978. It has been well used but cared for and shoots MOA with 260 Noslers. No I am not pushing Leupy's either. I do believe though if you want an optic to be as tough as possible a fixed power is the way to go. The more moving parts you have the more there is to go wrong.

Springer air rifles recoil both ways as they have piston bounce this is why they will tear up scopes that magnum rifles wont..

Agreed!