$500 rifle scope. Best bang for your buck?

[Rock’N Tacos]

I would look for a used credo - 4-16x50 or 2.5-15x42

 

[TimberHunter]

Another vote for the SWFA 3-9x42.

I got one new for $550 with a coupon. Go for used if you can’t stretch your budget.

They removed the ability to add coupons now didn’t they?


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[KenLee]

Saying the word vortex about makes me vomit, but the Viper HD is actually pretty darn nice. I bought 2 and intentionally beat the heck out of the one. Still holding zero, dials perfectly and the glass is actually quite good.

Sucking you in to fail on the biggest deer you've ever seen.

 

[TimberHunter]

Athlon BTR 2-12 all day!

Helos BTR GEN2 2-12x42 FFP IR MIL | DMR Scope

A wide range field of view with ample magnification. A DMR scope ideally suited for riflemen preferring a MIL based reticle option.

athlonoptics.com

Didn’t two different BTR’s fail the drop test? Not sure we should be highly recommending a scope that’s failed twice…


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[JGRaider]

Didn’t two different BTR’s fail the drop test? Not sure we should be highly recommending a scope that’s failed twice…


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LMAO.........

 

[alexnelon]

Ive got a friend that swears by the vortex diamondback tactical. He uses them in competition and wins

I honestly just don't believe that for a second. I had one and it was marginal at best for teaching mils with a .22 I would never try to use it for shooting past maybe 150 yards.

It walked all over the place and the clicks were inaccurate and inconsistent. 5 clicks was .7 mils, the next 5 clicks were .4, the next 5 were .7

They're not good scopes.

 

[KenLee]

I honestly just don't believe that for a second. I had one and it was marginal at best for teaching mils with a .22 I would never try to use it for shooting past maybe 150 yards.

It walked all over the place and the clicks were inaccurate and inconsistent. 5 clicks was .7 mils, the next 5 clicks were .4, the next 5 were .7

They're not good scopes.

I had a Diamondback which came on a 270 years ago. Not tactical version. I swear that I've never owned another scope that bad. Wouldn't zero. Glass worse than any tasco or weaver I've looked through.

 

[Blakerhoades]

I honestly just don't believe that for a second. I had one and it was marginal at best for teaching mils with a .22 I would never try to use it for shooting past maybe 150 yards.

It walked all over the place and the clicks were inaccurate and inconsistent. 5 clicks was .7 mils, the next 5 clicks were .4, the next 5 were .7

They're not good scopes.

All he does is make sure they track when he buys them. If they dont he returns them. Hes had great luck out of them. Im honestly just not a vortex fan. I just dont like them even though ive had no issues personally.

 

[Pronghunter]

Sucking you in to fail on the biggest deer you've ever seen.

Ugh. I know it.

 

[goalie]

Didn’t two different BTR’s fail the drop test? Not sure we should be highly recommending a scope that’s failed twice…


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Yet some people use and abuse them without issues.

 

[roosiebull]

I will echo the used swfa 3-9, I don’t know how you can do better with a 500$ scope. We have 2 of them, a 3-15, and a 2.5–10 NXS on the 4 rifles, I like the swfa 3-9 the best, simple and straightforward, easy to get behind and good reticle

For next year, I am getting my daughter a seekins dmr in 6arc and it too will wear a swfa 3-9, they are great and have not had to touch zero besides changing ammo, glass is plenty good for anything I need

 

[alexnelon]

Yet some people use and abuse them without issues.
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Ah yes, the brutal destructive power of a .223 gas gun on a covered flat range with padded barricades...

 

[TimberHunter]

Yet some people use and abuse them without issues.
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Use and abuse is different to other people I guess. I expect my rifle system to maintain zero if I fall or accidentally drop it while miles back in ona hunt. Excepting anything less is simply making a compromise when there are items out there that can routinely maintain zero.


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[goalie]

Ah yes, the brutal destructive power of a .223 gas gun on a covered flat range with padded barricades...

It gets run with and tossed around. WTF do you do with your hunting rifles?

Also have them on hunting rifles

 

[JPeters218]

I have a trijicon huron and really like it on another rifle. I really would like to find something I can dial with though.

I’ve got a that exact accupoint on my .223 and it dials perfectly out to 750. Just take the top cap off. No zero-stop is a bit of a pain, but no the end of the world. I really prefer my Accupoint to my Credo 2.5-15

 

[BLJ]

Use and abuse is different to other people

I’d say this is the case a lot of times.

 

[TimberHunter]

It gets run with and tossed around. WTF do you do with your hunting rifles?

Also have them on hunting rifles
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Sounds like you’re right, we’re wrong. It’s sure hard hiking and heighten chance of dropping a rifle on those rolling hills. Us western hunters just don’t know what we’re doing. Hint, some times the truck isn’t only an hour or so hike away where we can change a scope or rezero

No offensive (I’d do it too if I could) but if you can legitimately hunt your area in crocs, your hunting and the hunting were talking about that can knock a rifle off, are two different things


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[goalie]

Sounds like you’re right, we’re wrong. It’s sure hard hiking and heighten chance of dropping a rifle on those rolling hills. Us western hunters just don’t know what we’re doing. Hint, some times the truck isn’t only an hour or so hike away where we can change a scope or rezero

No offensive (I’d do it too if I could) but if you can legitimately hunt your area in crocs, your hunting and the hunting were talking about that can knock a rifle off, are two different things


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Nice straw man

I didn't say anything about picking drop tested rifles being "wrong "

I just think it's a data point, not the end all be all, and I'm checking zero after any significant drop/fall anyhow, so it's well behind tracking repeatably on my list of what's important.

Add in years of use with several samples without any issues, and you'll have to forgive me for not acting like any scope that doesn't pass the RS drop test is immediately unworthy of use or consideration.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Yet some people use and abuse them without issues.
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You must not be secret service… making a shot on a sloped roof of all things…

 

[goalie]

You must not be secret service… making a shot on a sloped roof of all things…

Cleaned rifle with less than a mag this year, 580 and 600 yards were first round hits.