re: Rifle scope recommendations

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Swarovski Z3 is in your budget and better than most scopes listed.

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Yup, but watch out for the Meopta fanboys. They’ll soon be circling you with torches & pitchforks.

I typically buy scopes to fit the rifle. On my small guns usually 40 mm. On my DD5 I have a 5-25x56 ATACR. It fits the gun and is an awesome scope for hunting and target. But it would not be a good fit for a small bolt gun. My 300blk SBR I have a 3-9x40 and it’s perfect size.

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Yup, but watch out for the Meopta fanboys. They’ll soon be circling you with torches & pitchforks.

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I have a Meopta. We have fanboys? I bought it on a budget

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I have a Meopta

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Me too.....

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We have fanboys?

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You’re new here I guess, second largest group here behind the Tikka cult.

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Sweet! I have my meopta on my Tikka .270.

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You’re going to fit in nicely. :cheers;

I’m a vortex fanboy. Not breaking the bank, but when I’ve held them up next to the same class leupold I prefer the vortex every time. And usually saving a few bills.

Midway has a Sig scope and rangefinder combo at a good price. I don’t think either are their top line.
I have a Sig rangefinder that’s great.

Past three weekends, I hunted with a few different rifles with different scopes and here’s my hot take on everything so far:

Vortex can suck it. I put a Diamondback 4-12x40 on my 35 Whelan for primitive rifle. Eye relief is horrible, quality of glass is horrible, low-light is cloudy as hell. If I moved my eyeball off the centerline of the exit pupil at all, the whole thing went solid black or solid white. In broad daylight, its fine, but eye relief still sux. This scope will be replaced with a Leupold VX3.

The next day, when normal rifle opened, I used a long range rifle with a Leupold VX6HD 3-18x44 on a pipeline. Holy shite what a difference – GLASS QUALITY MATTERS. Watching deer at 200 yds at dawn & dusk seems brighter thru the scope than by naked eye. I understand the two are apples & oranges in scope and quality of glass. This was just the first time I had a scope of that quality in woods and not looking at a 200yd target and I was blown away.

18x power zoom is A LOT OF SCOPE for deer hunting in the southeast US. You can count ticks on a deer’s arse at 200 yds. Had to zoom back to like 10-12 to see the whole animal and make sure I was aiming at shoulder and not the arse. I kept the scope on 12x the whole time and felt perfectly confident of a shot (that never presented itself )

So, over Thanksgiving I hunted with a “normal” rifle with a Leupold VX3 4.5-14x40. The 14x power was more than plenty for a 200yd shot on a deer. Optics were great, it cost me about $350 on ebay, and I will be buying another one when my 6.5x55 SE is delivered later this week. You do not need to spend an extra $100 on the CDS version for this scope. Zero at 100yds, then 4 clicks up and you’re good to go for anything to 200yds. Aim an inch high at 300yds if you need to.

Nikon scopes have been an excellent value with great clarity for their price range. Too bad they’re no longer making scopes.