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Old 10-09-2008 | 04:04 PM
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hometheaterman
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Default RE: Need a scope that can handle recoil.

I have a Burris 3x9x40mm Fullfield II I bought but I don't have a gun to put it on yet although I may replace my Leupold with it after hunting season. I hate to now as I got it sighted in like I want.
I've heard good things about it.

The other scope in that price range I can comment on is a Leupold 3x9x40mm VX-I. I do not recommend this scope and infact like the 2 $30 Tasco Bucksight from Wal-Mart a lot better. The reason I do not like it is after 6 months or so it seemed like the insides would shake after shooting. Not what I expected from a scope of that price. I sent it in for repair and finally got it back 1-2 months later. This was a lot longer than I expected to wait so I wasn't thrilled here. Anyway I got it back and it seemed to work. I had a $30 Tasco on while it was being repaired but put the Leupold on once I got it back. I sighted it in pretty good. Well, later on I went to shoot it just to check it out with a slightly different bullet. This was after sitting a 6 months or so. It was off but that may have been from the bullet. I sighted it in perfect as in shooting the bullseye over and over at 50 yards. I ended up having it resting against something that night and it fell over. I shot it again and it was now 3-4" high. From just a slight fall not dropping just tipping over it knocked it 3-4" off. That's crazy. I've have a Simmons that's 4 years old on another gun that's been dropped and just abused way more than this thing and never been sent in for repair and never lost 0. Heck the Tasco's even seemed to hold zero a lot better than this Leupold. The Tasco looked just as clear to me and a few friends said it looked clearer to them. I also have the same one on a Muzzle loader I've had for a year now. So it's lasted twice as long as the Leupold without needing repair. It also still shoots and works great and was $30 vs $220.

When I bought it and even now I kept hearing spend $2-250 on a Leupold and it will be way better than any cheap scope. So I did and the Vx-I is what you get in that price range. It turned out to be crap and I wish I had either bouggt something else or just saved my money and bought a Tasco.

I went into the Tasco's hoping they would get me by but not expecting to like them and infact expecting to dislike them. So I went in with a bad additude and they turned that around by greatly impressing me. I'm starting to think most people on here with the exception of a few that don't like them have probably not used one. Everyone I know that uses them loves them.

The Leupold was the opposite. I went in expecting to like it and now strongly dislike it. I kept trying to make reasons why it was good but the reality is it just really isn't that great.
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