OK.. I'm sure that I'm going to get a million different answers here, but here goes!

I've got a nice R-700 in .308 with a Manners Glass Bedded Stock, Timney 510 trigger and a heavy 20" barrel. All in all it's a very accurate and nice rifle and to be honest is a jewel in my gun collection.

It's primary purpose is obviously larger game given it;'s .308 calbre.

However I've always felt that the Burris Fullfield-2 3x-9x-40mm is not enough scope for the rifle. So I'm looking to upgrade the scope.

I don't have a fortune to spend on this.. my budget is less than $500 preferably a lot less!

I was looking at the Nikon Buckmasters 6-18x40mm which is on Optics Planet for $380

Can anyone comment or suggest on this? Any other ideas? Is this a good hunting scope?

As for by Burris: When I get a replacement scope for the R-700 I'm thinking about putting the Burris on an AR15 Varmint rifle that I'm building. So it won't go to waste.. My logic is that I would have to buy a scope for the Varmint rifle so I may as well use the Burris and upgrade the R-700 scope. Is this good thinking?

Thanks for any advise!