In Your opinion-
What is the best $150 or less scope for the UltaMag?

Are you asking about the best scope for under $150.00 for a muzzleloader or specifically for the White rifle? If you are asking for the best scope under $150.00 in general, you are sure to get a lot of comments. Everybody has their favorites. My thoughts are:

1. If you are willing to spend $50.00 or $75.00more you will be rewarded with scopes that are significantly better, such as the Nikon Buckmaster and Omega, Bushnell Elite 3200, Burris Fullfield II, and Sitron SI-2.

2. Take a look at Ebay, where I bought a very slightly used Nikon Buckmaster 3X9X40 that I mounted on my Omega for $132.00. Shipping brought that total to almost $150.00 exactly. It is a really good (not great but really good) scope, completely waterproof/fogproof,comes with a lifetime warrenty, and is a great value in my opinion. It will do everything I need a muzzleloader scope to do.

3. Consider a fixed 4X power rather than a variable power scope. These are usually cheaper than variables and potentially more rugged.

4. I bought a new Nikon Prostaff 2X7X32 that I mounted on a little 7MM-08 Remington Model 7. Great little rifle and cartridge and the compact 2X7 fit it perfectly. The scope cost me #99.00 on Ebay plus shipping. I haven't hunted with it yet but the scope is suprisingly clear and bright. I have heard they may not hold zero in hard kicking rifles, but Cayugad mounted one on one of his muzzleloaders and loves it. Some friends of mine bought them for their muzzleloaders and like them so far.

Generally in optics you get what you pay for. The nice thing is that forMZLoaderapplications your range is limited and you dont need to spend half a grand or more to get a perfectly servicable scope.

Good luck

Mouthcaller

Redpep

Here is what I have done... a Bushnell Trophy 3x9x40 with a mil dot reticle. Putting a scope on a White can be a bit tricky because of the short reciever and the cocking lever that must be used. The Trophy worked well. $94.00

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1530643

http://www.opticsplanet.net/swift-riflescopes.html

Although the best buy out there (IMO) is the Swift Premier line of scopes... holy cow are they clean and bright. Make sure it is a Premier

http://www.opticsplanet.net/swift-riflescopes.html

mike

What mounts are you going to use?

UC

I ended up using the extendend mounts I got from DOC... The S415 would work well with modification and actually the A&H mounts might have been the best with modification... but if you are putting on a long scope then Doc's might be the best...



Aboveis with the A&H bases... (double click the pice to get a better view)

Below with Doc's extended bases

I went with Weaver Grand Slam bases, and Warne QD rings. In all of that I mounted a Nikon Pro Staff 2-7x32 and have never looked back. That short scope fits perfect on the White. Comes on and off easy for cleaning and so far has held true each time I put it back on.

Originally I bought a Millet Buck and discoverd that although the scope is nice, I could not get away from it because of the location of mounts and rings. After about the fourth time of getting smacked by the scope, I went and got the Nikon. Now it is a very comfortable rifle to shoot. The Millet I mounted on the Knight Disc rifle. It seems to work just fine there...

I'm Using the White extended bases.

Redpep

With the extended bases you can get a wide variety of scopes on that gun....

Yep... the Nikon Prostaff models (check UltOut.com), the Swift Premiers, Millett Buck Gold...any of those should work pretty well in that price range. You can get a Burris Fullfield II 3x9 for that money if you care to mess with ebay.

https://www.eabco.com/cgi-bin/shopper.exe?preadd=action&key=205-674M

http://www.swift-optics.com/products/sporting/premium_riflescopes/674m that one should be an excellent choice.

If you need the maximum amount of forward scope positioning (and many will) the Warnes Doc has will overhang the action opening like this. BUT, if you are a little creative with a Dremel - they can look like so
Please ignore all the rubber and foam around the scope and action - that setup was intended as joke about scope protectors.

The result I wanted you to see is the location of the rear ring and lack of overhang above the action opening. Those are geometrically identical bases to those in the first picture (pre-Dremel alterations).