Opinions on Burris Scopes
 

Wanting some opinions or experiences with these scopes, specifically the Fullfield II.

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They are a very good rugged scope with good optics. Its always a matter of opinion but look at them in the store and take it outside if they let you. If it looks good, Buy it they hold well and they are overall very good scopes. I had several of the old ones and the new ones seem comparable.

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Just bought a new Fullfield II 3.5x10x50 scope and spent a lot of time looking at it and the Vx-II 3x9x50 and the Burris I believe is the better scope...Only gripe on mineis the windage adjustments are a little tough to read but workmanship is very good and the optics are very bright and clear... I had a 3x9x40 FFII a few years back and had some service problems with it..hopefully this one will be better

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I have a burris 3.5x10 fullfield for about 8 years now and have had no problems

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I am the newest of the newbies on this site and am very impressed with the knowledge here. I have had a Burris Signature on my Weatherby 300 mag for 13 years. This scope gives me fits, the “0” moves and the eye relief is not enough to keep from getting hit. Now I have loose parts inside and am going to replace it with a Sightron. My 22/250 sports a sightron and it is clearer and brighter and half the cost of the Burris.[:@]

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Here's a thread you might be interested in:

http://www.accuratereloading.com/ubb...t=1#Post562658

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I had a Burris Fullfield and hated it ! It was aweful in low light.....the eye relief was the worst I have had.....and the "clicks" for adjustments are so soft and quiet that I had a hard time telling whether I made 1 or 4 clicks !!

I bought a Zeiss VM/V and although it cost 3 times more ......I am much happier with it (no complaints) !!

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Never had one until last year. put a 6-24 signature with target turrets on my 300RUM just for long range shooting. It was one problem after another. Windage and elevation adjustments doesn have much dynamic range ~around an honest 8MOA to be honest. Yea, you can adjust further but its not accurate MOA's after that. I have twice that much on my Leupolds and Ziess. Call Burris, (horrible reps), and he said 8 to 10MOA is fine. I said for me to use this I have to center the scope perfectly with the signature rings with the insert kit. Well, its harder than it sounds. Then finally I was doing some long range shooting. and notice you have to give the scopes some raps or hits to get the reticle to settle in while adjusting target turrets. (not good for a target scope). Finally eye relief is dangerous with a 300RUM or magnums with no muzzlebreak. Never did konk myself, but came too close for me. Made me flinch. Took off and put my Leupold back on and put stoney point target knobs. Not ideal but works.

One way I could see the reticles wouldn't adjust right was putting a bore sighter on it. It will not come back to zero when doing a box test with it. Never own another burris.

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Thanks for the replies.....decided to stick with Leupold!

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Boy I would like to see a Sightron anything beat out any scope other than cheap Japanese low end scopes in brightness... Complaining about eye relief shooting a 300 Weatherby, your only answer is a Leupold.
1/2 the price of a Burris for a Sightron where are you buying your scopes?

Seems like Burris is getting bashed around pretty good...I have had a grand total of five of them and currently own just one a 3.5x10x50 FFII...I am very pleased with the current one and prior to buying it looked at a Leupold VX-II in 3x9x50 ...as far as I could tell resolution wise the Burris is better and brighter...no problems zeroing it or any of the other complaints lodged here. This is my second FF II though and the previous one (bought when first introduced) had to be returned and had a CS nightmare with them but since its been back has not been a problem(gave it to my brother inlaw) it was mounted on a 300 win mag with a muzzlebreak and now its on a 06 and appears to be very happy. All the other Signatures I owned had no problem. In general I think they are a quality scope but they seem to have patchy QA and CS...they have been bought out by Beretta and hopefully they will straighten them out.

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I've been dying to try Burris's Electro dot scope. I get permits to call coyotes at night. And in the moon light I wouldn't have to turn on the spot light. Then this of course would mean buying another rifle to put it on.

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Oh yea, oldelkhunter, I got a dandy 6-24X44mm signature with target turrets I will sell ya real cheap. Since they are your scope of choice.

I hear alot of people talk about brightness and all that jazz when talking about scopes. I mean I like a scope to be crisp and clear on a gun, but I don't look for this huge brighness. As long as my target is not blurry so bad I can't make out what to aim at, I am happy. I want a scope that is rugged and good eye relief more than anything. I do want my binocs and spotting scopes to be as bright and nice as possible. I look thru them 100X more than I do my rifles.

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BC Taking things a little out of context are we ?


I am just saying that I tried this one out and it is better than a comparable vX-II scope in fact it is light years ahead of it designwise, at the store where I bought it and compared to a 1/2 dozen of Vari-xII and III's that my friends at our hunting club own ...if it breaks i realize that Burris CS is not Leupolds.... Out of five I have owned only had a problem with one. I own more Leupolds then anything else by the way and with the intro of the new VX-III probably stay that way for awhile.

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Oldelk, just trying to give you a deal on a scope.:D

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I own 1-burris and no complaints in 3 years. I am not a certain brand guy when it comes to scopes, I have more bushnells and loopy's than any other brand. CS is important to me and if I ran into problems with my Burris which wasn't dealt with properly or timely, you can bet I would never own another. I had that happen with Nikon, a brand some consider excellent but this chap will never own a Nikon optic again. This is only to say all scopes can malfunction and our prespective is somewhat dependant on the support we receive after the fact.

I have a buddy who bought the new FFII and it is just fine with no problems. BTW, he is a leupold man but replaced a VXII with the FFII b/c he had problems.

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oldelkhunter--I wish my Burris scope was reliable and didn’t have the problems that it has. The Weatherby has a lot of recoil and that is why I bought the Signiture model. The Sightron was on sale for $289.00 when I bought it the Burris was $445.00 in 1991 so you are right, it’s a little more than half. Have you tried a sightron? The Burris is a bear to adjust the mag ring and the l-r up-dn adjustments are stiff. I have two Leupold scopes, one on a 44mag modle 29 and one on a 45/70 guide gun. I wish they had clik stops on the adjustments instead of the friction control.

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I like Leupold.

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I have a Burris Signature Series 3x9x50 on a Savage Model 110E chambered in 30.06. Very light gun, kicks like a pack mule on acid. In 4 years I have never had a problem. I would buy another. The posi-lock feature on the new scopes is a good feature, in my opinion.