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RE: Boy I have seen everything now
 

Let's see...NC whitetails...I have a beautiful vision of a Ruger M77 RSI with a Leupold Vari-X III 1.5-5 on top...308 Win...

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I don't think the 338 is in question here, especially if this person has a Boss on it. But, you definitely get what you pay for with a scope and I hate to say this, Tasco's higher end "Titan" scopes are great value and stand up to a beating. A guy in camp has a 3-12X50 Titan on his 300WinMag for over 4 years now and has had zero problems with it and wouldn't think of trading it for anything. Still not a Tasco fan but my 2 cents anyway.

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Let me set this straight I am not judging anyones choices in equipment. I myself will probably use my 338 this year on deer along with my 280 . I was just amazed that a scope that has a less than stellar reputation could stand up to a rifle that has tremendous recoil with a muzzle brake to boot on it. Now weren't the Tasco titans made with a titanium tube? They were supposed to be a well made scope and they were not 100 dollar scopes last time I looked at their prices.In any event I was amazed...considering I had a similiar rig 300 win mag winlite with a Gentry muzzlebrake and a 3x9 fullfield II that got scrambled after about oh say 150 round went thru it.

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Actually Seattle a 308 will do the trick pretty much everywhere but those of us that are bitten by gunwriteritis like wacking deer and other animals with anything that's in the gun safe. There are some places where you can get some amazing long shots here and the big boomers are not out of place. I like brushing up with the big cannons and take them to places like Alabama with its liberal bag limit so I can brush up on Deer with them because they are way to big for shooting groundhogs.

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I've had 2 Tasco's fail me! They were both on a .308 Winchester!
I will never buy another one, but I know that you could get a good Tasco or a bad Leupold for that matter!
Propmahn says that 1 in 10 makes the Tasco bad and 1 in 20 makes the Leupold good! If that were true, then the Leupold is a least twice as good as the Tasco! Quality control cost a lots of money and that is where some of the extra cost in quality glass comes from! Stopping a bad scope from ever leaving the factory!
Another cost of quality, is the warranty. I have never had to use the warranty on my Leupold, but I have heard that they are quick to fix or replace your scope. Tasco did replace my broken scope, it only took them 3 months! Hunting season was long over before I got my scope back!
You just can't go wrong buying good glass! To me a cheap scope is a gamble that sooner or later will cost you!
My first Tasco failed at the range, no problem!
My second Tasco failed in the field, no deer!

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overkill....rotflmao...that gun must be able to kill a deer twice.

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ALF is right about kill twice. Just hunt from a ground stand, wait intil the deer line-up two or three deep and take one shot. Fill the freezer and save on money and time. Of course my .243 can do it also, but everybody likes talking about the .338. I hunt with a .338 because I like the gun, it does the job I ask it to do, and the cheap Tasco socpe, that I bought for $69, puts the bullet where the crosshairs are. Why do you worry about what other people/hunters/shooters do. If that shooter's gun is not working, be kind enough to help him find the problem. Which may be the scope. Otherwise, leave him alone. He is doing the best he can!

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You have not seen it all, not by a long shot! <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

A year ago I was working at my clubs rifle sight in clinic when a family of Hmong came over to the line one bench over from where I was working. There were 3 of them, an ancient man, a middle aged man who was probably his son, and another who must have been the grandson in his late teens/early twenties. The Middle aged man pulled out what I think was a very old Mosin Nagant and put it on the bench in front of the old man. No big deal the club member who was working the bench thought as we see a few mausers and Enfields every year that customers bring. To his suprise, the younger man produced an old scope, a short piece of wood and a roll of duct tape. The old man held the gun, the middle aged man held the scope on top of the piece of wood on top of the rifle, and the youngest member of the family proceeded to wrap duct tape around the entire scope and rifle. The club member at the bench was at wits end at this point and didn't knwo what to do. The old man fired a few shots which hit very low. They proceeded to unwrap the duct tape carefully, place a thin wooden shim under the rear of the scope and rewrapped it with the same tape. Amazingly enough, the bullets were on the paper now. The middle aged man adjusted the elevation and windage on the scope and the old man proceeded to shoot a very respectable group around the bullseye.

I have no doubt that this man got his deer last year, and probably gets his every year.<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

Don't judge people by what they shoot or the price of their scope or gun. Not everyone can afford the best stuff not is everyone out to impress others. Not all hunters are 'gun guys' I would bet the majority of them use whatever tool they can get their hands on to allow them to partake in the yearly hunt.

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Oh BTW, my .308 had a tasco on it for years and I never had a problem. I recently upgraded to a Leupold and put the Tasco on a .22.

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Yeah, I know. I've shot deer with a .338 Win Mag myself. It does a respectable job, and I actually think it preferable to the 300 RUM or 7mm STW for that purpose. Hurts too much, though.

I just like the looks of a full-length stock in the thick woods.

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