Personally, I' d go with hot pink or purple fusion!!!!
Really, I don' t care for stainless either.
I like matte black from stock to scope.

i' de go with matte silver , after all , we don' t want to look gaudy now , do we ?? [&:][&:][&:]

When your at the hunting cabin, stand in front of the mirror and asked your buddies." does this Realtree coat make me look fat" ? Real men wear black.

Matte Black. i own a number of SS guns and all are topped with matte black scopes...they loooooook greeeeaaaaatttttt[8D]

Thanks for all the input........serious and otherwise. I know its not a fashion show, but I don' t want to look like the girl wearing white shoes after Labor Day either!

Upon further review I went with the audience and bought the Black Matte scope........I cheaped out just a bit and went with a 3-9X40 Nikon " Monarch" over the Zeiss. I think I am going to be very happy with it nonetheless. Both VERY nice scopes, I just couldn' t see the Zeiss as $100 nicer.

Thanks again for all the votes.[:-]

I dont think it' s a fashion statement. I have several stainless rifles for their ability to weather harsh enviroments and to have slightly better wear than the chrome moly barrels. The silver finish (clear anodizing) on scopes offer nothing over the black models. So I install the ugly black matte one' s on my rifles.

Here are a few examples......

a boat paddle Ruger 77MK II SS in 280 Rem topped with a Leupold VariX III 4.5x14x50




Remington 40 XBKS SS action/barrel topped with a Leupold VariX III 8.5x25x50 LR




Remington Custom 700 blued action Hart 32" SS barrel wearing a Leupold VariX III 6.5x20x50





They certainly are not pretty, but they are working rifles, AA

I don' t know how you define pretty, doubleA, but those are some sexy rifles.

[8D]

Yeah DoubleA ,what FL/GA Hunter said.............and remind me not to pi$$ you off even from VERy long range![]

I think you might be referring to a rifle that I have setup in a similiar (or same way). As you can see, the Leupold rings are stainless, only because they were selling cheaper than the matte one' s at Wal-Mart. At first, I thought it looked tacky, but I' ve grown used to it. But I' m glad that I settled on the matte-finished Leupold scope than getting the silver finish that I had originally planned.



And here is how she shoots.[8D]