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super_hunt54 06-02-2015 09:43 AM


Originally Posted by SimonKenton (Post 4200427)
I'm looking into a 4.5-16x Konus with bubble level and lighted mil-dot reticle for under $300. That HAS to beat the Aim Sport by a light year. The asst. RSO was ambling along and HAD to see the bolt open but "accidentally" bumped the bench and the rifle rolled off the sand bags. HE blamed me for having it so "precariously balanced" my keester.

May want to look into those lighted reticles. Some people have trouble with them due to a "glare" (for lack of a better term) from the reticle. Some people love them, others, like me, that have highly amplified night vision have trouble with them. The "glare" kind of offsets the aim point. Not to mention, it's just something else to go wrong on the scope. While technology is a wonderful thing sometimes, when hunting, I strongly believe in the K.I.S.S. Theory. Keep It Simple Stupid. The more crap you depend on gives greater odds in something going wrong.

SimonKenton 06-02-2015 11:43 AM

I've used a lighted on for years. I rarely light it up except on a LOW setting at first shooting light.

Sheridan 06-02-2015 06:11 PM


Originally Posted by SimonKenton (Post 4200472)
I've used a lighted on for years. I rarely light it up except on a LOW setting at first shooting light.

+1

Great at dawn & dusk...............and when aiming into the shadows.

BTW - If for whatever reason the lighted reticle fails...........it's a black reticle just like your - LOL :poke:

CalHunter 06-03-2015 07:46 AM

Creating a complaint ticket for a spammer means one of the mods will remove the spam and permaban the spammer. Copy/pasting the spammer's post into a post about the spammer then means the same mod then has to edit your copy/paste post which then looks kind of silly and makes twice the work for the mod. Just saying.

Topgun 3006 06-03-2015 09:30 AM


Originally Posted by CalHunter (Post 4200606)
Creating a complaint ticket for a spammer means one of the mods will remove the spam and permaban the spammer. Copy/pasting the spammer's post into a post about the spammer then means the same mod then has to edit your copy/paste post which then looks kind of silly and makes twice the work for the mod. Just saying.

Sorry about that Cal! I tell people not to comment and to just send an alert to you like I do a lot and then did it myself, but it was because it was such a goofy one! That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!!! You do have to admit that it was a weird one in that it wasn't selling anything like they usually are. Anyway, you need to earn that big money they're paying you as a Mod, LOL!

rockport 06-05-2015 06:52 AM

Bushnell Elite is pretty hard to beat for the money.

aramaram 06-22-2015 10:50 PM

I guess it was similarly a junk......right??

epl1007 08-28-2015 01:37 PM

Pick up a Nikon Vortex or Leupold

snowbank 02-16-2016 09:53 PM

i used Bushnell scope chief from 1963 until 1992. The last was a bdc. A great scope that steadily got less and less dependable. I shipped it to the factory and when it came back it was worse. I spent the money and got a leupold 3-9. The gun went back to being the tack driver it always was. I've never had a problem since. Buy the best burris, nicon, leupold you can afford. Cheap scopes are no bargin.

dzumwalt 05-26-2016 11:46 AM


Originally Posted by SimonKenton (Post 4200105)
:confused0024:
About a year ago the last time I went to Wooster Mt. range some asst. RSO knocked my Sako off the bench and it bounced off the scope. I had no ammo to check it so I went home. Last week I was trying to evaluate some ammo and after each 2nd group the zero seemed to have shifted slightly I was using a Caldwell Tack Driver sand bag and rear back.

It's a Chinese made Aim Sport 4-12x and from the start there was tiny "flecks" in the image. I wonder if it's damage or was just a cheap scope from the start. I'm looking into the 1.5-6x Konus Pro with a 30mm tube so I don't have to change the Conetrol rings and base.

The Aim Sports are pretty cheap and I would not rely on them.

I personally have had very good luck with Bushnell Scopes. http://amzn.to/1Vkt0QS

Thanks!


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