well i ended up with a nikon prostaff. i looked through several scopes and liked it the best. thanks for the advice everyone.

I wouldn't put one on my pellet guns. I Have tried them in the past on a .22 and found that they didn't do well holding their zero. Just the regular bumps you get in the truck, outta the truck on the range, on the bench, back into the truck.... you get the point. IMO THEY ARE CRAP.....

I've had a few on very hard recoiling guns and never had an issue with the way the functioned or held zero. I did have a Bushnell trophy go bad on my slug gun.

In my experience they just have poor optical quality in most cases unless you get the top end ones, and they are not what I would call great.

As far as dependability I have not found they are any better or worse than any other scope in the same price range. The way most feel about BSA I feel about Barska. The one I owned was horrid. I would own a BSA before a barska, cheap simmons or tasco. But I would pick a bushnell over a BSA 9 out of 10 times simply because the optics are usually better.

And I wouldn't even put a Nikon pro staff in the catagory as a BSA so you did fine in my opinion.

Only my opinions though.

Paul

Sounds like you made a good choice

Nikon has really impressed me with their scopes. Good choice.

That's where mine ended up. The POI changed when you changed the power of the scope so I just stuck it on my Crossman 2100 and leave it on 8x.

My suggestion si to buy a Bushnell instead

I did a favor for my gunsmith friend and sighted in a rifle for his customer or should I say attempted to sight it in . He had a BSA scope and all I can remember is it had side focus and a large objective. It was mounted on a Mark X mauser in 30-06. It was new out of the box and mounted in its rings correctly. Bottom line first shot which hit 18" to the rightand the scope went south no amount of turning the W/E adjustments would make any difference. The eyepiece was wobbly as well, not sure if that is a before or after the shot situation. The guy just shook his head. I told him to bring it back to where he purchased it and buy a Nikon Prostaff or a Weaver.

I had a friend talk me into one and it was a big mistake.It was a whitetail hunter 4X12X50 what a piece of junk glass. It was like there was fog all the time couldnt see $hit.I am a nikon fan and all my rifles wear them now.

I wouldn’t even buy one for my 22 lr. ...

I'm not going to say all of them are junk, but I've had two of them now, both cateye models, and they both had reticles detach internally. Optics were pretty poor also. Brightness was ok, but the edge distortion was very evident. I'm sure they make some decent scopes, but I'd personally have a hard time regaining enough faith in them to mount one on a hunting rig.