bsa scopes need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

i have a bsa platinum 8.5-34x42 scope it has side to side adjustment,up down adjustment and yard adjustment????!!! i have looked everywhere online and CANNOT find any info, or any for sale its startin to **** me off lol i want to put this on my traditions buckhunter inline 50 cal muzzleloader(not the pistol) any info about the scope would be so helpful and what do you guys think of my type of muzzle loader?Attachment 6580

well the "up and down" adjustement (the top dial) on there should be calibrated for either imperial minute of angle, metric minute of angle or millradian. imperial moa = 1 inch at 100 yards, metric is 1 cm at 100 meters and if my memory serves me right 1 millrad is 3.49 inches at 100 yards. if you can get yourself a good chrony you can find the b.c. of your bullet and your muzzle velocity which you then plug into a ballistic calculator which would give you your moa/millrad drop. for example my deer rifle has a muzzle velocity of 3235 and a b.c. of .621 so at 500 yards i have about 7 moa of drop. on your scope that should mean i would dial the turret up 28 clicks if each click equals 1/4 imperial moa. its simple to some, hard to others and a overall pain in the arse.

that other dial on the side is used mostly by airgunners to find range. basicaly theres something called field target shooting where in most cases you need to hit a target 1/2 inch or smaller with no range finders so guys buy big scopes like those. you just zoom in, use that big side dial to focus and read the range on the side.

just my opinion that scope has no place on a muzzleloader. BSA is a airgun company and that is meant to be a feild target airgun scope. that scope is overkill, and coming from me the guy who over kills everything, thats a big statement

+1 dylan's comments. That's NOT the scope for your muzzleloader...and BSA is NOT worth wasting $ on (IMO).

Don't waste your money on a BSA.
You will not be happy with it.

ya i know sorta how to use adjustments and well the thing is its the only scope i have right now lol i got it from a buddy for free so i am not complaning (or at least not yet) but i took it to my local hunting store fin feather and fur they said it did not have enough adjustment!! i was like wow but thank you for your help ,, what kind of scope would you guys reccomend?

and how much do you guys pay for 30-06 rounds? at the fin feather and fur its $53 for 25!! they aint even a heavy load either

Are you referring to Winchester SuperX ballistic tip ammo?
That stuff is super expensive.
You should be able to find some Remington Core-Lokt for around $25 a box of 30-06. I don't shoot 30-06 but that's what I can get my 7mm Mag for.

i dont know i seen it and just walked away lol

i dont know i seen it and just walked away lol

You have heard this before in the responses, but I add one more opinion. This is from first hand experience with the so called top of the line BSA. This Savage rifle combo "sale" at a local gun shop. I already knew BSA's were cheap and had a poor reputation. But i was not sure my daughter would take to hunting. So I sprung for the combo. Let me tell you that BSA's reputation is well deserved. The low light performance of this 3-9x40 mm scope was pitiful. I kid you not, I could almost see more detail with my then 55 year old naked eyes. The windage and elevation adjustments were marked 1 click=1/4 inch. Right ! There was absolutely no consistency click to click. Walked all over the place, though I finally got it zeroed OK. She loved deer hunting so prior to the 2008 season I bought her a compact Leupold Vari-X III and put the BSA in the Good Will box.

I have learned over the years with scopes you find very few good cheap ones that will hold up to recoil. A muzzle loader has a good bit. Vortex is a good brand if you need to go cheap. Just save up double of what you would go and get at wally world. Then you have a true no fault lifetime warranty. Not the lifetime warranty that companies like BSA give you which translate to just throw it away when it breaks because it is your fault it broke.

No offense buddy, but a 6-24x is way to much. If you hunt fields maybe a 3-9x but a 2-7x would be better. A 1.5-4x would be perfect if you plan on hunting in the woods.

if your bored and need somethin to do..get a bsa..it'll keep ya busy

Open sites would be better than getting a BSA.

Do yourself a favor and give that piece of junk to somebody you really don't like.

That is a varmit scope intended for use on a specialized gun for long-range shooting. In general, higher power scopes demand the higest optical quality glass and construction. Yours, frankly, is the lowest quality glass and construction. Your friend did you no favors by giving you that scope, trust me. It is completely mismatched for a muzzleloader too.

Put some iron sights on the gun and learn to shoot them while you save your money for something better.

There are few shortcuts in the optics world. In general you get what you pay for. You paid nothing for that scope and got junk - no harm in that because at this point you haven't lost anything.

Servicable, reliable optics don't need to cost a fortune. The last 4 scopes I purchased were either used or new on ebay. I did not pay more than $200.00 for any of these - in fact the Nikon Pro-Staff was less than $100 and so was the used Burris. They have performed flawlessly to date

Nikon Buckmaster 3X9X40 (excellent used condition)
Nikon Pro-Staff 2X7X32 (new in the box)
Burris Fullfield II 3X9X40 ballistic plex (good used condition - some ring marks)
Bushnell Elite 3200 4X12X40 ballistic plex (new in the box)