Nice AK!
Thanks for the info...
Thanks for the info...
Better late then never I guess. I like the Burris Fullfield TAC30 Tactical Rifle Scope. Easy to use, relatively good glass. I bit more than $200, though.I am considering a Burris or a Nikon, both with BDC or similar reticules. The Burris Droptine looks good on paper. What would be a good, under $200 scope for an MVP/5.56/.223?
I'm looking at the Vortex Viper PST 6-24x50 FFP with the EBR-2C (MOA) reticle. Not available yet but have an order in for one. I liked the prior version but wanted a different reticle. Will have to wait until it comes in to see how I like the new reticle (hard to tell from a picture on a computer screen).Stand, Drive and Track hunting Red Deer (Wapiti), Whitetail, Wild Boar, Badger, Fox, Scwewy Wabbits, Pheasants/Duck/Hare (12ga) mostly in hilly, wooded areas (over 600 mtrs) with some clearings/fields but also some hunting in mountainous regions for Mouflon and Chamois (distances up to 300 mtrs).
Bushnell Banner 3-9x40 on a Weatherby Vanguard 30.06
Zeiss Duralyt 3-12x50 (illuminated recticle) on a Mossberg 4x4 30.06
Zeiss Duralyt 3-12x50 on a Tika .308
NcStar Mark III 4-16x50 (Illuminated Rangefinder recticle) on a Erma Werke Lever Action 22SLR (Fun Gun)
'About to purchase' a Leupold VX-R 3-9x40 to place on a Blaser R93 .308
'Trying to decide' on something for my Remington 700 .270 win. Any thoughts?
Thanks for the insight. That's a really nice reticle, I'll bet that scope could work some magic sitting on a hunting rifleThis is the Steiner GS3, 4 - 20x50 hunting scope, which I actually bought as a target scope for my Savage 12, .223.
They say what makes it a great hunting scope is that it has special lens coatings designed to increase the contrast of game against the background. It looks great on their website but I have no idea how well it works in practice and I'm not a hunter so I will probably never find out.
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I put it on a long .223 target rifle, but the reticle is actually calibrated for a 22-250. The reticle is very fine. It looks much better than this web pic of it.
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Since I'm not actually hunting with it (only shooting on the fixed target range) I don't have to worry about the holdovers being off a little.
This scope normally list for almost $1,200 but I bought it at Sportsman's Warehouse as a display model for $799. Amazingly, the Savage it sits on lists for almost $1,200 but I bought it at Valley Rod & Gun in Clovis for $799 as well! I think that fact alone should have told me that this was a match made in heaven.
As for the "hunting optimized" lens coatings, I didn't notice anything too unusual on the target range. The reticle looked much better in the daylight that it did in the store.
What I did notice (and what you can't really tell in the store under fluorescent lights) is that this scope has terrific glass. I own 3 Leupolds, and a Vortex Diamondback HP, plus other cheapies like Tasco, Simmons, & Bushnel.
I compared it to Leupold, Vortex, Nikon, Swarovski, and Nightforce scopes in the store. What can I say... in the store they all looked terrific to me. It makes my Tasco scope look like a milk bottle.
I guarantee you will like the glass, and particularly if you can pick it up for $400 under the list price. I think it compared well to the Nightforce scopes at twice the price ($1500-$2000+!)
It has knobby quarter MOA tactical style turrets, underneath removable caps. The click-feel is good and while I didn't do a repeatability test they seemed to me very accurate. I didn't test the Zero-reset feature, but it has them.
I didn't have to play with the knobs that much because my boresighting was amazingly close. My second shot was on the paper at 50 yards, and I don't have a laser. All I did was look down the bore with my naked eye at an orange dot on the garage wall. 15 feet max. LOL I was so happy.
The zoom is very tight though. I thought it on the verge of too-tight, but it works well. It feels like a tight o-ring. Maybe it will loosen up.
The side focus seemed right on, but I didn't get to really test this on my first outing past 100 yards, as I only shot at the short range today.
I was very pleased to shoot this at 100 yards. 5 shots.
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This is the best shooting I have ever done in my life. And believe me it ain't because I have good eyes. My eyeglasses cost more than a Leupold VX-1, because that's the thinnest possible plastic $$$ they could use. View attachment 14266
It's a matter of three things:
Good ammunition which I loaded from scratch, a great gun which this Savage 12 low profile varminter is indeed, and a really terrific 20x scope!
Steiner is a German company and they make the glass in Germany but the scopes themselves are built in Colorado, USA. The warranty is forever (or until they go out of business) and follows the scope, not the owner. It covers everything except purposeful abuse.