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Found a 4200 3-9x40 today on ####### for $250 snapped it up right away!
Cost for bushnell elite scopes?
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Something wrong, maybe - I think the first digit indicated the power change - so a 3-9 should be a 3###? 4### should be a 4x difference between low and highest power?? Maybe I am mistaken - never owned any of them...
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Hi Nelson, I think the 3200, then 4200, 6500 was tiers of scopes. 6500 was the flagship line back in the day. I know they made a 4200, 1.? to 6 power by 40?
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Here is the listing if anyone is wondering.
https://www.####### .ca/optics/rifle-scopes/annapolis-valley/bushnell-elite-4200
https://www.####### .ca/optics/rifle-scopes/annapolis-valley/bushnell-elite-4200
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Here is some more info https://gunnewsdaily.com/reviews/bushnell-elite-4200/
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Another one.
https://www.chuckhawks.com/bushnell_4200_3-9x40.htm
https://www.chuckhawks.com/bushnell_4200_3-9x40.htm
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Re-read that link - they mention many types - but no 4200 3-9x40. All that they list are multiples of 4 from lowest to highest power. I might be mistaken - is an easy mistype to list "4200" instead of "3200". I did not read your other links. I think the "tiers" were indicated by the second digit - X200, X300, X500, etc. I am likely mistaken ... As mentioned, I have never owned any - I do have a Bushnell 3200 10X fixed power, though.
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Maybe want to see what it says on end of the box and compare to what is says on the actual scope?? Not as if a particular scope could not be placed into another one's box?? A few days ago, I received a 4x32 Hensoldt scope in a Bushnell Banner box - whatever it says on the box does not mean much compared to what it says on that scope.
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I am just concerned that you may have bought something that is different than what you were lead to believe that you were buying. People apparently do that on purpose, or accidentally, or do not know any better ...
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That's ok. I'll report back when the scope comes in. $250 isn't bad even if it's a 3200.
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From my own experience, I could not say what is the difference - for all that I know is "just as good as". When you get it, shoot a grid - if it shoots good, then you have a good one, whatever the brand name or model number is. If it does not, then there is issues. But sales guys want to come up with new names / numbers / etc. to show how good "newer" is - does not actually often show to be true, but it sells stuff. Get one made in Japan, get next one made in Korea - give it a new model number and call it an improvement. A large number of the buying public will buy one scope, ever - based of off advertising that they see or read, and then will tell you how perfect that model is. Most will work fine, until they do not. Average guy fires 5 rounds a year from his 30-06 deer rifle - will take him 20 years to discover that his scope was built to handle 100 rounds of 30-06 recoil - by which time retailer, sales guy, etc. no longer involved...
Yeah. I am likely a cynical old guy - but have seen same, more than once over the years - cars, pickup, rifles, scopes - I DO NOT trust marketing/sales people!!!
Yeah. I am likely a cynical old guy - but have seen same, more than once over the years - cars, pickup, rifles, scopes - I DO NOT trust marketing/sales people!!!
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For sure! Bushnell released the new and "improved" 4500 series earlier this year. "Improved" for their bottom line since they are made in Korea not Japan.
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That is the issue that we are caught in - I am old enough to remember when "Made in Japan" meant the thing was a really cheap piece of junk - not like same thing made in USA or made in West Germany. Today can see multiple ads on CGN touting "Made in Japan" as if that is a sign of very high quality. I have no doubt that Japan makers went from pretty crappy to world class - and China and Korea will do the same. Today we think China made or Korea made is crap - 30 years from now, some of that will be the best made in the world. At our work place, a contractor was presenting about a radial arm milling machine they just received from West Germany - so out here in butt-fork nowhere prairie Saskatchewan, is a machinery maker with a world class milling machine. Will be same, no doubt, in China or Korea - buyers just have to step up and pay for quality, over quantity.
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That's for sure. If companies invest in the quality control and the machines, then the quality will become as good as stuff coming out of Germany and Japan.
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Actually, I disagree - is the buyer who must step up. If cheap "chit" is readily being bought, why would a profitable manufacturer change?? Only when a buyer knows what is, and insists on, "quality" will the manufacturers change. A buyer can not acquire Hensoldt quality, and then expect to pay Simmons or Barskara price for it.
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Yes, it's the consumer that decides on the quality. If people expect and pay for the stuff, then the manufactor will step up.
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The model numbers and magnification are not related in any way. 3200 vs 4200 was just the next step up like a VX1 vs VX2
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In what way? Do you have a 3 x power change version named 4200?? Or otherwise??
