Does a 300.00 rifle, 600.00 scope, Pics and video...

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This year at the range, i had the occasion to shoot 5 Axis and a couple of 111 Savage, and i find that those rifle are real accurate right out of the box, all of them were MOA or better with factory ammo, one of my friend wanted a 300 mag for hunting, he had a 1000.00 budget and he told me, fix me something good so i ordered a 111 Package 300 mag, did put at Weaver MOA piccinaty rail, Millet rings, chinese bipod and a Zeiss 3X9X40, this rig with 180 gr SST ammo was .75, ( just called me thursday to say, he had kill a nice moose and that he love is 300 mag) this rig impress me so much that i builded another one after that ecxatly the same, now all the Axis i did shoot this year would deserve good rings and a Zeiss or any other quality scope, those rifles will outperformed more espensive rifle with cheap glass, just thought, i'd share that with you... JP.
 
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Yes, as long as the 300 $ rifle isn't a POS.
(I have a Sav 111F with Bausch Balvar scope which cost $250 about 15 years ago. So if the gun is accurate its worth putting a decent to high quality scope on her.)
 
I find it depends on what you're doing with it. I will put a good quality scope on any rifle i plan on hunting with, and if i did long range/competition shooting i would probably get an even higher end scope for that. I have a few rifles though that are just cheap, fun to shoot at the range guns that i don't really plan to ever hunt with, and i can't see me ever putting a real expensive scope on them. If i am at the range and one of the cheap scopes break, i usually have 3 or 4 guns at the range anyway, so i'm not stuck in any way.
 
I agree for plinking it is less important but what i had in mind writing the tread was for a hunting rifle... JP.
 
"All my rifles have Leupold scopes on them"! Just as Dan Aykroyd of Cabela's in the murder capital said to me one day at the gun counter! Well, mine too! Speaking of Brian, I haven't seen him for quite some time, does anyone know if he is still at Cabela's Wpg? If not, where did he go?
 
+1 Raton 57: good glass makes any good shooting gun a pleasure to shoot; there are lots of $300 rifles that can outshoot $1000 rifles, so why not, if you happen to have one of the good, cheap ones?
 
The 10 minutes more at dusk and dawn of seeing tru your scope because it is a clarity of the glass will make a difference on your hunting, even the most expensive rifle wont hit what you cant see... JP.
 
forsure if you have a rifle that shoots well it will likely shoot better with good glass. Ultimately the better you can see your target and the more precise the adjustments on the scope, will always equate to better accuracy so long as the firearm is capable. With that said a $2000 dolllar scope will never make a smoothbore shotgun shoot MOA.
 
A good quality scope will also show you what the rifles true potential is, a 29.99 no name POS scope will leave you wondering. Also, a good scope can always be placed on a different rifle if that 300.00 dollar rifle turns out to be a scattergun.
 
In answer to your question, Does a 300.00 rifle deserve a 600.00 scope...Gotta' say yes. Did for me. Some time back I picked up a Savage 112 BVSS in 25-06 after seeing how well the same rifles in 22-250 did for my Daughter and Son In Law. I put a Leupold 6.5-20 VX III Long Range scope on it

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and wasn't disappointed. 185yds and pardon the homemade target.

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A low priced rifle may be a sound, reliable shooter.
A cheap scope? Very poor economy.
It is not only the quality of the glass, it is whether or not the thing is going to keep working properly.
 
Price tends to correlate with quality, but is not a guaranteed indicator. I'd equip a rifle with a scope I think is good enough for what I think the gun should do. If it costs more than the gun, that's what it costs.
 
rral22 said:
Quality optics are their own reason for being. So, yes.
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That's how I look at it too. The scope is by no means tied to that rifle for life, so why not? My CZ .22 wears a scope worth twice what the rifle is, and it's a pleasure to shoot.
In this day and age, pretty much everyone has an eye on cost, but ideally you'd pony up for the scope that looks good to you, not try to backward engineer things by picking an arbitrary number and shopping at that price point.
 
100% YES!!! Actually your eyes deserve it too!

It's like having piss poor tires on a AWD vehicle in winter, ain't much good if you can't utilize the power you have.

The last link between you and the game is that picture in the scope.Light gathering , repeatability , clearness , contrast , eye relief are all qualities that increase with cost/value, and all those factors are important in a hunting optic IMO.

Everybody looks at me funny when I say I have a $700 scope on my $400 Savage93........................then they try it, then they don't look at me so funny.;)
 
absolutely yes,

makes a lot more sense to have a cheap, but decent rifle and a very good scope than buying the 800 rifle and putting a Bushnell $150 scope on it.

When I first came to Canada, fresh out of grad school I had no money and a mortgage; a savage package deal was all I could afford.
Hunted with it for some years and put deer in the freezer.
Once I could afford it I put a Zeiss scope on it.
Still have it and hunt with it even though today I own some Sakos and Mausers too.
 
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