Experience with lower end bushnells

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powdergun

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I know you get what you pay for but all I need is a fixed 4X scope for shooting under 200M. If the scope will hold its zero after sighting in and be reasonably clear thats all I need.

How have you fellas found the lower end bushnells for doing this. I know Leupold and Weaver make a nice product but I really don't want to spend much.

I found an old Japanese made tasco that fits the bill for $30 but these scopes are few and far between. Just wondering what the new trophy series and similar line were like.
 
I have a Bushnell Sportsman 3-9 (about $50) that I've had sitting on my 303 British for 6 or 7 years now (that 303 and scope was my main hunting rig for 5 years). It's seen a lot of use and abuse, and other than having to re-zero it once after dropping it bell-first on a rock a couple years ago, it's served me very well. I have also had 2 more of these same scopes, one on an air rifle, and another on The Wife(tm)'s 303 -- they worked fine as well.

That said - a Bushnell Sportsman is NOT first, or even second class glass -- but, you can see to aim through them, and mine have all held zero (other than the rock-drop incident already mentioned), had repeatable adjustments, and I have killed many an animal looking through one of them.

For a hunting gun, I like the Sportsman line better than the more expensive Banner line, simply because the sportsman line doesn't have the plastic adjustment turret housing like the Banner's do. The Sportsman's all-aluminum tube+turret construction just looks sturdier to me.

I also have a Trophy 1.75-5. I haven't used it much, but it seems fairly nice to look through and has held zero for me.

Mileage may vary.
 
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I have a Bushnell Trophy on a Lee-Enfield and it works as well as it should. But there isn't a fixed 4x in the Trophy series, is there? I think you have to go lower down the Bushnell heirarchy for a fixed power and I don't know about them, but a fixed power is simpler so at whatever level of quality it can be made and sold for less.
 
I have bushnell 3200 on my hunting rifle Ruger M77 SS. Bought it for $250 only. Works great. Zeroed it once for 200 yards and never touched after that.
 
I have a trophy 3-9x40 on my .22. No complaints there. I also used to have a sportsman 3-9x40 on my old .303, that thing was horrible, would not hold zero from shot to shot.
 
I have used banner and dusk till dawn. They're okay, if your on a budget, go ahead, they'll do you ok for as long as you need.

I currently use a 3-7 tasco canadian tire piece of crap on my 10.22 and its fine for bush hunting, but nothing compared to my VXII
 
powdergun,

Grouse River in Kelowna stocks vortex optics and I believe they do ship across Canada.

you can check em out at: ht tp://www.grouseriver.com/

just enter it without the spaces.
 
most bushnell scopes that are made in japan are pretty good, there not in the same class as leupold but they will do the job, i had a old banner on my 22-250 for 15 years and never had to adjust it once it was set and i had that rifle on my back many, many times when i was on a 4-wheeler or snowmobile
 
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