first rifle scope

will keep my eyes open for a vx2 2x7 or maybe even try the vx freedom. as far as rings go ive read good things about talley and optilock. not sure if one stands out over the other. does anyone think its worth mounting a base and rings instead?
 
jay smith said:
will keep my eyes open for a vx2 2x7 or maybe even try the vx freedom. as far as rings go ive read good things about talley and optilock. not sure if one stands out over the other. does anyone think its worth mounting a base and rings instead?
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I put a T3 hunter with VX2 in talley rings together for my brother and he is very pleased with it. I think it made a fine rig and offered to buy it back if he didn't like it, but he didn't take me up on it. The leupold scopes are light and have plenty of tube space for mounting rings and adjusting eye relief. I like the combined simplicity of the talley rings and have used them successfully on several rifles.
 
gunaddict99 said:
I put a T3 hunter with VX2 in talley rings together for my brother and he is very pleased with it. I think it made a fine rig and offered to buy it back if he didn't like it, but he didn't take me up on it. The leupold scopes are light and have plenty of tube space for mounting rings and adjusting eye relief. I like the combined simplicity of the talley rings and have used them successfully on several rifles.
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thanks. good to know they work. it looks like the talley rings will sit lower then the optilock as well.
 
figured id bring up my old post as its the same topic.
i went ahead and bought a vx freedom in 2x7 with the talley low rings. the rings them selves almost didn't need lapping. ive got everything leveled and torqued down with blue thredlocker on the reciever screws. ive boresighted the gun torqued the stock screws and ran and oiled followed by a dry patch down the barrel. not sure if i need to brake in the barrel. not sure if im missing anything else. im just starting out with federal blue box 150 grain.
thanks for everyones advice so far.
 
jay smith said:
I just picked up a tikka t3x hunter in 308.
I'm trying to decide what glass to get it. i want to set the gun up hunting opposed to target. the farthest my range goes is 300 yards and the hunting distance will probably be less then that. im a bit confused on how much i should be spending. i obviously want it to hold zero and dont want the glass fogging. the place where i got the gun showed me a few scopes i liked the Burris droptine over the vortex crossfire but there current selection sort of went up to the 1000.00 scopes with no middle priced ones. i didn't know leupold stopped making the vx2. i haven't herd a lot about the vx freedom. i did read good things about the droptine and fullfield scopes. i would appreciate opinions on this.
i am reading about scopes to get a better understanding.
thanks.
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For those that are curious, the VX-Freedom combined the VX-1 (tubes) and VX-2 (glass and internals) into one line of optics. All Leupold scopes are held the the same quality standard, and must survive the punisher impact testing (from the VX-Freedom all the way to a Mark 8). As always, every Leupold scope is guaranteed for life.

KGL
 
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