Burris

  I can highly recommend the Burris scope.  I have also looked through the Pentax, also very nice.  I do not believe that Burris makes Pentax, and I have not remarked about any similarities, but they are both made in USA, so if you have any problems they are a local call away, not having to deal with overseas operators and exhorbitant rates is a GODsend, if you ask me...  I only hav a 6-24X44mm on my own .22-250, and have found that it is more than adequate for the shooting I do off of a tripod.  Too much magnification can put you at odds with the mild recoil of such a gun as this.  Yes I know it is mild, but at 24 power I lose my sight picture temporarily and have to have a buddy give me a spot with binocular beofre I know if I hit it at over 300 yards out to 500 yards.  Or I have to dial down the scope and reacquire the target.

                Scott

Hello Hangfire,

          I have not ever had to get a scope serviced.  Maybe you have had to do so and can say without reservation that all servicing goes on in this country, with 800 numbers and the like.  All I can say is that the quality of the scopes I have bought; all American made, have never had to leave my gun once properly installed, and sighted in.  I am not shooting just small easy kicking calibers either.  I have a .25-' 06, two .30-' 06's, and a .300 Win Mag.  None have ever gone off the gun in question, and all guns have shot more  than 5 boxes of ammo per year.  That is for all who don't understand, better than 100 + rounds of ammo.  Leupold VariX- III's and Burris SIgnatures is everything.  NO point in buying a scope t hat has less than a forever warranty on it, if you build the things so that you never have to worry about them.

          THe one exception I have had was a handgun heads up display sight-in unit.  That is all.  I found out that you have to send that one out to Japan.  If you can get it serviced here, I would probably buy it, but since it was a lot of money to be putting down on something so small, I figured that I did not want to wait for it to go over there and then come back.

           Yes you can always buy cheaper, you can even buy more expensive than I have bought.  But the buck's rub to me comes down to not having to constantly service the scope that is there primarily for pleasure, and gives you the degree of full field of crystal clear view, and repeatable, respectable adjustments...   So that I can see clearly with it, and not fuss with any of it.  I don't ever sell my guns, so my kids, and their kids will have them if we are still alowed to own any guns then... Who knows? 

            I spent my time declaring that I will never spend more than two hundred bucks on a sight, that I look through 10- 30 times/year when I first started really shooting and reloading.  That all went buy the wayside when I had spent money for a Bushnell 3200 in 4-12X  scope with Rainguard on it.  It was a clear field of view scope, all the way out to the edges.  But, I don't know what it was, if I looked through that thing for more than 2 hours, it gave me such a splittting headache.  I used it atop my groundhog-go-gettum'-gun.  (.22-250)... At that time I did not have a decent binocular to look through.  I was still buying crappy hi mag power for little money, so I would use the scope.  WHen the problem was there for more than 5 sessions of 3 hours each consistantly, then I went to my local gun shop and traded what I had for Leupold, and the problem dissappeared never to return again.  I guess it boils down to your shooting frequency, and how much you want your gun to be worth with whatever scope you have...If you are tough on guns, an iron sight is still respectable and will never fog up... Is useable in low light, and is included with the purchase of some guns.

              Hope this helps you.  

What brand was the heads up display that required a trip overseas?  Just curious.  All major companies have a large U.S. presence that includes warranty repair facilities.  Shipping would absolutely kill the bottom line.  The Bushnell Holosight and EOTech are both heads up display holographic sights and are both warrantied in the U.S. FWIW.

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