jtkratzer
Well-Known Member
I've hunted in the past with hand-me-down rifles and scopes, mostly .30-30s and 3-9x40s or fixed 4xs and none of those scopes have been anything special, mostly the lower end Bushnell/Simmons. My fixed 4x is an old school Weaver scope, but I'm sure it's not really anything close to what you could call high end.
I'm going to be mounting a scope on a Remington Model Seven stainless in .260. This is primarily going to be a deer hunting rifle for the foreseeable future. I've been happy with my .30-30 in the past, killed a deer with it this year, but the areas I've started hunting offer longer shots than what the .30-30 can handle and I've been wanting a bolt gun with a flatter shooting cartridge.
There's a range about 20 miles away that goes out to 600 yards. I don't know that I'd get that kind of shot at deer, but who knows. This was the first year I had a license since 2007 for various reasons (Marine Corps had at least a little to do with it).
I've been looking (as in reading about them online) at Nikon Buckmasters and Monarch and Leupold VXII and VXIII scopes. Just trying to figure out what would suit my needs without buying too much scope or overpaying for glass I don't need. Only scopes I've looked through were a Nikon ProStaff 3-9x40 and a 2.5-8 Leupold after telling the sales guy at Cabela's I wanted something with more magnification than 9x. Obviously I didn't buy from the guy who wouldn't listen to what I at least wanted to see.
I still hunt, sometimes we'll do a small drive, I'll sit, tree stand, whatever. If I'm going to be in really thick stuff, I just take the .30-30 with the short barrel and quick action with the lever, but I'll probably give the .260 a try sometime since it's only a 20" barrel as well.
I'd like to get myself going with a reloading kit as well and trying to balance how much money I spend on a scope to make sure I have enough to do the reloading equipment as well. I found an RCBS kit with a trimmer and 750 scale and .260 dies for $515. Don't think I'll be able to do much better than that to get started.
So, I'm looking for recommendations on scopes for deer hunting...
I'm going to be mounting a scope on a Remington Model Seven stainless in .260. This is primarily going to be a deer hunting rifle for the foreseeable future. I've been happy with my .30-30 in the past, killed a deer with it this year, but the areas I've started hunting offer longer shots than what the .30-30 can handle and I've been wanting a bolt gun with a flatter shooting cartridge.
There's a range about 20 miles away that goes out to 600 yards. I don't know that I'd get that kind of shot at deer, but who knows. This was the first year I had a license since 2007 for various reasons (Marine Corps had at least a little to do with it).
I've been looking (as in reading about them online) at Nikon Buckmasters and Monarch and Leupold VXII and VXIII scopes. Just trying to figure out what would suit my needs without buying too much scope or overpaying for glass I don't need. Only scopes I've looked through were a Nikon ProStaff 3-9x40 and a 2.5-8 Leupold after telling the sales guy at Cabela's I wanted something with more magnification than 9x. Obviously I didn't buy from the guy who wouldn't listen to what I at least wanted to see.
I still hunt, sometimes we'll do a small drive, I'll sit, tree stand, whatever. If I'm going to be in really thick stuff, I just take the .30-30 with the short barrel and quick action with the lever, but I'll probably give the .260 a try sometime since it's only a 20" barrel as well.
I'd like to get myself going with a reloading kit as well and trying to balance how much money I spend on a scope to make sure I have enough to do the reloading equipment as well. I found an RCBS kit with a trimmer and 750 scale and .260 dies for $515. Don't think I'll be able to do much better than that to get started.
So, I'm looking for recommendations on scopes for deer hunting...