Burris Eliminator Laserscope Review

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This past year, while preparing for an antelope and prairie dog hunt with long time hunting buddy, Steve Hugel from Colorado, I installed a 4-12x Burris Eliminator optic on my BAT rear-grip specialty handgun, chambered in 7mm WSM. The fitting and chambering of this 1:9 twist Bartlein barrel and brake were done by Eric Wallace of Nawakwa Accuracy. I am using H-1000 powder, Winchester brass, Federal 210 Match primers, and 180-grain Bergers for a muzzle velocity of 2570 fps. Chuck from Mac's Gunworks had originally chambered this rig as a 6.5 Leopard (WSM), and put a Cerakote camouflage finish on the McRee stock and fitted it to the action at that time. I had wanted to try out this scope in the field, and this was the perfect opportunity. Read More...

This is a thread for discussion of the article, Burris Eliminator Laserscope Review, By Ernie Bishop. Here you can ask questions or make comments about the article.

 

[Natman]

Does the Burris eliminator scope have adequate eye relief for a .300 weatherby.

 

[Buttermilk]

I see Burris is coming out with an updated version of the Eliminator.

Be interested in seeing how this version compares to the older one.

Regards
Rog

 

[TXshooter]

Does the Burris eliminator scope have adequate eye relief for a .300 weatherby.

I know it's not quite the weatherby but I shoot this on a 300 win mag and it's no problem more than enough I don't see why it wouldn't work on the weatherby. Love this scope by the way.

 

[springcitydoc]

I was watching the burris interview at the shootin' show pertaining to the Eliminator, they were introducing the new 2012 model 4-16x50 scope which I love and Burris upgraded the 4-12x42 model so you are able to range in "any" power now. That is one upgrade I really like.

 

[springcitydoc]

I was watching the burris interview at the shootin' show pertaining to the Eliminator, they were introducing the new 2012 models 4-16x50 scope which I love and Burris upgraded the 4-12x40 or is it 42 model?, anyway Burris biggest change is the capability to range in "any" power now. That is one upgrade I really like. That is the only reason I held off buying one. Given that the Burris scope have two functions and with the 4-12x42 listing for $799 and the 4-16x50 is $1499. I consider these pair of scopes to be very reasonably priced. What do you all think?

 

[Rupe]

I know this is an old post but to answer your question. Not in my life time. I can not justify spending over $1400.00 on a scope. As much as I like this Burris, I just can't afford it. What a bummer! But I would gladly except one as a gift!
Rupe

 

[8311950]

I just got a eliminator 3 and put it on a 22-250 savage just to see how it worked. It was very easy to set up and it took 5 shots to zearo it at 100 yds. I shot 500 yds and was 2" from bullseye, 400 yds I was 1", 300 yds lower corner of bullseye, 200 yds bullseye, 150 yds bullseye and 100 yds bullseye. Yesterday it was in the high 60's in Maryland and I took it groundhog hunting. Shot one at 230 yds and one at 411 yds. It worked fine but on a hog at 411 yds the red dot covered the ground hogs body but still worked. I am going to put it on my 338 Lapua for crop damage for latter in the year but I want to get use to it before I shot a deer out to 900 yds. Has anyone used this scope for long range deer?

 

[overbore]

Looking seriously at this scope but have two Q's:
How is it mounted securely? and
Is the max drop internal calculation set at 500 yards?

Laus Deo
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[overbore]

Cheated and went to the Burris Optics home page where that is tons of great info. Mounting must be to a one or two pc rail mount. They claim yardage out to 1,200 but it requires a drop chart as th aiming dot will not get us there. Wind must be measured then corrected by means of a Mil Dot Master.
If there are ample Joe Hunter positive reports it looks good but durability is an open issue for me.

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[overbore]

Scope body is 30mm but no scope level device can be fitted to it; however, a Weaver style rail mount level does fit and is ordered.Since I am using Berger 190gr bullets, their homepage ballistics calculator helps get the 750 yard drop data needed to program this good scope.
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[8311950]

Scope body is 30mm but no scope level device can be fitted to it; however, a Weaver style rail mount level does fit and is ordered.Since I am using Berger 190gr bullets, their homepage ballistics calculator helps get the 750 yard drop data needed to program this good scope.
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I have set it up on my 338 Lapua savage for crop damage and i can shoot out to 1156 yds with the ballistics on my bullet. I kept one on my 22-250 and it works great. I also put a 3-10x44 eliminator 2 on my savage muzzle loader and it shoots out to 328 yds. They have been good to me!!

 

[overbore]

That is what I call real world field tests. What figure did you use for scope height . 1.5" or ????
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[overbore]

The forum has listed me as a silver member; however, I should be called a metallic member as I have silver in my hair, gold in my teeth an lead in my *** etts.
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