Hi I'm looking to break the cycle of people buying high dollar scopes just because of there name,
Binoculars and spotting scopes as well, wasting hard earned cash on stuff they don't need. Also just because something isn't expensive doesn't mean it isn't high quality, perfect example a Honda in 1985 cost anywhere from 1500-3000 new, I've owned 3 CRX's and one prelude and paid on average 1000 for them high value low cost. Honda to sell cars and to be competitive sold better cars than others for half the cost, and they had already established themselves as a great brand with 30 years in the car business.
My point is if you are a benchrest shooter or even a hunter a $1500 leupold isn't needed, under most circumstances if you are in extreme conditions a nicer scope might be warranted, I just bought a Tasco 2.5-10x42mm mil-dot scope for my AR-15 I went to a few local gun stores and was looking at 2-300 dollar nikons bushnells and othwrs, I wanted a mil dot so my choices were limited hunting scopes arent mil-dots usually I was even considering a $500 swarfvsky, then a guy shopping reccomended the Tasco I didn't even look at because it was $99 and I assumed it was a joke, however it had crisper glass with clarity at all ranges and no fuzzy ring on the outside edge at max power and the turrets had set screws to zero the windage and elevation even the $500 scope didn't have that, also the paralax ring and the power ring moved smoother, and didn't have the little bit of play so when you turn the focus ring every milimeter of movement in both directions moves the lense, the other 200-300 scopes had a little slop in the focus ring so if you don't have the lense snug the focus ring and fire it can can't and shift out of focus.
Basically the Tasco was the best product for my needs and it was the cheapest, and scince the $500 sollar scope was the only a little better than what I got, I just saved $400 and now I can buy a 20" bushmaster upper with a bull barrel and a 1-8 twist .
So if you've found a fantastic product for a great price reply to this post I put it in optics because the product I found that hit waaay above its wieght class so to speak was the Tasco 2.5x10-42mm scope they also have a 6-24x50 that is my scopes big brother and it is I think around $120.
So don't buy for a name buy whatever has quality, I'm looking for a great light set of varible power bino's 10-30x 30 or a nice variable monocular like 7-21x-whatever. I don't want to spend more than 60
Thanks guys
Binoculars and spotting scopes as well, wasting hard earned cash on stuff they don't need. Also just because something isn't expensive doesn't mean it isn't high quality, perfect example a Honda in 1985 cost anywhere from 1500-3000 new, I've owned 3 CRX's and one prelude and paid on average 1000 for them high value low cost. Honda to sell cars and to be competitive sold better cars than others for half the cost, and they had already established themselves as a great brand with 30 years in the car business.
My point is if you are a benchrest shooter or even a hunter a $1500 leupold isn't needed, under most circumstances if you are in extreme conditions a nicer scope might be warranted, I just bought a Tasco 2.5-10x42mm mil-dot scope for my AR-15 I went to a few local gun stores and was looking at 2-300 dollar nikons bushnells and othwrs, I wanted a mil dot so my choices were limited hunting scopes arent mil-dots usually I was even considering a $500 swarfvsky, then a guy shopping reccomended the Tasco I didn't even look at because it was $99 and I assumed it was a joke, however it had crisper glass with clarity at all ranges and no fuzzy ring on the outside edge at max power and the turrets had set screws to zero the windage and elevation even the $500 scope didn't have that, also the paralax ring and the power ring moved smoother, and didn't have the little bit of play so when you turn the focus ring every milimeter of movement in both directions moves the lense, the other 200-300 scopes had a little slop in the focus ring so if you don't have the lense snug the focus ring and fire it can can't and shift out of focus.
Basically the Tasco was the best product for my needs and it was the cheapest, and scince the $500 sollar scope was the only a little better than what I got, I just saved $400 and now I can buy a 20" bushmaster upper with a bull barrel and a 1-8 twist .
So if you've found a fantastic product for a great price reply to this post I put it in optics because the product I found that hit waaay above its wieght class so to speak was the Tasco 2.5x10-42mm scope they also have a 6-24x50 that is my scopes big brother and it is I think around $120.
So don't buy for a name buy whatever has quality, I'm looking for a great light set of varible power bino's 10-30x 30 or a nice variable monocular like 7-21x-whatever. I don't want to spend more than 60
Thanks guys