Bushnell Scope advice

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toklat

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I just bought a 300 Rum Sendero and I am looking for a scope that I can use for long range hunting. I have heard good things about the Bushnell 3200& 4200 scopes. Do these scopes havea enough virtical adjustment for ranges out to a 1000 yards. also I heard that thier eye relief is less than some scope making it not as user friendly when shooting harder kicking rifles.
Does anyone have any experience or advice on a good scope that will do what I want it to do. My budjet anly alows me to spend about $500.
Thanks.
Toklat
 
Two things.......First, as much as I love the 4200, you may not have enough elevation to go that far. You may need a 30mm scope. Next, how accurate is the ultra mag at that distance. Just because it is flat shooting, does not mean it will be accurate. Flat trajectory without accuracy is meaningless.
 
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you spent good money for a nice gun and you wont to top it off with a garbage can.sound good to me.just my 2c
 
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I had a used Leupold and a new Zeiss fail on my .300 RUM I was able to take the Zeiss back to the store I bought it at and trade up to a Swarovski. End of problem. My point is, be carefull where you buy your scope. They can all fail? The .300 RUM does kick a little:(
 
If you go to the Bushnell website they have the elevation range and eye relief listed for their various scopes. I am very fond of the Bushnell 4200 series, they have proven to be very durable, read that as I have never had a problem with one, with a little careful shopping they can be had at very good prices. I really like the rainguard feature, the adjustments are always spot-on (I use mine for competition mostly and am constantly running the adjustment knobs), and optically they do not take a back seat to anyones product in or near their price range.

I have found that most people who bad-mouth them are basing their experience on a $29.95 blister-packed product that they bought at the local box-store and can't understand why it isn't any better than it is. When Bushnell dropped the Bausch & Lomb product name and renamed it as 3200 and 4200 Elites, to my mind, they would have been wise to market them as Elites and drop the Bushnell name from the product, that way many of the folks who automatically badmouth anything with Bushnell in the name would have been less likely to badmouth it just because it has Bushnell in the name.

I recently purchased a 4200 6-24 side focus and could not be happier with a scope, my next purchase will be one of their 6500 series scopes which have an elevation range of 80 inches.

While the 4200 series does have some limits to the elevation adjustment unless you are going to try to "click" up all the way from 100 to 1000 yds the most simple way to handle this is to use the Burris Signature rings with the off-set inserts and you can gain over 20 inches of elevation simply by switching inserts.

With all of that being said if you watch the ads quite ofter you will find Leupold 6-18 for around $350 to $375 and 6.5-20's for around $500 these may get you to 1000 if you plan on "clicking" up but be aware that if you chose to "click" up you will be at the top end of your adjustment and the scope will more than likely have sluggish response to to click-ups or may wander in horizontal as you move up and down. It is much better to optically center the scope as near as possible to the range you will be shooting.

Sorry for the long dissertation but I could not think of a way to respond that would be any less wordy.
 
Elite 6500 Changed my life

Kings and Queens step aside when they see my rifle mounted with
the Elite 6500 2.5x16x50MM . Big Ted you think Bushnell elite scopes are garbage cans? My 1st Elite 4200 6x24x40MM is going strong after brutal field usage for 8 years.
 
The Bushnell 6500's with 1/4" clicks will get to 1000

You don't have to worry about the Bushnell click repeatability, either.
 
Give the SWFA Super Sniper10X a try. I had one on my Ferret 50 BMG for 3 years with no problems. Its now mounted on a buddys 223 AR for hunting G-Hogs and coyotes.
 
What Sitting Duck said +1. It's good to have a fellow tell you about his speckled pup without bad mouthing the other man's dog with no information to back it up. :D
 
Top end bushnell scopes [ there 4500 on up] are great. The prices are resonable. If you only knew the mark up that leupold put on there products, on there top end scopes your looking at 450 to 500$$$ from manufacture to distributor. Distributor tacks on 100%. 1000$ scopes OMG . when a scope cost you more than a custom rifle. I refuse to pay those rats at leupold my hard earned money , also leupold only has 3 distributor in the U S there price control cant be messed with. Greedy people. Ive allready switched, no more leuplolds for me i dont like being robbed. Bushnells 6500 series, is a great repalcement. I love them, there customer service is great. Also there warranty is as good if not better than leupold. I know these prices are correct, i recieved by accident from 1 of leupolds reps there price list , after looking at the list, i thought great i can spend that $ on a VIII. Then i found out that i had to go threw there distributors.FORGET IT. Thought you should know.
 
Just received a 4.5x30x50MM Mil Dot Elite 6500

All I need to say is its "Bad to the Bone" Mil Dots are perfect size won't block out a distant squirrel .
 
I have a almost NIB leuie 6.5 x 20 for sale just barely above your price range
 
300 rum scope

have you been on longrangehunting.com? my brother and friends have several senderos. with the burris rings with the inserts you should get to 1000. get a vais brake on it first. it kicks a lot. the 300 rum is loud so wear both muffs and puffs.
 
sendero accuracy- CW

CWPINST said:
Two things.......First, as much as I love the 4200, you may not have enough elevation to go that far. You may need a 30mm scope. Next, how accurate is the ultra mag at that distance. Just because it is flat shooting, does not mean it will be accurate. Flat trajectory without accuracy is meaningless.
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MY brother and i and friends have 15 or 20 senderos. all shoot less than an inch. couple including of all caliber the 300 rum will shoot 1/2". without na brake i would not even fire a 300 rum
 
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