Thread: new scope on a modest (low) budget

Originally Posted by huglife

What should I get for my 308?
My current toss up is between a Nikon prostaff or leupold vx-1 or 2

Anybody had experience with the nikons?

I am going to advocate a different view to some that has been expressed in this thread.

Scope these days have so many different features and attributes. much of what you pay does not go into simple glass clarity. Every additional feature cost money to make and cost money to buy, therefore it is important to know exactly (or in the ball park) of what feature matters to you and therefore you need or want it, and what does not matter.

For example, is extra magnification important to you? I for one, do not like 3-9. I am short sighted and am too used to shooting bigger magnifications. My 7mm-08 sports a Bushnell Elite 6500 4.5-30. Other people can do excellently using just 3-9.

So, if you do not want features such as zero-stop, 50mm objective, 15x magnification, 5x zoom range, FFP, then for the same money or slightly less amount of money you could get a better scope. On the other hand if you bought a scope with all these modern day features without being the top of the line (but is the most that you could afford), optics quality may suffer a little.