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 03-03-2010, 02:54 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 175 |  To scope or not to scope....
So I just recently acquired a Marlin 795, I have yet to fire. I am planning on going thursday to the indoor range. I would like to get an inexpensive scope (more than likely the $30-$40 Bushnell at Walmart) and I realize inexpensive/cheap + Good Scope = laughable.
So my question is, if I buy an inexpensive scope from walmart is it just going to crumble to dust in my hands next month? Or Should I just see how I like my stock sights? __________________
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| 03-03-2010, 03:58 AM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,413 |
Those Bushnell rim-fire scope are a pretty fair value and you can't go wrong for fifty bucks. It's not like you going to shoot a speck of do do off a flies butt at 300 yards with a 22 anyway. I'd go for it. Joe __________________
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| 03-03-2010, 04:34 AM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 175 |
As long as I can put a hole between the eyes of my zombie target, I am happy. __________________
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| 03-03-2010, 04:41 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,413 |
There ain't a Zombie alive, I mean dead, that could survive that combination. __________________
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| 03-03-2010, 04:49 AM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 175 |
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Originally Posted by hunter Joe
There ain't a Zombie alive, I mean dead, that could survive that combination.
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I don't know, the people that watch Keith Olbermann are still moving.  __________________
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| 03-03-2010, 04:49 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Vancouver, WA Posts: 1,563 Liked 3 Times on 3 Posts
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Originally Posted by NymphoGnome
So I just recently acquired a Marlin 795, I have yet to fire. I am planning on going thursday to the indoor range. I would like to get an inexpensive scope (more than likely the $30-$40 Bushnell at Walmart) and I realize inexpensive/cheap + Good Scope = laughable.
So my question is, if I buy an inexpensive scope from walmart is it just going to crumble to dust in my hands next month? Or Should I just see how I like my stock sights?
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I've got a $500.00 Leupold VX 3 on my deer rifle and it's worth every penny. But it has a specific purpose, taking down white tailed bucks in low light conditions. The price you pay for any scope has to do with a couple of factors but it's mainly about light transmission and lens clairity and with scopes you get what you pay for...But that does not mean a $40.00 Bushnell isn't sufficient for a .22
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| 03-03-2010, 04:30 PM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Pueblo, Colorado Posts: 1,680 |
I've never put a scope on any of my .22s, but I use them mainly to practice for speed/mechanics. If you're using your .22 to practice for a similar center-fire rifle then I would set it up accordingly.
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| 03-03-2010, 05:40 PM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,413 |
Diggs, I had a bug up my a$$ this morning about closed minded people and was feeling a little ugly inside. Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. __________________
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| 03-03-2010, 06:06 PM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford, Virginia, The state of insanity. Posts: 14,049 |
For a plinker them bushnell reimfire scopes will do you just fine.
I have a scope on all but one of mine. I have a new addition to my rimfire stable and I need to figure out a good scope for it. | |
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| 03-03-2010, 07:33 PM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Pueblo, Colorado Posts: 1,680 |
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Originally Posted by hunter Joe
Diggs, I had a bug up my a$$ this morning about closed minded people and was feeling a little ugly inside. Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.
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I've never seen that one. They did a pretty good job with it though. Straight out of a horror flic.  | |
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