Varmint scope $250-500

[snert]

I have used several of the Bushnell models from Prostaff to Monarch and none were as well refined or as good as the Leupold, and none had the fov of the weaver.

 

[jghoghunter]

Check out on fleabay the Bausch & Lomb 6-24. If you watch you can get them anywhere from $250-400. No offense but they are nicer than any low end Nikon or Super Sniper that I have looked thru. I cannot say about the vortex I have not looked thru any of them. You would not be disappointed with the B&L.
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I had one, and it had nice glass, but it had a total of 20 moa of elevation.... which limits the use for long range shooting.


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If u need extra elevation, get a MOA base or Burris sign rings.


I went out to my gun room and got out the oldest B&L 6-24 that I have and cranked it top to bottom twice and came up with 56 moa twice. It has .25 moa clicks every 4 clicks is a minute and when you count them there is 12 moa per revolution. There was 4 complete revolutions plus 8 more minutes. 20 moa just didn't seem right it would take more than that to get to 900 yds with my 220 weatherby rocket and we killed pd out past 900 with both of them.

 

[Gary in MD]

For a mid priced scope, I've been liking the Weavers also. I have a couple Grand Slams and a Super Slam. Pretty good Japanese glass and very good repeatable click adjustments. Natchez has them on sale quite often.
Gary

 

[Bangs OH]

Take a look at the Sightron SII 6-24x. Only draw back might be the AO instead of the side adjustment. Comes in duplex, mil dot and .15 target dot. The dot is a little big for target shooting but is excellent for varmints.

Love my side-focus scopes, but these SII BIG SKY AO models are hard to beat. Plenty of accurate adjustment (1/8" clicks), very good glass. And, Japanese - not Chinese. I have a 4-16X and plan to get the 6-24 MilDot through LongRangeHunting's store; best price I've seen yet, just at your budget max.
Also - and not being snarky, just helpful - there is an "Optics" section on this site now; might get more responses.

 

[mshelton]

I buy used scopes. I love the target model vari x 2 6-18. I have two that I got for $400 each. I also like the Weaver T series, if you are ok with one power. The 24 is a fine scope, good glass and tracks wonderfully. A T-10 is a great find as well...used on my short range varminters with great success.

I have only had one Leupold that was a problem and it was fixed by Leupold for free in 3 weeks.

This.

Find a used 6.5-20 vx3 or variant, send it Leupold first thing and ask them to check the tracking and paralax adjustment, receive your good as new scope back within a month and commence to killing critters.

 

[th82457]

I like the 6x24 Bushnell Elite 4200 for brightness. Nikon Monarch's are bright also. The Weaver V24 is one of my favorites for the money, not as bright as the former, but repeatable, reasonably priced and not excessively long or heavy. Also have a variety of available reticles. All of these are available in your stated price range.

 

[DogBuster]

Vortex HST 4-16...or 6-24......yes turrets

Call Doug @ Cameraland.........

 

[bheadboy]

go to Gun Broker, an look for a 6.5x20 Leupold, they are usually in the top of your price range and a very good glass. also check Ebay the leupold used is still under the lifetime warranty

Bob

 

[wyoming .260]

The last Leupold I bought was a pig. An expensive pig at that. The factory showed no interest in making good.

In moderately priced scopes, Weaver has always impressed me.

I used a 6-24x weaver with a varminter reticle for a few season and it was a good scope , just did not have enough adjustment range for my purposes. Otherwise I was completely happy with it.

 

[hogpatrol]

Another vote here for the Sightron Big Sky line. I have a few and they have a good range of adjustment and decent glass.

 

[Screamineagle]

Very happy with my Vortex Viper 6.5-20X44. Vortex has a great drop chart calculator, and one of the best warranties in the business!

 

[AckleymanII]

I would suggest that you do a google search on "Burris Signature 6x24 x 44mm"

Made in USA

The older scopes with the light collector on the end are battle tanks.

Good luck

 

[snert]

I got a Vortex 6-20 44 for 300 from cameraland a while ago...closeout. Very nice. Good glass (not awesome) and good mildot set up. Comparable to the Weaver GS.

 

[Tommie]

The last Leupold I bought was a pig. An expensive pig at that. The factory showed no interest in making good.

In moderately priced scopes, Weaver has always impressed me.

Interesting comment concerning the Leupold would you care to give some details rather than just making a negative statement. Leupold is known for having the best customer service in the business this is very strange indeed.

drover

Sure. Can do.

It's a VX-3 6.5-20 SF with varmint hunter reticle. The reticle is canted to the right. Haven't measured how many degrees but definitely enough to notice. The really aggravating flaw involves the side focus. When the sight picture is clear, there's noticable parallax. Adjust to eliminate parallax and then the target gets blurry. I tried all the focus tricks but nothing worked.

I contacted Leupold regarding these issues. I was told that I don't know how to adjust for parallax and all reticles are tested before leaving the factory. The discussion started to turn into a debate so I gave up.

Maybe I bought an extremely rare Leupold lemon. Maybe I found the one lousy customer service rep there. Maybe I should have forced the issue. But come on, this is supposed to be a higher end product with legendary customer care.

I have no ax to grind. Just clarifying. Hope this helps the OP in his decision.

 

[snert]

The last Leupold I bought was a pig. An expensive pig at that. The factory showed no interest in making good.

In moderately priced scopes, Weaver has always impressed me.

Interesting comment concerning the Leupold would you care to give some details rather than just making a negative statement. Leupold is known for having the best customer service in the business this is very strange indeed.

drover

Sure. Can do.

It's a VX-3 6.5-20 SF with varmint hunter reticle. The reticle is canted to the right. Haven't measured how many degrees but definitely enough to notice. The really aggravating flaw involves the side focus. When the sight picture is clear, there's noticable parallax. Adjust to eliminate parallax and then the target gets blurry. I tried all the focus tricks but nothing worked.

I contacted Leupold regarding these issues. I was told that I don't know how to adjust for parallax and all reticles are tested before leaving the factory. The discussion started to turn into a debate so I gave up.

Maybe I bought an extremely rare Leupold lemon. Maybe I found the one lousy customer service rep there. Maybe I should have forced the issue. But come on, this is supposed to be a higher end product with legendary customer care.

I have no ax to grind. Just clarifying. Hope this helps the OP in his decision.

I like Leupolds but the canted crosshair issue is documented

 

[mshelton]

The last Leupold I bought was a pig. An expensive pig at that. The factory showed no interest in making good.

In moderately priced scopes, Weaver has always impressed me.

Interesting comment concerning the Leupold would you care to give some details rather than just making a negative statement. Leupold is known for having the best customer service in the business this is very strange indeed.

drover

Sure. Can do.

It's a VX-3 6.5-20 SF with varmint hunter reticle. The reticle is canted to the right. Haven't measured how many degrees but definitely enough to notice. The really aggravating flaw involves the side focus. When the sight picture is clear, there's noticable parallax. Adjust to eliminate parallax and then the target gets blurry. I tried all the focus tricks but nothing worked.

I contacted Leupold regarding these issues. I was told that I don't know how to adjust for parallax and all reticles are tested before leaving the factory. The discussion started to turn into a debate so I gave up.

Maybe I bought an extremely rare Leupold lemon. Maybe I found the one lousy customer service rep there. Maybe I should have forced the issue. But come on, this is supposed to be a higher end product with legendary customer care.

I have no ax to grind. Just clarifying. Hope this helps the OP in his decision.

You may not know this but you don't need to talk to a rep to send a scope in for service, just write down what's wrong and ship it. I had one that I could never get the paralax straight on it, wrote that on a note and shipped it to them, 4 weeks later the scope returned and the issue was fixed. Your mileage may vary but I'd rather get the scope to the people that can actually fix it in stead of talking to some phone monkey.