Personally unless buying secondhand from someone you know or trust is a gamble, 50% of the time it was traded because a new caliber tickles there fancy but the other 50% is it doesn't shoot or had problems, and sometimes they are only a few hundred dollars cheaper then a new one. There is some good reasonable priced glass out now at $2600 you could get a brand new howa around $1000 leaving 1600 for a scope a good secondhand leupold will fit into that price bracket and are know to have a good lifetime warranty where rifles dont
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