Thread: Super budget scopes worth a try, or not?

I agree, horses for courses. The cheap scopes that I have had work ok at the bottom of the zoom range but are terrible towards the top. This makes buying a 6 - 24 x power cheap scope useless as anything above 12 x they start to lose clarity so really you don't have a 6 - 24 x power scope but a 6 - 12 x as that's all that is usable.

I have had good runs out of some cheap stuff and also had it fail on occasions. "You pays your money and you takes your chances"

Plinking and the odd walk round a farm then cheap will do the job.

High volume shooting ( central Otago rabbits ) cheap scope will die sooner or later and it's probably sooner, also it loses it's zero a lot.

Generally I find tough conditions needs a tough scope and that comes with a bigger price tag.