Originally Posted By: Cranesville HunterOriginally Posted By: VarminterrorPersonally, the price of the rifle should have no bearing on the price of the scope - the only way both are related is that both are dependent upon your budget and your application. If you buy a cheap rifle because you have a small budget, then you likely are going to buy a cheap scope, which is OK, to some extent.
Lots of guys use the philosophy a scope should cost as much as the rifle on which you put it - I don't buy that, because I have a couple $5k rifles with $1,500 scopes, and I have a couple $500 rifles with $1,000 scopes, neither of which are really mis-matched for my applications.
The scope is for the shooter, not for the rifle. It doesn't matter how expensive or how cheap the rifle is, you have to be able to see to be able to shoot. It makes far more sense to put a $1,000 scope on a $150 rifle than it does to put a $150
scope on a $1,000 rifle. If you can't see, you can't aim, if you can't aim, you can't hit. It's really simple. The scope is the feedback control interface between the rifle and the shooter - it's the only ruler (12") you have to be able to measure your aim (whether your rifle is pointed at the target or not). Your trigger then is your permissive control - so the trigger is for the shooter
too, not for the rifle. The trigger is what lets you tell the rifle to do work once you're satisfied with the "readout" in the scope - if the trigger causes a disturbance to a solid hold, it'll cause errors, no matter how good the rifle or scope or shooter are.
I will try this again, well said!
Well said!
Good glass and good triggers - that's the cheapest way to coax accuracy out of any rifle.
