Reeder Custom Guns - Burris Scope suggestions

A few months ago I bought a used T/C Encore in a rifle configuration that had a Burris Short Mag 2-7 scope. I pulled the scope and mounted it on another rifle and took it to the range and couldn't even get on paper at 25yds. So long story longer, suspecting the scope was blown, I sent it to Burris and they notified me today that it was indeed blown. And since it is an older model scope that they no longer carry they cannot replace it or repair it, but could exchange something similar or upgrade and pay the difference.

So any input on a Burris rifle scope? I will probably use it on a 30-06.

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About them. I have 4 of them. They come in both front focal plan and rear focal plane. As clear at 10 yards as at 400 yards. Parallax adjustment knob 50 to infinity.

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of the picture for another couple of months, they are probably one of the finest made. BUT I have reservations about the company itself. Back in the late 70s nobody had heard of Burris except handgun hunters. They made great handgun scopes in 1X, 2X, 3X and so on up to 10X along with 3 variables,, so they were the most popular scopes going. Handgun hunters put them on the map. Recently in the last few years they have thrown the handgun hunters under the bus. Except for the long eye relief 2X they have dropped all the rest of the line up of long eye relief scopes (LER). Instead they introduced a couple of intermediate eye relief (IER) scopes that are great for shooting at the bench but useless in the field. I have written them letters but never got an answer.

In the past I have bought a lot of LER Burris handgun scopes off the internet and if they had problems they fixed them under their "lifetime warranty". These days they tell me they have no parts for LER scopes so you are shit outa luck. Their "lifetime warranty" is obviously for the lifetime of a mouse, not people.

So yes their rifle scopes are excellent. I just don't like the folks that make the decisions.

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Handgun Hunting, which is when I started shooting with scopes, the options were very limited. Made it easier for me to choose, but now that I am putting scopes on a few rifles I see how the options for rifle scopes are drastically more than handguns. But I guess thats what the oddball handgun hunters get. Every time I tell people I hunt with a handgun I always get a confused reaction, like they didn't even know it was a possibility.

Burris Scope suggestions

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