Super Sniper - Keep looking for something better anywhere close to the price

It also matters what you're shooting. If it's smaller caliber you're fine. However, shooting a .338 and up may cause a problem with cheaper glass

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Originally Posted by BaileyMoto

Find a $300 scope with mil turrets, illumination, zerostop, and FFP (or just mil turrets) and I will supply the trash can to put said scope in...

IMO, the "sweet spot" is about 1k for a scope with the frills... After that, it seems you are paying for much more minor improvements.

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Agreed, but I don't need those frills (or want them, even know what I would do with them, if I had them).

For a no-frills variable scope, it sounds like we agree that $250 or $300 seems to be the point where one starts "paying for much more minor improvements."

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Originally Posted by Supergrade

It also matters what you're shooting. If it's smaller caliber you're fine. However, shooting a .338 and up may cause a problem with cheaper glass

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I wonder about this.

AFAIK how hard a gun is depends a lot more on the recoil/cycling impulse(s) than the power of the caliber.

So, for example, over on TFL the old guys say that the M14 tends to wreck scopes because the recoil is followed by the shock of the bolt slamming back and forth, not because 7.62NATO is such a powerful cartridge.