Which bushnell elite 3200

  I've dealt with a few like your friend before. LOL  Can be frustrating!

  The price of a 3200 4-12 is $320 at SWFA.  If it was me I'd go another $80 for this:

Bushnell made a Elite 3200 with a 3-9x50 30 mm tube with a post reticle.This scope has given me many years of good deer hunts.The post reticle is very good in low light.

Well I finally talked my buddy into buying a new scope for his Browning 7mm. I told him about the bushnells scopes but he decided to purchase a Zeiss 3-9x50 Z600. Going to take the Nikon off of the Browing 7mm and put it on his sons Remington 270 bolt action. His son is needing it pretty bad. I was going to sight in his sons gun that has a simmons scope on it. Well I got the gun setup on the bags first then went to check for paralax. HOLLY CRAP!!!!! Without touching the gun looking thru the scope I moved my head side to side and the crosshair would acutally move off of the 48"x48" cardboard target at 100yrds. Thats terrible!! Not only that but when I would turn the power ring which is a 3-9, I could not get both. If I could see the crosshair I couldn't see the target or if I turned it to see the taget then the crosshair would fade out. I just told him I wasn't going to waste my time or his ammo. So now he has a new Zeiss coming and his son will get his Nikon. Oh!!! I almost forgot he is going to be proud owner of a gun cleaning kit to. Proud to see the gun will finally get a good cleaning for the first time in it's life. I'm wondering! Has his truck ever seen a oil change. 

Originally posted by hawkman I have a buddy looking to buy a scope for his Browning bolt action 7mm mag. Knowing him he is not wanting to spend a bunch of money. Around here alot of people will spend 800 to a 1000 one a good gun but hate to spend over 100 on a scope. Just pisses me off. Oh yeah I shot the Browning and asked if it had been cleaned so I could start fresh to sight it in for him. He said no. I asked if he knew how to take the bolt out. He said no. I told him well when you clean it clean it from the action end and not the muzzle end, so you don't mess up the crown of the barrel. I said so you never took the bolt out so you must have been cleaning from the muzzle end, he said no I DON'T EVEN OWN A CLEANING KIT. You got to be kidding me. He's had the rifle for at least 10 years. Now you know what I'm dealing with. Anyways. So I told him there is alot of praise on the bushnell elite series. Would the 3200 be good for this gun say in a 4-12 power, all he does is deer hunt with this gun. What's ya'lls thought on this. Give some opinions to work with. Thanks guys.

Originally posted by lewwetzel Either the 3200 has gone downhill or it was overrated in the first place. I have a 7-21X Elite and am not that impressed. Just had it and a 6-18 Buckmaster out on a gloomy evening for a side-by-side; the Nikon resolution and light-gathering were much better. Also, after using side focus for a while, AO seems like kind of a pain. If your buddy doesn't hunt much in wet weather and might not miss the Rainguard, the Bush. Legend is almost as good as the 3200 for several $ less, and lenses are still fully multi-coated.

other than the lens coatings they are the same scope pretty much.

The way our Aussie dollar is travelling at the moment compared to the U.S. Dollar (almost at parity) I thought, to hell with the 3200, i'm getting a 4200!!! I've got a 2.5-10x40 and a 4-16x40(SF) on order.