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koshkin
MODERATOR Dark Lord of Optics Joined: June/15/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13182 |
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Posted: March/27/2008 at 12:32 |
I've been thinking about the economics of the riflescope business lately, and I am curious how much are people willing to spend on a scope.
Just about all of us here, own more than one scope. Looking back to what I paid for the scopes I currently have on hand (in today's dollars) I came up with the following table. Price range # of scopes I have $0-$200 6 $200-$400 8 $400-$600 3 $600-$800 1 $800-$1000 0 $1000-$1200 0 >$1200 1 Now, I buy and sell scopes all the time, so this is just the stuff that is currently in my possession. I typically I expect to to have one or two more high dollar scopes, but my scope choices are clearly biased toward the $200-$400 range, since considering the number of rifles that I have, I just can't afford to have very expensive scopes on all of them. Also, keep in mind that since I always have a couple of spare scopes around, I can afford to wait for good deals and/or buy from the samplelist, so many of my scopes were acquired with pretty good discount. ILya |
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Roy Finn
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I have not really found any benefit for hunting to spend more than $600 for a scope these days. Twenty years ago, was a different story. Today's scope's have excellent glass in this price range.
Roy
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Dogger
Optics Jedi Master Joined: January/02/2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Status: Offline Points: 8906 |
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My comfort range is 200-400
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300S&W
Optics God Joined: January/27/2008 Location: Burlington,WV Status: Offline Points: 10592 |
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+1,Dogger.
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Jsimoneaud
Optics Apprentice Joined: January/08/2007 Location: South Louisiana Status: Offline Points: 168 |
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I feel comfortable in the 200.00 to 300.00 range, but I do have 2 that ran me 350.00 each, I don't like spending more than 400.00 but I do want a conquest in the future.
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J Simoneaud
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barefoot
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0-$200 several, but don't use too much anymore $200-$400 8 (Leupold, Nikon, Weaver) $400-$600 3 (Leupold) $600-$800 2 Kahles Cl, Leupold I don't mind spending up to or a little over $600.00, but that's about my limit.
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bricat
Optics Master Joined: April/24/2007 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 1881 |
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$400-$800 or as I like to call it, Zeiss to Kahles.
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tahqua
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0-$200 5 mostly older fixed power
$200-$400 6 $400-$600 4 $600-$800 1 |
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lucytuma
Optics Jedi Knight Joined: November/25/2007 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 5389 |
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I feel that $800.00 is about my max, most of my scopes would fall into the $250 - $500 range. |
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RifleDude
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I'm all over the map on this one, and I probably have a pretty evenly distributed amount of scopes in all categories. For the average rifle, I'm willing to spend in the neighborhood of $400 - $700 for the scope. For a really special rifle, I will sometimes spend more, but most of my expensive scopes were bought at a pretty significant discount off the Sample List.
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Ted
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HuntMaster
Optics Master Joined: March/19/2007 Location: St Stephens,Al. Status: Offline Points: 1053 |
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Used to only buy $30 -$130 range ( 20 years ago). Now a rather broad spectrum of $350 - $900.
Derek
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martin3175
Optics Master Extraordinaire Joined: January/19/2005 Location: Maryland Status: Offline Points: 3773 |
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Price range # of scopes I have
$0-$200 11 $200-$400 24 $400-$600 3 $600-$800 0 $800-$1000 1
So far I have a mixture of several 4200 Elites's, Monarch's, Pentax Whitetail Unlimited's, handful of recent Bushnell "Brownings", 3200 Elites, trio of Leupold 2.5-8's, 2 Weaver Grand Slams, Sightron SII , Weaver T-series, a Redfield Illuminator, old Simmons 44mag-22mag+ 1.5-5 Whitetail Classic, and a Swarovski American 3-10 .The quality of the mid priced units available today is exceptional in the $200-$500 range. Edited by martin3175 - March/28/2008 at 09:33 |
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PappaBear
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I have not been able to justify buying anything over the Conquest line.
But this forum is selling me on Elite 4200's.
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medic52
Optics Professional Joined: October/05/2006 Location: Missouri Status: Offline Points: 893 |
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0-200 =4
200-400=6 includes two pair Binoculars
400-600=2
600-800=2
I like owning different scopes......Bushnell, Nikon, Leupold,Zeiss,Burris, Mueller, Trijicon...I am already thinking toward my next setup. I think my max amount would be around 800.00 and I am leaning toward a Kahles next time.........
Edited by medic52 - March/28/2008 at 09:17 |
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Tip69
Optics Master Extraordinaire Tip Stick Joined: September/27/2005 Location: Nebraska Status: Offline Points: 4155 |
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Price range # of scopes I have
$0-$200 7 $200-$400 5 $400-$600 0 $600-$800 1 $800-$1000 0
Of the cheapies, most are rimfire with the exception of a Vortex 4-12X40 and a Redfield 4-12X40AO I got off ebay from SWFA. The lone $600-800 is a Kahles CL from Samplelist. I will be adding a Conquest 3-9X40 before long... will have to see which range it falls into, hopefully the $200-400!
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take em!
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supertool73
Optics God Superstool Joined: January/03/2008 Status: Offline Points: 11814 |
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Price range # of scopes I have
$0-$200 2 $200-$400 5 $400-$600 0 $600-$800 0 $800-$1000 0
$1000-$1400 2 |
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mwyates
Optics Master Joined: June/15/2004 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 1196 |
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$400 is usually well spent. I just sold my only "expensive" scope, a Kahles CL (I'll start a new post soon with the reasons why). I wouldn't spend over $400-500 unless it was for a "specialty" scope and I haven't had a need for anything like that.
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lennyzrx
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I'd say 70% in the 200-400 dollar range. If I were going on a paid hunt I'd spend some $$$. A failed scope on a varmint hunt 40 miles from home is no big deal. A failed scope on a once in a lifetime hunt is not good.
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Dale Clifford
Optics Jedi Knight Joined: July/04/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5087 |
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from $100 to $4000
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Dogger
Optics Jedi Master Joined: January/02/2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Status: Offline Points: 8906 |
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Jeez Dale, can't say you don't leave your options open!
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