If I need a wrench for a job I need to do once, I will shop at Harbor Freight. If I need a tool where the consequence of poor quality is significant I will buy a good one.
If I know a rifle will be used only to fling cheap bullets at rocks across the hill, who cares if the scope breaks...but if scope failure might cost me a trophy buck or a freezer full of meat, the extra $100 spent on a decent scope is an investment.
In the moment when old mossy horns steps out into the clear and you discover your scope is fogged, you won't congratulate yourself for having saved a few pennies.
I have a box in the garage with 6 or 7 scopes that have failed somehow over the last 30 years. They are Tasco, Bushnell, Simmons, BSA and the like.
If I know a rifle will be used only to fling cheap bullets at rocks across the hill, who cares if the scope breaks...but if scope failure might cost me a trophy buck or a freezer full of meat, the extra $100 spent on a decent scope is an investment.
In the moment when old mossy horns steps out into the clear and you discover your scope is fogged, you won't congratulate yourself for having saved a few pennies.
I have a box in the garage with 6 or 7 scopes that have failed somehow over the last 30 years. They are Tasco, Bushnell, Simmons, BSA and the like.