G-town Hunter
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Redfield Revolution or a Bushnell Legend Ultra HD both around $250-$300
I would suggest a scope costing a little less than or slightly more than your rifle
Does anyone else here see the irony in a guy going by the name of "Cheapshooter" telling a newbie he needs to drop 300 bucks on glass?
I'm looking for a new deer rifle I want a rifle I can sight in at 100yards and never have to worry about missing ever again. 400yards is a max I'd ever try to shoot but I prob wouldn't take that shot it be around 300 I got a ruger 308 in layaway at Walmart but I want the most accurate rifle I can get what do y'all think I should get?
And just where in the OP did he mention he couldn't afford better optics, or ammo to practice with?
Because he had a Ruger in layaway at Walmart? a bit judgmental I would say.
That money would be better spent on gun fodder and range time, IMO.
OP: what you NEED is skill, and that comes with trigger time. Everthing else is just a means to that end.
Any scope that will hold zero (not broken) will likely be good enough, and a new shooter could not do noticably better with a scope costing 10X as much. Save the money and use it for practice ammo, or better yet, get set up to roll your own (and make 2-3X as much ammo for the same $$$.
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That is the part of the system most subject to improvement by spending money ...... but also requires time and effort.
Proficiency can be bought, just not with dollars alone.
Because the greatest variable in the equation is not the gun, nor the scope, but the shooter, I think you should get a handloading set-up and as much components as you can afford to buy.
You have an adequate rifle. Scrimp on the scope (the glass on my deer rifle can be had on E-bay for less than 50 bucks!), splurge a bit on a good leather shooting sling and spend every penny you can on maximizing trigger time.
At the point you can shoot your rifle from field positions, under time pressure, as well as you can from a bench, then and only then, think about upgrading the scope or stock or trigger or whatever.