by straightshooter » 02 Aug 2018, 6:35 am
If you shoot only a few rounds a year then even a cheapy Chinese scope should hold up OK for many years provided you are lucky enough to get one that does not contain a serious constructional defect to start with.
If on the other hand you are liable to shoot thousands of rounds a year the quality of workmanship of rice paddy robots becomes apparent sooner than you may hope for.
Now don't misinterpret what I have said. Just about all scopes will eventually succumb to repeated heavy recoil. It's just that higher quality scopes will last far longer.
The failure points will invariably be anything that is designed to or can move within the scope or anything that hasn't been secured sufficiently.
So it then follows that a fixed power scope will be less liable to fail due to fewer internal elements but try and find a decent new fixed power scope these days.
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