A lot of optic for the price ...

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Just a heads up.

I bought a rifle from one of the guys on the forum about three days ago. He was Johnny-On_the_Spot shipping it and he threw in one of these. I shot it for a couple of hours this afternoon and pulled the optic to put on my Stormrider. I put a 10x50 mil/mil UTG on the new rifle. I was so impressed with the optic at the current price on Midway that I bought another to put back on the rifle. If all of them are like the one he shipped me it's a lot of optic for the price ...

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https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1023354665?pid=870792
 
I know this scope from first hand experience.

I'm not going down the subjective road of optics quality. turret performance, etc.

What I will say is that this scope is not springer friendly!!
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That is what I thought this afternoon. Groups were real tight but they kept moving around the target. Finally figured out the problem was parallax error. How? Put a known good optic on the rifle and still had the problem.

Your mileage may vary and mine might also but I have broken a lot of scopes on springers over the years. 

Thanks for the feedback.
 
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Just got one of these Centra scopes for my wife's gun, seems decent for the money. The dots on the mil marks are thicker than I'd like, glass is dimmer than I expected, and the turrets don't feel all that great. But it's a FFP for $100 which is awesome!
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You basically nailed my first impression of the scope too but at $100 ... for a 4x14x44 FFP ... if you are not going to dial your range in yep. I do like the thicker mil marks because my eyes are a bit fuzzy in my old age. My SWFA fixed power scopes have such fine reticles that I have a very hard time seeing them in low light. Agree with you on the turrets they are spungy but once they are set everything seems to stay where you left it.

Thanks for the feedback.
 
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A 14power FFP for only $100. The 28.8oz thing kinda kills it for me. That's more then (2) 3-12 bug busters on there.
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True enough but that is a 3x9x32 that weighs 13 oz. A more fair comparison would be the 3x12x44 SWAT UTG at 26oz. Agreed on the weight though. It's really hard to find a scope which is really sweet AND light.

I think I'm going to like this one. That is not to suggest that you don't get your money's worth on a Bug Buster. They are great little scopes, especially to hang on spring rifle for hunting. I gave one to my grandsons with their Stormrider. It made for a really sweet package.
 
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