Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby Texas Sheepdawg » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:03 am

Guess I will have to wait. I am not at my PC right now. But I sync my
iPhone several times a week. Here at work our PCs are dedicated
To monitoring our plant and other SCADA instruments. They don't
Connect to the outside world for security reasons.
I was going to show some pics of my rifle with the ATN MK350
Mounted on it. It looks strange.
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby artalon » Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:19 pm

Its a little awkward at first but the osprey international holds up to a bashing from the bmg, over 300 rnds and no problems yet, I had a bsa contender on it its higher power went away after some heavy loads, and i mean heavy
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby 2zero6 » Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:41 pm

artalon wrote:Its a little awkward at first but the osprey international holds up to a bashing from the bmg, over 300 rnds and no problems yet, I had a bsa contender on it its higher power went away after some heavy loads, and i mean heavy

+ 1 on the Osprey. They make some pretty durable optics. :D
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby Texas Sheepdawg » Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:07 pm

2zero6 wrote:
artalon wrote:Its a little awkward at first but the osprey international holds up to a bashing from the bmg, over 300 rnds and no problems yet, I had a bsa contender on it its higher power went away after some heavy loads, and i mean heavy

+ 1 on the Osprey. They make some pretty durable optics. :D

I have earmarked some Ospreys in the past and was meaning to ask about them. I think I saw them at Midway.
As for rings and hardware. I am looking at Bushmasters catalog and Cheaper than Dirt catalog... I have too
many options and have about been overwhelmed. I want to KEEP IT SIMPLE, TACTICAL, DURABLE and AFFORDABLE.
I will be swapping out between daytime and nighttime optics occasionally. (at least twice a week). Coyotes have bad hours too.
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby Texas Sheepdawg » Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:36 pm

What the heck is wrong with Tiny pic? Tried to sign up and it still wont let me in. Tried to upload some pics but they are around 190-200Kb and site wont allow them that big. Danit, My iphone takes better pictures than that.
Maybe I got it working now, lets see. Is this working?
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby Texas Sheepdawg » Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:47 pm

And is this any better?
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....YES!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby 2zero6 » Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:18 pm

Man oh man that sure looks like fun! :mrgreen: Been meaning to invest in a nice gen 3. The gen 1 I have only lets me see maybe 20 yards out clearly. As far as the Osprey's go, I have one of their multi-reticle green/red dot reflex sights on my shotgun that I used on my Archangel 10/22 that was awesome and really took a beating in the woods. I also have their 10-40x50 on my LR-308 AP4 and that thing is freakin' sweet. Here is a link . Lifetime warranty and rated to 50BMG .
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby Texas Sheepdawg » Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:48 am

My scope is a ATN MK350 (Gen1), and does FANTASTIC out to about
150 yards with the IR illuminator which comes with the scope.
I have used it out here at the plant, (without a gun) and been able
To see very well past 150 on a strong good moonlit night without
The IR illuminator. I highly recommend ATN GEN one scopes.
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby Texas Sheepdawg » Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:08 am

Has anyone had any experiences using UTG (Leapers) scopes?
Pros?
Cons?
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Re: Optics considerations for the 450 Bushmaster?

Postby artalon » Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:13 am

I wonder about them as well, they have a lot of paint ball stuff, ie: is there a diff in there line between firearm quality and paint ball?
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