1. You can grab a sweet Nikon or Leupold scope for that price. Go with Leupold if you want American. Incredible scopes in the $1400 range.
I will never again buy anything associated with Bushnell. I had a nice pair of their no focus 10x binoculars (nice, compact, light weight, mossy oak pattern). Cost around a hundred bucks at Gander Mountain. I used them through a tour in Iraq, they worked great, but eventually the objective lens popped loose. No biggie, right? Just send them back to Bushnell, explain what happened, and they'll fix em, right?
Sure! Except they emailed me and told me that the design of the binos was one they couldn't fix (huh?), but they'd send me a replacement pair. Sweet! A month later (pretty quick for mailing to Iraq) I got a box from Bushnell in the mail, and eagerly opened them up since I'd been lugging heavy army binos around with me. There was a pair of binoculars in the box, but they weren't my sleek lightweight, pre-cammoed no-focus 10x hunting binos. They were a cheap $45 pair of one of their "associated brand" 6x crap black plastic Boy Scouts-esque birdwatching binos. I e-mailed Bushnell saying there had to be a mixup, and the customer service people emailed me back saying that sometimes they had to choose a replacement item.... so replacement means they send me a bottom rung piece of crap that I went out of my way to not buy in the first place. Excellent customer service Bushnell!
Epic fail. Go with a company that makes quality and stands by it.
