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[tesoronut]

One of my favorite scopes of all times was the older Japan-made Tasco World Class scopes. They're hard to find now, but a friend of mine gave me a fairly new Tasco 3x9x50 World Class scope the other day. I know that the quality isn't there anymore, but it fit perfectly in the Redfield rings on my 700 BDL .270. The optics are crystal-clear. Anyway, I've never had a 50mm scope before. Do they collect light alot better than the 40? Thanks for any replies.

[remington]

Tasco has been bought and sold so many times over and brought in so many sub-contracted junk for years. Buy cheap, buy twice. All scopes can fail (yes even high quality). Cheap scope are MORE likely to fail than the higher quality ones.

[JCalhoun]

tes;

All things being equal, the 50mm objective does collect more light than a 40mm. The real world performance is usually somewhat different. Most of cheaper 50mm scopes will transmit only a little bit more light than the quality 40mm scopes. It's the image that comes through the ocular (eyepiece) that matters.

[tesoronut]

JCalhoun wrote: tes;

All things being equal, the 50mm objective does collect more light than a 40mm. The real world performance is usually somewhat different. Most of cheaper 50mm scopes will transmit only a little bit more light than the quality 40mm scopes. It's the image that comes through the ocular (eyepiece) that matters. Yes indeed.......

[ChesterGolf]

I think bushnell is the owner of the tasco line now. Their old tasco titan line was a real tough scope as well. I have since switched to leupold and have no reason to change.