Cheap scope and Barrett 50 BMG

[Notmyjk]

Bought a Barrett M82A1 50 BMG. In negotiations with my wife to get the gun, I agreed to wait until I paid back our savings for the gun until I bought a decent scope. This will take Im guessing until September (I'm paying it back with OT at work and side jobs in my shop building 4x4s for people).In the meantime, I picked up a cheap scope from Amazon. Monstruem 8-32x56. Will the recoil from this gun be too much for the cheap scope? Seems like to me it is not holding zero.

 

[BigMoose]

Yeah I don't know about that scope lasting on the barret.. it seems to me there was a set of Irons that Barret made for the M82 that might be a better idea in the short term.. well especially at most ranges your going to be shooting at in Indiana.

 

[russc2542]

Lets start a pool on how many shots before it's involuntarily reorganized. I say 1st shot.

I've reorganized better scopes (ACME 6-24) with less (7mm mag, 2nd shot)

 

[Notmyjk]

Lets start a pool on how many shots before it's involuntarily reorganized. I say 1st shot.

I've reorganized better scopes (ACME 6-24) with less (7mm mag, 2nd shot)

Seems like it started not holding zero at shot 9 or 10. Lol

 

[Brian's Surplus]

Bought a Barrett M82A1 50 BMG. In negotiations with my wife to get the gun, I agreed to wait until I paid back our savings for the gun until I bought a decent scope. This will take Im guessing until September (I'm paying it back with OT at work and side jobs in my shop building 4x4s for people).In the meantime, I picked up a cheap scope from Amazon. Monstruem 8-32x56. Will the recoil from this gun be too much for the cheap scope? Seems like to me it is not holding zero.

I hope that there is a backstop somewhere that we can't see in the picture...

 

[Cameramonkey]

I hope that there is a backstop somewhere that we can't see in the picture...

ESPECIALLY if he is scrambling scope innards.

Its one thing to have a tiny backstop and an accurate rifle. But when your accuracy is compromised due to a failed sighting device. Yikes!

 

[Notmyjk]

ESPECIALLY if he is scrambling scope innards.

Its one thing to have a tiny backstop and an accurate rifle. But when your accuracy is compromised due to a failed sighting device. Yikes!

Yes, there is a substantial one.

 

[stocknup]

Yes, there is a substantial one.

Would you mind sharing a photo of it ....Curious what it takes to stop a 50 BMG .

 

[Notmyjk]

Would you mind sharing a photo of it ....Curious what it takes to stop a 50 BMG .

No pictures as of yet but it is 56 tons of dirt shaped with my loader.

 

[vtnewbie]

Not a .50, but it was a hard kicker in its own right. I've got a Winchester Model 70 in .375H&H, which has kicked the crosshairs out of 3 scopes, Simmons, Bushnell, and a Nikon! It has subsequently worn an ancient steel-tube Weaver 3-9x40 for the last 18 years (and a couple boxes of ammunition). It doesn't look tactical, but that scope is built like a tank, if you can find one.

 

[russc2542]

Not a .50, but it was a hard kicker in its own right. I've got a Winchester Model 70 in .375H&H, which has kicked the crosshairs out of 3 scopes, Simmons, Bushnell, and a Nikon! It has subsequently worn an ancient steel-tube Weaver 3-9x40 for the last 18 years (and a couple boxes of ammunition). It doesn't look tactical, but that scope is built like a tank, if you can find one.

Not a matter of who makes it but what it's built for. You can have the best brand name rimfire scope in the world but it'll get rearranged by a 375H&H. cheap noname actually built for it will work fine. I have a 375H&H too, in a CZ550, it wears a Leupold VX-5.

 

[Creedmoor]

I hope that there is a backstop somewhere that we can't see in the picture...

After a few skips across a the fields, your new metal roof will stop them.

 

[Creedmoor]

Would you mind sharing a photo of it ....Curious what it takes to stop a 50 BMG .

In dry dirt/sand, not as much as one would think. Ive shot a bunch of ball at 200 and under, after a rain the cores will be laying on the surface. Lots of surface area for friction to slow them down quick.
Mud id a different story.

 

[sheepdog697]

Is this a joke?

 

[PSOD]

Bought a Barrett M82A1 50 BMG. In negotiations with my wife to get the gun, I agreed to wait until I paid back our savings for the gun until I bought a decent scope. This will take Im guessing until September (I'm paying it back with OT at work and side jobs in my shop building 4x4s for people).In the meantime, I picked up a cheap scope from Amazon. Monstruem 8-32x56. Will the recoil from this gun be too much for the cheap scope? Seems like to me it is not holding zero.

yeah, no chance that scope holds up to the recoil of that monster. maybe consider something for like a large pistol.. that could probably handle the recoil and would be a good short term solution.

 

[Dholcomb]

I would wait to shoot it until you can get a decent scope. Feeding that thing is not going to be cheap. Personally wouldn’t waste money sending them down range if I didn’t know where they were going. Continually trying to re-zero/trouble shoot optics will also get frustrating quick.