New Bushnell AR Scope Review

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Hi Joe, Great review. The throw down lever, there's a british company that sells something similar. Rowan Engineering. They make a Zoom lever cnc machined aluminum .On the salty side for price: 42.95 pounds about $54.11 us. Also make one for the parallax focus knob. Its around 10 bucks cheaper. These are for Hawke scopes. They have them for some others. They ship worldwide. Joe, everyone have a great and safe new year. 
 
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Ed we have been using them on all our Springer's honestly..And so far we haven't had a single problem . But to be fair , we were using the older model without the lever ....Not that that would make a difference.
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Thanks for the feedback!

Decades ago I started with a 4-12x40 Bushnell Trophy of Japanese origin and it was "bullet proof" even sitting on the .177 Beeman R9 that was "too stiffly tuned" fitted with a heavy Maccari SteelGate spring that shot 10.5 grain CP heavies at 800fps (about 15fpe). That scope and R9 was sold to my uncle "way back when" and to my knowledge he's still squirrel hunting with the rig.

After selling the Trophy I bought and used a Bushy Elite 3200 which didn't focus sharply down to 10 yards and the Elite 3200 was replaced with a 4-16x40 Elite 4200 which I used for years on my stiffly sprung .177 R9s. After years (maybe 40,000 shots and several springs) of use something "shot loose" inside and it was sent into Bushnell for repair. I received a note from Bushnell that the Elite 4200 with AO was discontinued and couldn't be repaired so it was replaced with a new version with side focus. At first I was pleased till I mounted the scope and learned that at 12x it would focus sharply no closer than 18 yards and I've been trying to replace the functionality of those Bushnell scopes of years ago for airguns.

I really liked the Bushnell optics and light weight, however it seemed that Bushnell had abandoned the airgunner with scopes that wouldn't adequately "close focus".

Anywhoo.....the "Bushy AR series" seems to be useful (if it focuses sharply down to 10 yards at max mag) so I was wondering if they were as tough as the old "made in Japan" trophies.
 
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