Canadian Airgun Forum

I have read on other forums that not all older Bushnell scopes had the lifetime warranty. Do you have the warranty card stating that it has a lifetime warranty?

Do you have the original bill of sale - you did not say ? Warranties are for the original purchaser IIRC.

If the scope is bent then the integrity of the tube, and therefore the adjustment mechanism, has been compromised through abuse and probably not by way a defect.

Parts are no longer available and the scope was clearly abused. They offered a replacement at a pretty good discount.

In all honesty, I think you were treated more than fairly.

I dont have the warranty card with me , but the "abuse" term is subjective , every scope suffers abuse on an airgun , I had no problems with this scope , if fact if they hadnt told me it was bent I wouldnt have known the difference . And the adjustment of the turret has no relationship to the scope being bent , because I had checked it , and all I really asked for was the for the "notchy feel" of the scope to be there ,which it wasnt , this notchy feel is present in the windage adjustment and not the elevation one . So I must stress to everyone , that the bending of the scope has no direct correlation to the adjustment issue . So in my mind its like this , you get a bike , but they can't fix the gears because they dont have parts for those gears anymore, but all of a sudden they say the handle bars are bent ,and now I have to shell out 95% of the cost of a new bike ? . They offered the scope to me for $90 plus taxes , I can buy that same scope for around $117 new , and u know they are not giving me a new scope for $90 , it will be a refurbished one .

When my HW80 ripped the reticle out of my banner 6-24 I drove it to their office and they gave me a replacement on the spot. They had no new ones in stock so they gave me the choice of a refurb with full warranty, or waiting for a shipment to arrive. After looking at the refurb that was in perfect condition, I chose to take that one. Based on this experience I recently purchased the 3-9 sportsman for my HW30.

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I was talking to a Bushnell rep on the phone a while ago, asking about what lines are airgun rated or not. Some of the lower lines do have certain scopes that are ok on airguns, and they say on the web site. What I was told, is that all scopes in the Trophy line and up, are airgun rated. That includes the Trophy, Legend, and both Elite lines. I would think that they are talking about medium to heavy recoiling rifles, and not light or non-recoilling rifles. The latter can use anything. Be careful what you put on your HW 50's and up as it might not be enough scope for the rifle.

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