Well, anyway ... my deer rifle/scope is a Rem 788 in .243 with an old 4x Bushnell on it. Got the whole thing at a pawnshop for $225, which is less than you might pay for a good scope.
I'm also one of those "one box of shells = 20 deer" sort of guys
My scoped rifle... the one with the Bushnell 3-9x32... is a Savage M340 (crankbolt) in .30-30Win. Right now, there's 10rds riding in a carrier on the stock. Those rounds are Hornady's #3031 150grSP over 30.6grs of IMR4064 to run 2000fps. On paper, this round fired from this rifle and aimed with this scope... it'll do 1" at 25 and 50 yards and I'm bustin' fist-sized rocks at 100yds. I really ought to test it on paper at 100yds and further if I can get more distance.
I got to playing with a balistic calculater a while back and ran the trajectory out to 200yds... if I put the crosshairs on the upper-lungs, just low of the spine, it'll be upper-lungs/spinal to 175yds and it'll probably drop into lower lungs/heart at 200yds. Any further... forget it; slows down and drops too much.
