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I am buying a Remington 700P LTR with 20" barrel as charles suggested.

Which rifle scope should I buy for this gun? I cannot afford any $1000 scope. I am thinking about something around $400.

any idea?

Also anybody can recommend any book to read about how to shoot a rifle accurately? OH, which benchrest should I get to sight in my gun?

I am not very good at shooting rifles, nor at handgun, nor at any gun in general, but want to learn.

The Super Sniper is in your price range, generally $300 or $400 depending on power and options.

Take a look at Sightron scopes. They have a reputation of providing the same level of quality as scopes that cost 2-3 times as much.

http://www.sightron.com/

Check out http://www.cheaperthandirt.com they have lots of scopes in many
price ranges.
Before I heard of them tho I bought a Tasco 3x9x40 for my m14 and it has worked out just fine.

I am am buying a Super Sniper myself. I have not used one but have heard great things from everyone who has.

I have a scope that is basically a Nikon from what everyone tells me, but was bought from a local guy. I am betting he has Nikon make them and sells them dirt cheap. Just as accurate and about 98% as clear as the Leupold that was on top of the rifle - for less than half the price. I paid a little under $300 out the door, and that was for a full-tilt tactical scope. I am sure his hunting scopes are cheaper.

http://www.visionnetweb.com is the website, he's up in here Garland.

Stupid wrote:Which rifle scope should I buy for this gun? I cannot afford any $1000 scope. I am thinking about something around $400.

$400 means a good scope, don't think you always need a $1k scope. You don't have to buy more scope than you need.

What do you want to do with the rifle?

Hunting or target shooting?

Target shooting demands much more scope. Depending on what you want, a lot of target shooting is best server w/ a fixed power scope. Hunting/plinking is better with a variable power scope.

The retical is important since changing that will mean at least $50. You pick the one best suited to want you want to do w/ the rifle.

Do you want to shoot in low light (maybe a lighted retical)? You don't usually need this for target shooting.

What distances are you going to shoot? Can the AO (if available) be adjusted to that distance?

Also, remember, don't be cheap on the rings. Depending on the rifle's use, do you want the scope to be close to the bore or mounted high for more comfortable offhand shooting.

How do you plan to shoot, supported? offhand? What's going to be your support? rest, sandbags, bipods, sling? What's your skill level? If you can't hold steady with whatever rest you pick with a 100x scope, what's the use of 100x? I.e. beginners may have trouble with even a 12x, so... why pay more for something you can't use?

Stupid wrote: Also anybody can recommend any book to read about how to shoot a rifle accurately? OH, which benchrest should I get to sight in my gun?

I am not very good at shooting rifles, nor at handgun, nor at any gun in general, but want to learn.

I'd use sandbags to start off. They are cheap and available everywhere.

The main thing (IMHO) regarding rifle shooting is building up your position correctly. Any book (or even this web) can be helpful, but a live instructor is really good to have here.

I like the Burris line, good scopes for the money. Their Fullfield II line has great price/performance value. Another line that's a good value is Bushnell Elite 4200; Bushnell goes on sale often, so they may be the better value when on sale.

Edit to add, Weaver T series scopes are very popular in target shooting. In fact, I'm shopping for one right now...

I'm very happy with my Super Sniper 16x on my LTR. I am however going to the 20x soon and will be putting the 16x on my new AR precision upper. You can't beat the price and quality.

http://www.swfa.com

-Rug

A lot of your $1000 and up glass is WAY overpriced for what it delivers in overall glass quality, construction and durability. IOR comes to mind...And Valdada isn't exactly famous for his customer service. I met him at the 2005 SHOT show, he just plain rubbed me wrong and I've shunned his products ever since. Having said that, I will admit to lusting after the Schmidt and Bender Police Marksman line of scopes. They are worth at least half of their retail price...Not sure if they are worth more than that but I reallly can't think of a better scope. Still, they are WAY out of my price range.

$400 is a reasonable amount of money if you are investing in a quality scope. Within that price range, I'm a big fan of Leupold's warranty service and the VX-II series scopes. The Burris Fullfield II line also falls into that price range and all of the recent production scopes I've seen have had excellent clarity and were at least as bright as the Leupolds. I know there are other scopes as others mentioned but, these are the two lines with which I'm familiar in that price range.

On a budget I'd recommend Burris.