I used to have a Bushnell 5-15 3200 Elite on my Savage 12FV in .223.
While on a prairie dog shoot, I dropped it and bent the tube. This was In Lemon, SD and there are not too many places to shop, so I went to a gunsmith’s house where he ran his business out of the basement and bought what I thought was a temporary replacement, a BSA 6-24x50, used for $75.00
He mounted it and bore-sighted it for me and we took it to a range in town to zero, and it was good to go.
Went out the next day and made dozens of kills at around 300 yards, a couple dozen kills at 550 yards, one at 680 and another at 685 yards.
The Savage still wears the BSA.