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Advice on hunting scopes with quality turrets
High Climber:
Are any of these scopes noticeably better or worse at staying fog free in wet conditions?
Sakko300wsm:
I have never had any of my Nightforce scopes fog up. Never owned a Leica scope , but have never had my Leica bino / range finder fog up either
b23:
--- Quote from: zwickeyman on April 20, 2024, 03:04:02 PM ---Its the 5.5-22X50 MOAR
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Bang for your buck that particular scope is about as good as it gets. If you're coming from a more basic reticle like a duplex or similar the reticle in that NF may seem a little busy at first but it won't take long and you won't really even notice it but if you spend a little time to learn it and how it applies to the rifle you have it on you'll come to love.
If every rifle I owned had that scope on it, well, there'd be worse things to complain about that's for sure.
pickardjw:
In the latest S2H podcast, Form ran through all of the scopes that have passed or partially passed (partially failed you could say) the drop eval. Any of their podcasts with Form on them are 100% worth the listen. I also liked the one with the Hornady guys.
https://shoot2hunt.com/
https://rokslide.com/forums/forums/rifle-scope-field-evaluations.133/
A quality scope that is likely to maintain zero is no use if it moves around in the rings, so I also follow his scope mounting procedure. Though I believe he's seen issues with 18 in/lbs in several of the drop evals and torque values above the manufacturer recommended often fix the issue. Think he goes at least 22 in/lbs, if not 25+.
https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/scope-mounting-to-maintain-zero.78482/
Lots of guys on Rokslide running the SWFA's for hunting. Biggest problem with SWFA right now is they are out of stock on many items and not allowing backorders, indicating they may be updating some designs. But they have been pretty secretive so no idea what's really going on there.
I'm looking at going with the Maven RS1.2 MIL to replace my Zeiss v4. Though he did tease a scope or scopes "in the works" at the end of the latest podcast...
zwickeyman:
--- Quote from: pickardjw on April 21, 2024, 04:39:11 PM ---In the latest S2H podcast, Form ran through all of the scopes that have passed or partially passed (partially failed you could say) the drop eval. Any of their podcasts with Form on them are 100% worth the listen. I also liked the one with the Hornady guys.
https://shoot2hunt.com/
https://rokslide.com/forums/forums/rifle-scope-field-evaluations.133/
A quality scope that is likely to maintain zero is no use if it moves around in the rings, so I also follow his scope mounting procedure. Though I believe he's seen issues with 18 in/lbs in several of the drop evals and torque values above the manufacturer recommended often fix the issue. Think he goes at least 22 in/lbs, if not 25+.
https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/scope-mounting-to-maintain-zero.78482/
Lots of guys on Rokslide running the SWFA's for hunting. Biggest problem with SWFA right now is they are out of stock on many items and not allowing backorders, indicating they may be updating some designs. But they have been pretty secretive so no idea what's really going on there.
I'm looking at going with the Maven RS1.2 MIL to replace my Zeiss v4. Though he did tease a scope or scopes "in the works" at the end of the latest podcast...
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Great info
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