Anyone experience with a Nikko Stirling Diamond Hornet ED 10-50x60 HMD-T
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I bought my Hornet a couple months ago from Dvor. Given all the similarities with Sightron, I felt the price was too good to pass up. I also have a newer Sightron SIII I use for Hunter FT, so my expectation was to only use the Nikko at 16X.
There’s a lot to like about the Hornet (for HFT). It comes with metal flip up caps, fully illuminated reticle, and a 4” side wheel. Overall built quality is very nice and the view at 16X is comparable to my Sightron. It does have a 16X magnification setting even though the product photos don’t show it. However, when the magnification is increased to 50X the image quality goes down. Not terrible but there’s a blue hue that is visible that says this isn’t $3k glass. Another con is the turrets do not lock and could accidentally be moved during a match. Not a deal breaker but locking would be better.
As far as ranging, out to 40 yards, targets pop into focus and there’s good separation between the distances. 45-55 yards, the focus also pops in very well BUT there’s not much separation between these distances on the included 4” wheel. In the last week I’ve been able to adapt a larger wheel (8” effective diameter) on the scope to improve the separation on the longer distances. Haven’t used it in a match yet, but it will be on one of my FT guns next year.
My opinion, the Hornet is definitely a good lower cost option for HFT use.
There’s a lot to like about the Hornet (for HFT). It comes with metal flip up caps, fully illuminated reticle, and a 4” side wheel. Overall built quality is very nice and the view at 16X is comparable to my Sightron. It does have a 16X magnification setting even though the product photos don’t show it. However, when the magnification is increased to 50X the image quality goes down. Not terrible but there’s a blue hue that is visible that says this isn’t $3k glass. Another con is the turrets do not lock and could accidentally be moved during a match. Not a deal breaker but locking would be better.
As far as ranging, out to 40 yards, targets pop into focus and there’s good separation between the distances. 45-55 yards, the focus also pops in very well BUT there’s not much separation between these distances on the included 4” wheel. In the last week I’ve been able to adapt a larger wheel (8” effective diameter) on the scope to improve the separation on the longer distances. Haven’t used it in a match yet, but it will be on one of my FT guns next year.
My opinion, the Hornet is definitely a good lower cost option for HFT use.
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I recently bought the Hornet ED 10-50x60
I have not received it yet, because it comes from Germany, I paid 700 Euros, which was a decent deal, still waiting to see if it will stack up the the Diamond 10-50.
Not sure why Nikko Stirling discontinued that scope, because it was an excellent scope for FT.
I have not received it yet, because it comes from Germany, I paid 700 Euros, which was a decent deal, still waiting to see if it will stack up the the Diamond 10-50.
Not sure why Nikko Stirling discontinued that scope, because it was an excellent scope for FT.
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