I cant decide on ffp or second and all I ever owned is second but I feel I'm missing something. I was going to buy athlon midas in second but now I'm thinking argos in first....driving me nuts trying to decide . My shooting is just target shooting off the deck from 25 yards to 95 yards with possible pest removal at times but not much hunting because that's my condor ss job which I dont touch that much.
Need help guys...
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I just got my first FFP scope this week and I kinda like it. I was debating whether to go with the Athlon but I decided to go with the Vortex Diamondback in 6-24x50 and I was really a little amazed. The clarity of the glass is as good or better than my Hawke 8-32x56 in the lower magnifications. The Hawke tends to lose some of the clarity when you crank it up to 32 power ... but this Diamondback loses VERY LITTLE clarity all the way up to 24 power. The clicks are audible, crisp and well defined. The only thing about the turrets that I don't like is that they don't have a lockdown feature but the clicks are not sloppy at all and I would imagine you would really have to try to get them to move from where they are set-up at. It came through with flying colors on the box test and the crazy nipple twister test. There are plenty of aiming points with a Christmas tree reticle and the more you apply magnification, the clearer the reticle becomes … it don't get all fuzzy which I have seen at higher magnifications. All in all, I'd have to give it 5 stars for the money. The scope sells for $400 at Optics Planet but if you ask for their best price you can get it for $357.00, even if you have never bought anything from Optics Planet before. I think you would like it.
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Ffp is really cool if you're a hunter. If you mostly shoot off the bench, I would recommend a SFP. If you hunt, Ffp is great because you have the same holdover/holdunder values no matter what modification. The only drawback to Ffp is your reticle becomes really small at lower magnifications and the reticle becomes thick at higher magnifications.
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I agree with wyshadow. For target work, why would one want the reticle to get bigger and thicker at higher magnifications? Not me, that's for sure. For target work I want a thin reticle; and I want to magnify the target, NOT the reticle. You need a SFP scope for target work, NOT FFP.
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The funny thing is when I do hunt I try to lower the mag power to about 4-6 so I'm thinking with that in mind I might be better off just getting sfp but then I second guess the decision like a little kid.
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iv always had sfp glass now I tried the ffp and love it very nice when changing power and no shift
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I can think of two advantages to Sfp. The first one is what BeemanR7 said. A Sfp reticle will stay thin at every magnification range. The second advantage to a Sfp could either good or bad. If we choose a mildot 4-12 power scope and zero your gun at 10x and create a drop table, you can get twice your holdover values if you change your magnification to 5x. Doubling your distance you can shoot out to. You could go even further if you jumped from 12x to 4x by tripling your holdover values. The bad part to this is you obviously have to remember two pellet drops if you half/third your magnification
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