The Problem with Hawke Scopes....

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JungleShooter

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Clickbait taken.

Nope, actually no clickbait, just an opinion after sifting through the specs of Hawke's scope selection.

They've updated and come out with a bunch of new scopes since this virus played havoc.



One of our resident scope experts, Yo/Odoyle highly praised the glass of the new Frontier line. Nice.



But I have a problem with Hawke's FFP scopes. They've added a lot of FFP's in the last few years, is seems.

But not one takes into account that the reticle gets really small when on lower magnifications —

in which case thick black outside posts in the reticle would really help to guide the eye toward were the faintly visible crosshairs intersect. (This is usually not an issue with SFP scopes.)



However, NONE of the Hawke scopes has them — not one with thick outside posts in their reticles.

I mean, sure, give shooters some options and make some with and some without black outside posts. But none....?



Matthias
 
Jason, good article you linked there, thanks. 👍🏼

I would add: If you mainly use holdovers, an SFP requires you to memorize (or carry around) several dope cards — one for each magnification you plan to use... And one for the turrets, in case you also want to dial....





One thing that the article above mentioned I could not confirm, at least not for the scopes that I am interested in (10y min. parallax, holdoff reticle, uncapped).

The article said: "With an SFP reticle, the spacing for holdover in the reticle is only correct at one magnification, usually the highest setting."

I only find about a quarter of the SFP scopes are calibrated at their highest magnification.... I wish it was otherwise.... Scopes specifically designed for airguns — Aztec and Element — seem to be doing it at max. The Hawke Airmax doesn't.

Matthias


 
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My criticism of the Hawke scope I bought is of a different nature. This is the scope I bought:

https://utahairguns.com/hawke-sidewinder-ffp-gen-2/

I bought it because I thought the reticle was fine enough for target shooting, but still somewhat able to be seen. Please let me know what I am missing. Why would a scope approaching $800 not have a zero stop? The $400ish Element Helix's do. Why would I want a little witness window that I need to look through to see what revolution of the up/down turret I am on instead of going down to stop by feel, then back up to zero, reading the nice large turret dial? When I re-zero the top turret, how do I re-zero the revolution counter in the little window? Scope is new in the box, I bought it 6/9/21 and never looked at it. If I could return it at minimal cost I would.
 
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Carl,

so you mean there is no way to set the turret revolution counter to zero? That would be really unhelpful — together with a turret requiring mental arithmetic becuse it does not turn a full 10 mil per revolution....



To be sure: I have nothing against the Hawke brand, OK?! But I just went through the specs of all of their scopes, since they brought out so many new scopes — but some of these issues continue on into the new production....

Hawke, are you listening? 👍🏼

Matthias
 
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