I had a couple of decent Amazon gift cards, so I decided to take a chance and order one of the Discovery scopes from Apex Horizon which ships from China. I liked the features of the VT-2, and I like the reticle as well. Some folks have not had good luck ordering these, so I thought I'd take some pics while unboxing, so you can see how they ship these days. YMMV.
Here's how the box arrived. The package was in good condition, and the box seemed to be wrapped with nice padding.
Starting to open the package, I could see that the box was wrapped in 3 layers of bubble wrap. Pretty nice.
Here's the unwrapped box. Good condition.
Just a little dent on one corner of the box.
Open box, all packaged as expected. Nothing spectacular, but well enough to withstand shipping halfway around the world I guess.
Contents of the box. It came with scope rings (I bought some because I didn't know they'd be included!), a couple of allen wrenches, chamois cloth, cardboard square with scope specs, user manual, scope shade, and two scope covers already installed on the ends. The order page didn't really specify what all would be included, so I am very pleased that all of this is included.
I may be weird, but I like the blue caps on the scope covers.
All in all, I'm pretty pleased and impressed with my purchase. I looked through the scope and all seems fine. The eye relief seems a little long, but I'll adjust and get used to it. I didn't try the illumination yet, as a battery didn't seem to be included in the box. (That's fine, I have several extras.) The reticle is MUCH smaller than the thick wire reticle in my UTG scope, which will be very nice. Once I get the air rifle and get the scope mounted, I'll try to get a decent photo through the scope, to show the reticle.
Here's how the box arrived. The package was in good condition, and the box seemed to be wrapped with nice padding.
Starting to open the package, I could see that the box was wrapped in 3 layers of bubble wrap. Pretty nice.
Here's the unwrapped box. Good condition.
Just a little dent on one corner of the box.
Open box, all packaged as expected. Nothing spectacular, but well enough to withstand shipping halfway around the world I guess.
Contents of the box. It came with scope rings (I bought some because I didn't know they'd be included!), a couple of allen wrenches, chamois cloth, cardboard square with scope specs, user manual, scope shade, and two scope covers already installed on the ends. The order page didn't really specify what all would be included, so I am very pleased that all of this is included.
I may be weird, but I like the blue caps on the scope covers.
All in all, I'm pretty pleased and impressed with my purchase. I looked through the scope and all seems fine. The eye relief seems a little long, but I'll adjust and get used to it. I didn't try the illumination yet, as a battery didn't seem to be included in the box. (That's fine, I have several extras.) The reticle is MUCH smaller than the thick wire reticle in my UTG scope, which will be very nice. Once I get the air rifle and get the scope mounted, I'll try to get a decent photo through the scope, to show the reticle.
