Hey guys,
Got to try out my new scope today and thought I'd post.
I'm not sure how much quality I should expect from a $200 scope but I think they could have done better.
1st, the clarity and brightness are good. I have no complaints there. Even up to 16 power it's pretty good.
Eye relief is very user friendly at lower magnification, meaning you can move a good bit for and aft and maintain a good site picture. It gets more finicky at higher settings, but I would expect that. Really user friendly.
The zero re-set on the turrets is something I had to fiddle with to make it work. The screws on the tops have to be loosened up all the way and then you have to lift up the turret adjuster. It takes some fiddling to get them to go far enough up so that they can be re-set. But it does work.
I like the cross hairs. They are thinner than my old Bushnell Banner, but not too thin. In broad daylight I can't see the lighted cross hair feature. In the evening when the light got a bit lower, it showed up nice. It's a nice feature.
The adjustable parallax is really nice. It turns easy enough that I don't really need the big wheel that comes with it. The range numbers on it are a bit too small for these old eyes but I can live with it. Maybe I'll end up putting something on it that I can see better. The numbers appear to be pretty close to accurate. I have measured landmarks in my yard at 30-50 and 70 yards and the scope matched it fairly close.
The only real gripes I have are about the level.
1. I can't see the bubble when I'm aiming. It's so far down it's out of my site picture.
2. The bubble isn't level. OR, should I say, when I tilt so that the bubble is in the center, the cross hairs are not level.
I tried to take pictures of it with my phone camera and here's one. The gun is on a rest and I have the bubble in the center.
I put a carpenters level about 15 yards away to check it with .
Other than the level, I like the scope.
Edit, I emailed PA about the level. Hopefully they will take it back and exchange it.
I've seen a couple of pictures on the net and they didn't look like mine. In those, you can easily see the level.
Got to try out my new scope today and thought I'd post.
I'm not sure how much quality I should expect from a $200 scope but I think they could have done better.
1st, the clarity and brightness are good. I have no complaints there. Even up to 16 power it's pretty good.
Eye relief is very user friendly at lower magnification, meaning you can move a good bit for and aft and maintain a good site picture. It gets more finicky at higher settings, but I would expect that. Really user friendly.
The zero re-set on the turrets is something I had to fiddle with to make it work. The screws on the tops have to be loosened up all the way and then you have to lift up the turret adjuster. It takes some fiddling to get them to go far enough up so that they can be re-set. But it does work.
I like the cross hairs. They are thinner than my old Bushnell Banner, but not too thin. In broad daylight I can't see the lighted cross hair feature. In the evening when the light got a bit lower, it showed up nice. It's a nice feature.
The adjustable parallax is really nice. It turns easy enough that I don't really need the big wheel that comes with it. The range numbers on it are a bit too small for these old eyes but I can live with it. Maybe I'll end up putting something on it that I can see better. The numbers appear to be pretty close to accurate. I have measured landmarks in my yard at 30-50 and 70 yards and the scope matched it fairly close.
The only real gripes I have are about the level.
1. I can't see the bubble when I'm aiming. It's so far down it's out of my site picture.
2. The bubble isn't level. OR, should I say, when I tilt so that the bubble is in the center, the cross hairs are not level.
I tried to take pictures of it with my phone camera and here's one. The gun is on a rest and I have the bubble in the center.
I put a carpenters level about 15 yards away to check it with .
Other than the level, I like the scope.
Edit, I emailed PA about the level. Hopefully they will take it back and exchange it.
I've seen a couple of pictures on the net and they didn't look like mine. In those, you can easily see the level.
