Hey all,
I wanted to open the can of worms surrounding Vortex. I hear some people with bad experiences, but I also see them being run by a ####load of people. (including me). So might as well see what people think about them other than just about their warrenty, maybe product review as best you can about what you run and how it has held up.
So I have a Razor Spotting scope 20-60x85. Bought used, seems to have taken some tumbles from previous owner. There is the faintest black spec in the glass if you look hard enough, so you never notice it unless you look for it. The scope is crisp as all heck. The glass seems great, when i have a steady tripod set up i can zoom in on mulies at 900+ yards and count points all day long. The two stage focus is really just a one stage as you never use the coarse knob, but who really cares. I know it is a fairly decent step up from the Viper HD, but even the Viper HD I have used quite a bit was a treat to use.. cant complain about watching sheep wiskers wiggle at over 500.
I also have a Razor HD LH 3-15x42 scope on my 7mm tikka. I can only really say good things about it aswell. I have had to use the warrenty once though. My side parallax became slight chunky on a cold BC Region 2 sleet/snow day (a day like this killed a burris E1 on my 243 this year.. Alot of water in the scope). Still worked fine, but they got me to send it back and replaced the whole scope. Ive found the eye box very forgiving, huge eye relief (scope is as far forward as it can go). The sight picture is full and glass is comparable to anything I've compared it to. (the nicest being a big bell swaro something or other). So one warranty, but other than that no complaints
And last but not least i have recently picked up Crossfire 2 for a target 223 we have. I did notice eye fatigue pretty quickly on highest power but will try to mitigate that with both eyes open, cheek pad and double checking my eye piece focus (that i never really seem to be able to nail). Before my eye fatigue set in I was able to crisp it up pretty good to view the target at 100. The turrets (if they track true and i will test this) are re-zeroable and present wonderfully crisp clicks... so so far seems pretty good. We're going to be clicking this scope around like mad, doing long range shooting as far as we can push it so it should get a pretty good working over under me (and my hunting partner-shared gun).
Anyways if anyone wants to chime in on their experiences feel free too about rifle scopes or anything else
I wanted to open the can of worms surrounding Vortex. I hear some people with bad experiences, but I also see them being run by a ####load of people. (including me). So might as well see what people think about them other than just about their warrenty, maybe product review as best you can about what you run and how it has held up.
So I have a Razor Spotting scope 20-60x85. Bought used, seems to have taken some tumbles from previous owner. There is the faintest black spec in the glass if you look hard enough, so you never notice it unless you look for it. The scope is crisp as all heck. The glass seems great, when i have a steady tripod set up i can zoom in on mulies at 900+ yards and count points all day long. The two stage focus is really just a one stage as you never use the coarse knob, but who really cares. I know it is a fairly decent step up from the Viper HD, but even the Viper HD I have used quite a bit was a treat to use.. cant complain about watching sheep wiskers wiggle at over 500.
I also have a Razor HD LH 3-15x42 scope on my 7mm tikka. I can only really say good things about it aswell. I have had to use the warrenty once though. My side parallax became slight chunky on a cold BC Region 2 sleet/snow day (a day like this killed a burris E1 on my 243 this year.. Alot of water in the scope). Still worked fine, but they got me to send it back and replaced the whole scope. Ive found the eye box very forgiving, huge eye relief (scope is as far forward as it can go). The sight picture is full and glass is comparable to anything I've compared it to. (the nicest being a big bell swaro something or other). So one warranty, but other than that no complaints
And last but not least i have recently picked up Crossfire 2 for a target 223 we have. I did notice eye fatigue pretty quickly on highest power but will try to mitigate that with both eyes open, cheek pad and double checking my eye piece focus (that i never really seem to be able to nail). Before my eye fatigue set in I was able to crisp it up pretty good to view the target at 100. The turrets (if they track true and i will test this) are re-zeroable and present wonderfully crisp clicks... so so far seems pretty good. We're going to be clicking this scope around like mad, doing long range shooting as far as we can push it so it should get a pretty good working over under me (and my hunting partner-shared gun).
Anyways if anyone wants to chime in on their experiences feel free too about rifle scopes or anything else
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