Tallcooldrink
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I’m curious what people thinkk about the ZeroTech scopes? I haven’t had any issues with my Vengeance 4.5-18 x 44 and I find it a really great value, personally.
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BigUglyMan
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This is the advice that I came to give. Changing horses mid-stream makes no sense. That's how I ended up with an orphaned Leupold Mark 4 3.5-10x. I should have just gone with the Nightforce off the hop rather than eventually getting to it. I also wish that I had bought a Zero Stop version, but that was my own damned mistake. And, since I'm regretting missteps, I should have gone with the 5.5-22x when I bought my first Nightforce for my 308 rather than the 3.5-15x.
While I have never personally had a nightforce I haven’t really heard anything bad about them other than the price. I do agree with the advice of buying what you know you like. I always find once I something “higher end” and try to go backwards it often ends up with disappointment or best case scenario of “meh……it’s OK”.
There are a lot of good scopes out there. Most newer shooters, either to the sport, or to a particular discipline, don't know what they want, because they may not know what they need, or why they need those features, but think more + bigger = better, but this is not always the case for a particular application. Over the last 50+ years I have gon through a lot of scopes. Very few were really bad, a couple were quite good. The 24 x Tasco target scope I used for varmint hunting on my .22-250 was amazing back in late 70's/early 80's; but won't even compare to a lot of the scopes available today.
Features you don't need can be confusing or annoying; cluttered reticles, 1st vs 2nd focal plane, Mil Rads vs MOA, not understanding focus vs parallax, big tube, little tube, medium tube, heavy/light, illuminated or not... Never have we had so much choice.
Most end up buying multiple scopes trying to find the "right one", some buy multiple rifles, again trying to find the right one. Few spend enough time with what they have to truly know what their equipment is capable of and how much they can achieve with what they have. Now, it often seems that many think if they buy the next "best thing", their shooting/accuracy/rifle will improve proportionate to money spent.
Some say spend as much on Glass as you did your rifle; some twice the price of the rifle; I say, do your research, ask others what they are using, what they like and what they dislike. Then spend at least as much as the rifle and scope on good ammo, and get your ass to the range. You will come away understanding the good, bad and the ugly of both the equipment and your own ability. That is the point when you are ready to start moving forward.
