Cabela's Covenant Tactical FFP Riflescopes

Got mine tonight, first impression is not bad, glass is at least equivalent to the Bushnell Legend HD's, eye relief is consistent and has a good eyebox at full zoom, seems pretty solidly made.
Comes with a cheesy Cabela's cloth scope cover, no lens caps, but I'm sure I have something around that will fit.
Will hopefully get it mounted on my 7mm mag this weekend and see how it holds up.
 
Now forgive my ignorance since this is my first FFP reticle scope. I get the reason behind the scope having the same subtensions throughout the magnification range for ease of range calculation. But the reticle isn't useable at the lower powers...like at all. I don't think you could range #### with this under 10x, and you can't even make out the center dot under 8x, reticle is pretty much just a blur at low power.
Am I missing some other great benefit FFP has over SFP? Or is this just not a great FFP reticle? A mildot would at least give you a cross hair of some sort at lower power right?
 
Got to piss around with it a bit today, 40 rounds om 7mm. Had lots of adjustment and easily zeroed at 100m with a 20moa base. I was a little disappointed with the optical quality at full power, getting lots of greyout/washout, color was dull, had to be in exactly the right spot for a decent sight picture....eyebox was small and unforgiving. Then I turned the ocular adjustment out a few turns and it was way better. Did make the parallax adjustment more touchy but I can live with that.
The target dot is great, worked really well at 200m today. The target below was Hornady 162gr interlock getting sighted in, the 2 through the same hole are 162 ELD-M. I quit shooting them after that lol, save em for longer distance.
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Hitzy said:
Now forgive my ignorance since this is my first FFP reticle scope. I get the reason behind the scope having the same subtensions throughout the magnification range for ease of range calculation. But the reticle isn't useable at the lower powers...like at all. I don't think you could range #### with this under 10x, and you can't even make out the center dot under 8x, reticle is pretty much just a blur at low power.
Am I missing some other great benefit FFP has over SFP? Or is this just not a great FFP reticle? A mildot would at least give you a cross hair of some sort at lower power right?
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My thoughts exactly.
 
Hitzy said:
Now forgive my ignorance since this is my first FFP reticle scope. I get the reason behind the scope having the same subtensions throughout the magnification range for ease of range calculation. But the reticle isn't useable at the lower powers...like at all. I don't think you could range #### with this under 10x, and you can't even make out the center dot under 8x, reticle is pretty much just a blur at low power.
Am I missing some other great benefit FFP has over SFP? Or is this just not a great FFP reticle? A mildot would at least give you a cross hair of some sort at lower power right?
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Have changed your mind about the usefulness of the reticle at low power magnification after you trip to the range?
 
Pax+Caritas said:
Have changed your mind about the usefulness of the reticle at low power magnification after you trip to the range?
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Nope... other then I would never need to use it on low power for the range so it's kind of moot.
For strictly target shooting at known distances, FFP offers nothing over SFP. And if you are a smaerter fella, you can range with SFP just as easily.
 
Hitzy said:
On sale for an even better price...$280.
Don't forget the free shipping code.
http://www.cabelas.ca/search?q=Covenant
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this ^^

Ordered mine last night. used promo code. I did just check the site right now, and they are back to regular price unfortunately for anyone else. You'll have to wait. I will also upload some pictures with some details on the scope once I get it. I ordered the 6-24x 50
 
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