nightforce shv
- Thread starter brybenn
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JDForBrkFst
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Roughly North Central AB
I am absolutely in love with my SHV. I've run a lot of the other offerings. With the SHV the glass, features, and price balance out to be the best for my purposes.
LdSH_Tanker
Member
- Location
- Oromocto NB
Swaro z3 or z5 and if you have the cash z6 are all AMAZING scopes.
But with the SHV price your only looking at z3 series which is still amazing glass. But its a totally different scope when comparing to the SHV.
But with the SHV price your only looking at z3 series which is still amazing glass. But its a totally different scope when comparing to the SHV.
I've just begun playing with a 4-14x56mm SHV with illuminated MOAR reticle. Big and clunky, but I love it so far. SFP reticle location works perfectly for me; several decades of using SFP make me comfortable with it. FFP offers me no advantage in terms of ranging, since I am always using a laser, and if I actually need it I can spare the fraction of a second needed to zoom up to max power. Similarly, MOA/MOA is far preferable to someone accustomed to MOA-thinking; I've toyed with Mildot scopes just enough to know that I don't need the challenge of learning a whole new way to shoot. To quote one of my father's favourite expressions: "You learn something new every day...and at my age I'm getting pretty sick and tired of it!" 
I'm not an operator, not a competitor or long-range sniper, just a hunter who thinks that a huge objective lens might be just the ticket for near-dark shooting opportunities. And make no mistake, this thing puts my smaller Leupold and Zeiss scopes to shame when the light goes away.
The capped, finger-adjustable, resettable turrets are well-marked and have a great feel to them. The reticle illumination goes down low enough to use in near-darkness; the "off" position between each intensity-adjustment setting is nice. And the reticle is a joy for my dinosaur brain to understand and quickly utilize.
I bought this off the EE (thanks, Murray!) specifically to use on an elk hunt this fall. Last year I was standing in an open field at dusk, looking at large animals in the gloom under the trees across the clearing. No way could I see them well enough to shoot. My binoculars told me there was no shooter among them...thank goodness!...but if there had been I would have been hooped. I'm hoping to mitigate that particular problem with this scope.
I'm not an operator, not a competitor or long-range sniper, just a hunter who thinks that a huge objective lens might be just the ticket for near-dark shooting opportunities. And make no mistake, this thing puts my smaller Leupold and Zeiss scopes to shame when the light goes away.The capped, finger-adjustable, resettable turrets are well-marked and have a great feel to them. The reticle illumination goes down low enough to use in near-darkness; the "off" position between each intensity-adjustment setting is nice. And the reticle is a joy for my dinosaur brain to understand and quickly utilize.
I bought this off the EE (thanks, Murray!) specifically to use on an elk hunt this fall. Last year I was standing in an open field at dusk, looking at large animals in the gloom under the trees across the clearing. No way could I see them well enough to shoot. My binoculars told me there was no shooter among them...thank goodness!...but if there had been I would have been hooped. I'm hoping to mitigate that particular problem with this scope.
