3-15 power lightweight scopes?

[Elkfitness]

I have a Nikon monarch 3 2-5-10x42 on my Kimber adirondack now. I've only taken it out a few times but I can hold 3/4" groups with it currently. I do want to bump up the power on my scope. My eyes seem to like the 15-16 top power scopes. Looking to keep it lightweight and with a 40 or 42 objective and a 1" tube. I was thinking about the vortex razor 3-15 scope. I want to keep the cost under a $1000 for scope. Is the vortex the best option. I read the review here and it sounds like the one. Anything else I should look at?

 

[dotman]

Bump your budget up a few hundred and get the swaro Z5.

 

[Elkfitness]

Is it $500 better? I haven't looked through a swaro so not sure. For reference, I run a vortex viper 4-16 on another rifle, vortex diamondback binocs, and a vortex razor 11-33x50 spotting scope. My mind says it is a better scope for sure, but unsure how much better it is.

 

[dotman]

Pricing is still around $1250 the reduced pricing for 2017. IMO it is $500 better.

 

[Elkfitness]

I will try to find one to check out!

 

[dotman]

If you don't find the reduced pricing local Doug announced it at Cameralandny in his Shot Show report so you can get it there.

 

[dah605]

The glass on the Swaro is better, but the Razor is very good. I've got the Razor on a 7mmRM and a friend has the Swaro on couple of rifles. The light weight offerings definitely bring in some tradeoffs.

The Swaro turrets have a much more positive feel to them that the Razor, but are limited to 1 revolution, so if you want to shoot longer than what 1 rotation allows, you are forced to do holdovers... which leads to me next beef... the BRX reticle is Mil with MOA turrets.

The Leupold VX6-HD peaks my interest a bit in this category. The MSRP is up there, though.

I like my Razor HD LH with HSR reticle, I just wish the turrets had a nice click to them, rather than a more mushy feel.

-David

 

[Jeff Martin]

Vx6

 

[GKPrice]

doesn't Cabela's have the VX-6 on sale for $500 off retail ?

 

[todd kelly]

Bump your budget up a few hundred and get the swaro Z5.

X2. The Z5 has been the best scope I have ever used and can't find any reason or anything I would change about it. It's power range is perfect for everything from up close bear hunting to long range mountain hunting. The fit and finish is what you expect from swaro, its very sleek for a 44mm scope, and light weight for it's size. And there tough. I fell a few years ago while goat hunting and landed on my rifle. I hit hard enough to break one scope ring and crack the other. I was worried I had messed up my scope, but after getting everything back together, the scope was still bang on and has been perfect since.

And I have never met anyone who has sold all their Swaro glass to buy Vortex instead, but sure have met a lot who have sold all their Vortex to upgrade to one of the big three. But I can see how it easy it could be to get sucked into the vortex as they spend a ton on marketing and have sponsored ever hunting tv show host out there.

 

[rodney482]

Vortex Razor LH

 

[Axlrod]

Get the Z5 with the BT and don't look back. Ive used them all and for a hunting scope the Z5 is by far the best ive seen.
If you buy a $1000 Vortex the store selling it gets $500 so you are getting $500 worth of glass

 

[mtnwrunner]

Vortex Razor LH

This ^^^^^ is a really good choice and one other I might recommend although it is only 14 power max is the burris. I really like the long range MOA reticle this one has to offer and it is 15 ounces. Great option for a lightweight rifle

Randy

Fullfield E1™ Riflescope 4.5-14x42mm | Burris Optics

 

[Jon Boy]

Ive had a razor lh on my tikka for a month or two. Glass is great and I like the reticle, but dang if it isn't hard to 'get into' it takes me a while to do each and every time. Also, the mushy turret is not my thing. Thinking of going to the z5 next. Anyone compared the two? I'm hoping it would fix the problems I have with the razor.

 

[Elkfitness]

Appreciate all the info guys. It really helps. Thanks!

 

[cuerro viejo]

Pricing is still around $1250 the reduced pricing for 2017. IMO it is $500 better.

Yelp unless you like to max out the turrets... then Vortex. But glass wise swaro for sure

 

[GKPrice]

it seems as though I've read more negative from former Vor*** users
than any 2 "other" upper end scope users, maybe closer to 3

I currently have a SWFA 3x9x42 on the way (don't tell Leupold !)

 

[dotman]

Yelp unless you like to max out the turrets... then Vortex. But glass wise swaro for sure

Yeah the one turn turret is why I went to Nightforce.

 

[todd kelly]

Yeah the one turn turret is why I went to Nightforce.

Yes a downside of using the BT on the swaro....... But for my setup, 1 turn gets my 3oo bee dialed into 600m (656 yards) further then I like to shoot on an animal, so I'm fine with that restriction.

 

[KClark]

it seems as though I've read more negative from former Vor*** users
than any 2 "other" upper end scope users, maybe closer to 3)

Count me as one, The 2 V Vipers I had were no better than cheap Nikons.