Lightweight build - optic

[texansport]

Looking for a light weight hunting optic for an ultralight build. Rifle is superlight Tikka action with UM action lightening, XLR chassis (maybe rokstok if they come in stock), 20” steel barrel, 6.5 PRC. Gun should finish right around 7.2lbs including rings and optic.

Hoping to get a few opinions, my priorities are reliability>weight>glass. My local range is 600, but I wouldn’t realistically shoot at an animal above ~450.

I would like something I can reliably dial, under 20oz, and ideally FFP, MIL, minimum of 8x and with a parallax adjustment. Otherwise I have a BDC Swaro Z5 3.5-18 that has been great in the past.

I’ve been looking at these scopes, mostly based on reviews here:
1) Maven RS.2 - 2-10X38 - 12.4oz (no parallax adjustment, SFP)
2) Nightforce NX8 1-8x24mm - 17.6oz (small exit pupil, not a great hunting reticle)
3) Nightforce NXS 2.5-10x42 - 20.5 oz (no need for ranging scale and SFP)
4) Swarovski Z6 2.5-15x44 - 19.6oz (dialing reliability reviews, SFP).
5) Razor HD LHT 3-15x42 -19.1 oz (SFP)

Are there optics I haven’t considered, but should? I have always used Zeiss or Swaro BDC riflescopes but I would like to start dialing for this build (mostly to learn). Budget around 2K.

 

[LightFoot]

NF NXS would be a great scope.

Since you like Swaro, the new Z5+ line may fit your requirements.

I have the Trijicon 3-18x44 on mine and really like it.

>>>——JAKE——>

 

[Tahoe1305]

NF NXS would be a great scope.

Since you like Swaro, the new Z5+ line may fit your requirements.

I have the Trijicon 3-18x44 on mine and really like it.

>>>——JAKE——>

Just thinking same! I had to google weight real quick but for 4oz penalty seems like checking a lot of your boxes.

 

[texansport]

Just thinking same! I had to google weight real quick but for 4oz penalty seems like checking a lot of your boxes.

Did you mean the trijicon or Z5+?

Edited: Ah I see the trijicon is 24.4oz.

 

[gr8fuldoug]

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• Magnification throw lever

 

[WeiserBucks]

NXS or S&B Klassik

 

[Samson7x]

NXS or S&B Klassik

This.

 

[texansport]

Schmidt Bender 3-12x42mm Klassik LM P3L BDC H​

Looks pretty sweet and is FFP for a one ounce penalty.

 

[texansport]

Klassic 3-12, Z5+ 2-10, and NXS all seem to fit the bill. NXS seems to have the most recommendations so far..

 

[z987k]

I would like something I can reliably dial, under 20oz, and ideally FFP, MIL, minimum of 8x and with a parallax adjustment. Otherwise I have a BDC Swaro Z5 3.5-18 that has been great in the past.

This is what everyone wants but it doesn't exist.
The S&B is real close but it's over 20oz and no parallax.
The nxs is the closest, but no FFP.

 

[texansport]

This is what everyone wants but it doesn't exist.
The S&B is real close but it's over 20oz and no parallax.
The nxs is the closest, but no FFP.

I think I’m leaning towards the Swaro Z5+ 3.5-18 or 2-10. Not FFP.

 

[Bama67]

not much out there for light scopes.
The SWFA 3x9 is 20oz

 

[David Walter]

I have a SWFA6XMQ on my lightweight rifle, a Barrett Fieldcraft. And I don’t feel like I’m giving up anything in performance.

 

[SDHNTR]

NXS. Swaro scopes are garbage.

 

[6.5x284]

I have the little NXS. No issues so far running to 1100 yards. On a long action I’d look at something else, the little NXS wouldn’t give me adequate LA eye relief.


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[199p]

New Sarovski z5+ look good, got a mate who has one and clicks seem solid but im not sure he has sighted in yet but he said the new turret feels great so far

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think ill pick up a 2-10 for my 6prc build and see how it runs

 

[tam9492]

I’ve had the Vortex LHT, and I currently have the Maven on RS.2 on my ultralight custom. For a pure, simple ultralight setup, I really like the Maven. It fits the bill for exactly what I need.

 

[ResearchinStuff]

swfa 3-9

 

[Stinky Coyote]

I grabbed a Sako 90 peak 308 recently and it wore 3 scopes for 3 kills and now I think it’s got a match with the nx8 1-8x dmx capped. Gp hunt to 600 set up and as perfect as I could find to suit the compact bombproof grail set up.

Is it perfect? No, that doesn’t exist. Highly versatile and functional though and it was designed to do what basically what I want to and do. Designed for speed from off muzzle to 600 or more in 3-gun type competition or le/military. Which overlaps what I want to do for GP and hunting coyotes and bigger. Red dot to 8x precision tree and speed to any part of it. Been working it over to 640 so far and really liking it. Any trade offs easily offset by its attributes. I disagree with poor reticle for hunting and exit pupil. Dmx is great reticle for speed work and precision work, and exit pupil not an issue, at 8x nearly same as 10x32 bino, at 6x where it's highly usable and most likely to be kept a lot of the time it's about the same as a 10x42 bino.

Would .1 mil click be better? Sure but not hard to work with, couldn’t get 200 zero but 185 or 205 between clicks on mine so 205 works. And the most you can be out on windage is .1 mil on zero also highly functional to distances I’ll play in anyway. Does it focus well at both ends of mag range? No but again, focus it more around middle high range where it matters and a bit fuzzy on the red dot end does not impede function for when you’re doing red dot range work. But it’s kind of unicorn in its robust, compact, weight...for the functionality and speed it offers. It suits and still mounts easily on a short action 40" rifle. Might be a little short for easy mounting over long action. My targets are all coyotes or bigger. All hunt and gp focused. It’s one helluva tool imo, not a perfectly polished Rolex but rather a seiko jdm.

So for what you described for goals. Sounded a lot like mine, this where buck stops for me now. I also have moved into ballistic rangefinder to feed it and reticle only for solutions. Mostly my eyes didn’t want to deal with readers anymore while hunting but seeing the benefits of going from one focused optic into the other re; speed and also capped 205 zero removing all loss of zero variables possible in construction and being capped and on the right hunting zero. I’d do that again even if eyes didn’t need readers but didn’t fully understand the benefits until I put some time behind the new solutions to remove need for reading anything small on rifle between rangefinder and shooting. so almost an accidental that I ended up with this system.

 

[David Walter]

I find the fixed power scopes keep me from dicking around with the power ring when I should be shooting. Adult ADHD and all that.

6x isn’t too much, and it isn’t too little. Even when I’m shooting a 3-9, it’s mostly set on 6x and left there.