PRS scope that passes drop eval?

[Ruggedsportsman]

Well I guess im going to use it for NRL hunter. But is it really just nightforce? Looking for a 34mm tube FFP w/ MOA reticle

 

[mj23polaris]

Zeiss s3 I don’t remember if they do moa, but I’m about to start year 2 with one, love it, rock solid scope in nf rings. Got it bc it fit the bill and passed drop


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[Ruggedsportsman]

Zeiss s3 I don’t remember if they do moa, but I’m about to start year 2 with one, love it, rock solid scope in nf rings. Got it bc it fit the bill and passed drop


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Definitely fits the bill but I am kind of uneasy with Zeiss since the V4 and s5 failed the drop eval

 

[mj23polaris]

Dude I wouldn’t hesitate with the s3 line, I’d buy another, I shoot a few PRS matches and 4-5 NRL hunter matches a year with it plus all the practice in between in NF rings and it’s been rock steady. Good glass, the fov is big in the meat of the mag range like 12-25x. The reticle is awesome, in mil it does a dot at .5 mil mark and it’s a good reference mark for bracketing or getting quick reference. I’ve track tested it a few times and it’s been spot on.

I don’t know if it correlates but Zeiss told me they recommend 25in lb for ring caps in the 34mm scopes. Well I run my NF with 25in lbs all in nf rings and my zeiss with 25in lb in nf rings and they all hold zero. The trijicons I owned never had ring cap torque specs and they always held zero in NF rings. So if the scope can take 25in lbs it should be good to go in my opinion/what I’ve seen.


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[SloppyJ]

4x32 Nx8 for me. Hard to beat. Shoot a Maven on that B.

 

[mj23polaris]

Yeah nx8 4-32 also is a good one I used mine in matches before it became a hunting only scope and it’s has also never let me down.


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[Hydra6]

For PRS, ATACR 7-35 and MIL-C reticle.

For NRL Hunter, I would look at the new NX6 series when they become available or the NX8 series - again in MILs.

Maybe a SWFA 3-15FFP would be an option - 15x probably enough.

 

[JohnJohnson]

You should strongly consider not using MOA anything if PRS or NRLH are on the menu. It's a flat out worse system compared to MRAD and almost no one at the matches will be using MOA. So it's harder to communicate. Anyway for your uses maybe preorder a NF NX6 of some flavor.

 

[Hydra6]

You should strongly consider not using MOA anything if PRS or NRLH are on the menu. It's a flat out worse system compared to MRAD and almost no one at the matches will be using MOA. So it's harder to communicate.

This - but often new shooters insist MOA is just fine - and it is until you are talking a different "language" with all your buddies

 

[Ruggedsportsman]

Yeah nx8 4-32 also is a good one I used mine in matches before it became a hunting only scope and it’s has also never let me down.


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Definitely a great scope but I have one on a hunting rig. Prefer to look at 34mm tubes

 

[wpeach1912]

Definitely a great scope but I have one on a hunting rig. Prefer to look at 34mm tubes

Idk if the G3 razors have been tested, but I know the G2s were generally regarded as quite tough. I also think it has as much to do with the mounting system as the scope itself. If you want a G3 4-24 in MOA for a good deal I may know a guy

 

[Hydra6]

Definitely a great scope but I have one on a hunting rig. Prefer to look at 34mm tubes

NRL Hunter has weight limits - 34mm scopes tend to be heavy

 

[alexnelon]

For strictly playing games, I don't think it's that big of a deal to pass a drop eval.

The zero board is open every morning, and PRS matches will frequently have zero boards set up every few stages. You have 45+ minutes between stages. If your rifle falls, you just run over to the zero board.

All the guys who win are shooting Kahles, Vortex, and Leupold for the most part and they generally don't really care if the zero is off, they just want to know where the zero is and then adjust the zero offset in the kestrel.

When you're constantly shooting, losing zero by a tenth from the car ride in isn't that big of a deal. The much much more common issue I see that causes disaster stages is improper scope/ring mounting, loose action screws, and mags that won't feed.

 

[Lawnboi]

For strictly playing games, I don't think it's that big of a deal to pass a drop eval.

The zero board is open every morning, and PRS matches will frequently have zero boards set up every few stages. You have 45+ minutes between stages. If your rifle falls, you just run over to the zero board.

All the guys who win are shooting Kahles, Vortex, and Leupold for the most part and they generally don't really care if the zero is off, they just want to know where the zero is and then adjust the zero offset in the kestrel.

When you're constantly shooting, losing zero by a tenth from the car ride in isn't that big of a deal. The much much more common issue I see that causes disaster stages is improper scope/ring mounting, loose action screws, and mags that won't feed.

This is very location dependent. Many of the matches around here don’t have zero boards at all.

I see enough high and low misses and people complaining of non matching data that I choose to shoot a reliable scope, even though the game is not very demanding on it.

I started with an Athlon that was an issue. Nothing more frustrating to a new shooter than chasing a zero or data that isn’t lining up. The guys that are good recognize those one and two tenth shifts fast. A beginner might not notice it all day.

 

[ddowning]

It was a pissant local regional series, but between the matches I lost by 1 point and the scope failing altogether at the finale, a Vortex cost me a series win. Every match it needed a .1 to .3 adjustment which happened on the paint of the first stage because there were no zero boards. There is an awful lot of merit to a system that absolutely holds zero.

 

[Ruggedsportsman]

For strictly playing games, I don't think it's that big of a deal to pass a drop eval.

The zero board is open every morning, and PRS matches will frequently have zero boards set up every few stages. You have 45+ minutes between stages. If your rifle falls, you just run over to the zero board.

All the guys who win are shooting Kahles, Vortex, and Leupold for the most part and they generally don't really care if the zero is off, they just want to know where the zero is and then adjust the zero offset in the kestrel.

When you're constantly shooting, losing zero by a tenth from the car ride in isn't that big of a deal. The much much more common issue I see that causes disaster stages is improper scope/ring mounting, loose action screws, and mags that won't feed.

So actually I had a vortex viper PST gen 2 that lost zero about a foot right at the last stage of my first match. It wasn’t until a Leupold VX5 I had on my hunting rifle lost zero that I dove down the drop test rabbit hole. Our local only has a zero board before the match then we drive to a private area of the ranch to compete. I don’t know. I have replaced every single one of my riflescopes with brands that have only passed drop eval’s so I wouldn’t feel right spending money on something that hasn’t passed