PRS scope that passes drop eval?

[prairieboy]

In the midwest there is, of course, the large zco movement and then the TT guys. There is a massive group that got pissed about the reliability of mid-tier scopes shooting nx8 with mil xt, also a few shooting zeiss s3.

are you saying the nx8 was not reliable? serious question here

 

[ddowning]

are you saying the nx8 was not reliable? serious question here

No. The opposite, but after re-reading I can understand the question. Guys were running Vortex and Athlon and the scopes were failing. To be very honest, the company culture at Vortex was (maybe still is) pretty incredible for the most part. They had/have some very truly good, God fearing people that work there and care deeply about the customers and people in general. When there were issues they were as authentically disappointed as many of us customers were. When it was brought up that there were issues, many did not deny that there were issues. It was nearly impossible to deny even from a simply anecdotal evidence. It would have required the engineers to admit there was a flaw and fix it. Many of us could not get them to admit there was a problem. Who knows if it was ego, money, etc. When you are dealing with a bunch of great well meaning people and a product that doesn't work, it is easy to have a lot of patience. Many people in that company that were face to face with customers and sponsored shooters on a daily basis deeply wanted the problems to be fixed. Eventually, they wear you out and you are done.

TT seems to be good enough to work as long as it is not abused. ZCO needs good mounting options. I have barely played with a ZCO, but there are a couple guys with machining capabilities that are incredible minds and shooters that made their own mounts to solve problems. After that, problems were solved. I was told the mounts were one off and not feasible for mass production. Nightforce has been pretty solid as you would expect, it just doesn't have the greatest glass. Same with the Zeiss s3. The s5 had issues with durability, but the s3 has been pretty decent.

What I was trying to say, there are guys that know nothing about the rokslide drop tests that have been saying f it, I'm going to shoot Nightforce and stop worrying about it. They figured out that they don’t have problems with Nightforce holding zero. When you shoot as much as most of these guys do, it is not hard to see things even though there really isn't a systematic approach. The difference is, without a systematic approach to identify what is going on, you question if what you are seeing is real.

 

[Castle Rock]

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.

What a foreign concept

 

[hunterguy122]

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.

What scope do you use for PRS?