Q&A for Minox ZP5 5-25x56mm THLR scope

I’ve pulled the one I mounted off today and boxed up both to go back depending on what Jake tells us. SWFA back on the R8 for now and didn’t pull the NXS F1 milspec off the AI.
 
Man, that does suck. Someone up above or in another thread made a crack about a bunch of these being the returns Blaser was sitting on, and given the volume of people with problems I'm starting to wonder if there isn't something to that.
That....or it's Mr. minox's downs syndrome son's attempts at putting together scopes 🤣.

For what its worth the range's shitty spotting scope was crystal clear 😅

If it was truly a "oh we found a bunch of scopes in a weird inventory location that were off the books" situation. Thats always tough. Usually 2 or 3 sets of employees have come and gone and it was forgotten why they were there, and why they weren't on the books. Could definitely be the culprit.

Not sure if this is normal or not as well...mine had quite a bit of oil accumulated. 20260122_184939.jpg
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Hahaha. WTF.

It seems like yes, these were returned scopes.

@EuroOptic , this might be worth discussing with your leadership. Did you, in fact, get a giant batch of $3000 scopes that were a bunch of returns? It puts you in a bad position. There are probably 8-10 so far that aren't working at all, with a bunch more that seem to not meet quality expectations compared to earlier known examples. Out of a shipment of how many?
 
Mounted both the white box and red box and spent some time with them today. I’m not having the issues that some guys are but there is a difference on DOF between the two. I wouldn’t say the red box is bad, it just isn’t near as good as the white box.

I have a couple different places where I can look at objects at different distances in the same field of view and it’s pretty noticeable. The parallax knob does work in the correct direction as labeled though.

One odd thing on the red box is it came out of the box with the little cylinder that prevents the turret from going to the second rev in the “wrong” position. Simple fix but odd none the less.

Side by side they are identical as far as I can tell, the only difference is the red box doesn’t have the sticker on the underside that the white box does? View attachment 1010646
It seems like the bottom of the turret on the scope on the right bulges out a bit compared to the one on the left. Maybe it's just the angle.
 
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