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

[schmidty3]

Could be a nothing burger, but at minimum might show a process change.

 

[schmidty3]

Completed my Pepsi challenge.

Confirmed that the range we were shooting in just really sucked. Poorly lit. Very humid air/poor circulation and just above freezing.

Stacked the athlon (current gamer), the nx8 (current hunter), against the minox. Glass on the minox is better, and seems better across the board except for sub 50 yards. Was getting a lot of mirage off of the warming road. But i could see it much easier in the minox. I'll run it at the NRL this weekend and see what I see. I'll bring the nx8 and compare against it to further ranges.

Could only see to about 200 yards down my street. So hard to really see the parallax forgiveness.

The amount of oil pooled on the NIB scope still has me dubious

 

[Schaaf]

Anybody else’s set to the 2nd revolution out of the box? Mine was limited to 13.7 mils of travel. Had to look at the instructions and move the internal stop in to the first rev position then i had the correct amount.

Mine came set at the second rev as well

 

[ckleeves]

@EuroOptic,
First off sorry you guys are having to deal with this. I don’t think anyone could have possible seen this coming but I’m at least thankful Eurooptic is involved because I have no doubt you guys will go above and beyond like you always do.

Couple questions for your Blaser/Minox rep:
What are repairs down the road looking like? Is Blaser planning on or do they currently have a stock of parts for ZP5’s where in 8 years if something goes wrong will we have a scope that can be repaired?

Reason I ask is probably 10 years ago I had a Minox go belly up and they deemed it not repairable and actually gave me the next model up due to mine not being made anymore. Which is fantastic, but in this case I don’t think there is a comparable scope and the THLR reticle more than likely is gone.

Next question would be is there a way for them to find the history of each scope by serial number and see if it was a return, serviced at one point, demo, prototype, failed QC, etc? I think at this point it at least appears something is funky with these, maybe even the ones that seem OK. There is no way 20-30% ish of the ZP5’s shipped out in the past have had problems. A clear history would be nice to see.

Normally I wouldn’t be concerned but I feel like with there not really being replacements of these available and service being overseas (at least that’s my understanding) transparency on the history and future warranty/service of these would be nice to see.

 

[EuroOptic]

@EuroOptic,
First off sorry you guys are having to deal with this. I don’t think anyone could have possible seen this coming but I’m at least thankful Eurooptic is involved because I have no doubt you guys will go above and beyond like you always do.

Couple questions for your Blaser/Minox rep:
What are repairs down the road looking like? Is Blaser planning on or do they currently have a stock of parts for ZP5’s where in 8 years if something goes wrong will we have a scope that can be repaired?

Reason I ask is probably 10 years ago I had a Minox go belly up and they deemed it not repairable and actually gave me the next model up due to mine not being made anymore. Which is fantastic, but in this case I don’t think there is a comparable scope and the THLR reticle more than likely is gone.

Next question would be is there a way for them to find the history of each scope by serial number and see if it was a return, serviced at one point, demo, prototype, failed QC, etc? I think at this point it at least appears something is funky with these, maybe even the ones that seem OK. There is no way 20-30% ish of the ZP5’s shipped out in the past have had problems. A clear history would be nice to see.

Normally I wouldn’t be concerned but I feel like with there not really being replacements of these available and service being overseas (at least that’s my understanding) transparency on the history and future warranty/service of these would be nice to see.

I just screenshotted your whole message and attached it to the email chain, I'll let you know what the response is

 

[ID_Matt]

Mine came set at the second rev as well

Sounds like most did. It took me a minute to figure out how to get it set correctly. Not that I will need 13.7 mils of elevation very often but may as well have it set with the proper amount available.

 

[Nine Banger]

Sounds like most did. It took me a minute to figure out how to get it set correctly. Not that I will need 13.7 mils of elevation very often but may as well have it set with the proper amount available.

Same, it was set at zero between the 2 revs.

I was looking at my dope charts, pondering a pic rail and it totally sunk in how unimportant 28 mils of travel is.