Q&A Vector Continental 2-12x44mm Field Eval

[Formidilosus]

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Thread 'Vector Continental 2-12x44mm Field Evaluation'

Aug 24, 2025

This is a field evaluation of the Vector Continental 2-12x44mm scope. This scope was sent to Ryan Avery for an evaluation.


The scope:
27.2oz



Turrets:

.1 mil per click, 10 mils per rev, not revolution indicated. Both elevation and windage are pull up to adjust, push down to lock. Elevation has a zero stop.

Turret in down “locked” position-



Turret in up “unlocked” position-



Additionally there in a revolution indicator button on top of the turret. It is flush when on the first rev-


And pops up on the second rev-...

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• Forum: Rifle Scope Field Evaluations

 

[Formidilosus]

Updated.

 

[RWT]

everything on this scope from the reticle to the turrets looks too busy.

It’s like they wanted a Toyota Camry to work for everything from grocery getter to hauling 6 kids to school to towing my tractor.

 

[Formidilosus]

everything on this scope from the reticle to the turrets looks too busy.

It’s like they wanted a Toyota Camry to work for everything from grocery getter to hauling 6 kids to school to towing my tractor.

Oh it’s mall ninja’d out. The reticle is atrocious- it might be the dumbest reticle I have seen in a scope. The ring is too large to use as any kind of aiming reference- even at 5 yards, but at the same time it takes up so much of the FOV. At 6.5x the ring disappears out of the FOV and then the reticle becomes usable. It’s like a video game reticle. Probably is.

Thing is, it’s the scope design that a lot of people want. Compact, looks good, 2-12’ish mag, etc. but, these companies are ran by nincompoops. Vector is just a Chinese owned and ran company- they were the ones with the crappy junk at local gun shows 15 years ago.

 

[RWT]

check the box. I am certain you will find a sticker reading:

“When purchasing this scope your gun will never run out of bullets, you will instantly know kung fu and become an expert zombie killer”.

It’s clearly a video game reticle. I believe I’ve seen it in the Jurassic Park shooting game.

 

[KJ_ND]

Off topic but is that an hub otb adapter on the rifle used?

 

[Formidilosus]

Off topic but is that an hub otb adapter on the rifle used?

These are not the droids you are looking for…

 

[Formidilosus]

Update to eval.

 

[Bater]

Hey Form, is this a 2-12 or 2-16? Title shows 16 but I assume it’s a 12? Please don’t take my question as a reason to assume I care about this scope, just curious.

 

[Formidilosus]

Hey Form, is this a 2-12 or 2-16? Title shows 16 but I assume it’s a 12? Please don’t take my question as a reason to assume I care about this scope, just curious.

It’s a 2-12x. Was a mistype.

 

[Hondo64d]

Looks like they tried (and failed) to somewhat mimic the reticle on the SWFA 1-6 HD. Too bad they didn’t get it right…

John

 

[Alaskahuntr1]

Update to eval.

Form, do you have one document somewhere where you list the scopes that have passed the field evals with good enough scores that they are worth buying?

There are just so many evals at this point that it’s difficult to sort through them all and identify scopes that one should actually purchase.

So far I’ve only been able to identify the maven rs 1.2, Nightforce SHV, and trijicon credo.

Primary use case is hunting.

 

[ztc92]

Form, do you have one document somewhere where you list the scopes that have passed the field evals with good enough scores that they are worth buying?

There are just so many evals at this point that it’s difficult to sort through them all and identify scopes that one should actually purchase.

So far I’ve only been able to identify the maven rs 1.2, Nightforce SHV, and trijicon credo.

Primary use case is hunting.

That’s a good start to your list. Only brand I’d add is SWFA. For hunting the 3-9, 3-15 and 6x are all very popular with the Milquad reticle.

 

[ztc92]

Oh also, since you didn’t mention them, know that the other Nightforce models and the Trijicon tenmile are highly regarded.

 

[Formidilosus]

Form, do you have one document somewhere where you list the scopes that have passed the field evals with good enough scores that they are worth buying?

No, because people need to actually read the Evals to understand what happened.


In general the below scope makes it models all tend to work without much issue.

Nightforce- basically all hunting and tactical version

Trijicon- pretty solid across the board

SWFA- fixed 6x and 10x; 3-9, 3-15x FFP, and 5-20x

Schmidt and Bender- Klassic, PMII, some others

Maven- RS1.2

Leupold Mark 4 fixed power 6x and 10x.


Those are pretty much the solid options of what’s available right now. I’m sure there are some others that are good, but they are few and far between.

 

[Dobermann]

No, because people need to actually read the Evals to understand what happened.


In general the below scope makes it models all tend to work without much issue.

Nightforce- basically all hunting and tactical version

Trijicon- pretty solid across the board

SWFA- fixed 6x and 10x; 3-9, 3-15x FFP, and 5-20x

Schmidt and Bender- Klassic, PMII, some others

Maven- RS1.2

Leupold Mark 4 fixed power 6x and 10x.


Those are pretty much the solid options of what’s available right now. I’m sure there are some others that are good, but they are few and far between.

Plus Minox ZP5 and Bushnell LRHS?

 

[Jordan Smith]

Plus Minox ZP5 and Bushnell LRHS?

And the DMR/XRS lines, I assume.

 

[Formidilosus]

Plus Minox ZP5 and Bushnell LRHS?

And the DMR/XRS lines, I assume.

I have only seen a couple ZP5’s, but they have worked correctly. They are larger than most would consider for a hunting scope.

For Bushnell yes and no. The early DMR and LRHS’s had almost no failures or problems. It seems- and I say “seems” because I do not have extensive experience with recent ones; that they aren’t quite as solid as they used to be. It’s anecdotal, but my perception is that they have more issues now; again, could be off here.
The real issue with the LRHS and even the LRHS 2 is that if it needs warranty- you do not get another LRHS. There is a member here now that had an LRHS2 fail- GAP said it was Bushnells to warranty, Bushnell wouldn’t/couldn’t replace with another LRHS because that is a GAP scope. So the user had to get another Bushnell product.
There have also been a couple LRHS’s needing service, and again they were not replaced with LRHS’s, but instead other Bushneel scopes.

 

[Jordan Smith]

I have only seen a couple ZP5’s, but they have worked correctly. They are larger than most would consider for a hunting scope.

For Bushnell yes and no. The early DMR and LRHS’s had almost no failures or problems. It seems- and I say “seems” because I do not have extensive experience with recent ones; that they aren’t quite as solid as they used to be. It’s anecdotal, but my perception is that they have more issues now; again, could be off here.
The real issue with the LRHS and even the LRHS 2 is that if it needs warranty- you do not get another LRHS. There is a member here now that had an LRHS2 fail- GAP said it was Bushnells to warranty, Bushnell wouldn’t/couldn’t replace with another LRHS because that is a GAP scope. So the user had to get another Bushnell product.
There have also been a couple LRHS’s needing service, and again they were not replaced with LRHS’s, but instead other Bushneel scopes.

Agreed on the warranty issue, and that's a bit lame of both GAP and Bushnell. Just wanted to point out/clarify that the mechanically reliable Bushnell models include the LRHS/LRTS/DMR/XRS lines. Those (including the Gen 2 and 3 versions) have worked correctly, IME, but I haven't been around nearly the sample size that you have.

Been carrying a Tikka T3x SL in 6.5 CM with an early 3-12x LRHS mounted in SM rings this season through 2 sheep hunts and a moose hunt, so far. On one of the sheep hunts, a sheep was laying dead on the side of a steep scree slope. The rifle was leaned steeply upslope against the sheep for pics, when the sheep shifted and the rifle slid and fell downslope onto the scope (probably ~30" fall for the scope) on the scree rock. Checked zero when I got back to the range. No zero shift.