Swaro purchase update

[D Lee]

For anyone considering purchasing a new Swarovski. This is Not a scope performance review. Just a purchase update for your consideration. Had I known this earlier.........

For 2 of my hunting rifles, I have purchased 2 new Swarovskis'. A Z5i and a Z3.

The Z5i 2.4x12x50 is now on my 30-06. Provided there are no quality issues - it will stay on that rifle.

The Z3 - same power levels as the Z5 - had the Ballistic Turret. The external, multi colored dot system on the elevation turret - Hopeful - I thought this would end a lot of my personal dialing confusion. The perfect, simple system. All those high expectations crashed when I discovered what it took with the elevation turret just to prepare it for sighting in at 100 yards ONLY - and then reassemble all the many pieces with the Swaro "chip" provided to keep everything tight. Holy cow!!! I am a patient man but all those (too many) steps with the small plastic chip with TINY ajustment knobs - sorry - just not going to do that. God bless those of you who can. I wish I could.

This morning, exchanged it - another Z3 - no BT - no dialing - has the BRH reticle to help me with hold-overs. Yeah - I know - well short of all the dialing advantages. KISS always seems to work better for me. LR target work comes a distant second to my hunting - so I'll live with the hold-over disadvantages.

Will post a range update in a few days.

Cheers.

 

[ljalberta]

I love Swaro binos and spotters, but their scopes are a long way down the list of options I would choose.

Interested to see how your opinion forms after using them more.

 

[D Lee]

Thanks. I appreciate your comments. This is my first venture into Swaro - too many disappointing issues with newer Leupold's - not the older ones. Had it not been for those issues - Leupold or Zeiss Conquest would have been first choice.

Though it will only be a short test - I will post range results.