Swarovski Z5i

[13bonatter69]

I am looking for the best glass I can afford for a 6.5 prc. Would like to keep it around 1500 or so. I love the specs of the Z5I 3.5-18x44. It seems that the swaro gets great reviews for glass quality, fit and finish, weight and so on. It seems it only gets dinged on amount of travel and maybe reliability for dialing. My question is....... would you consider this scope a descent option if I was only dialing up to 500? I honestly dont need much travel to go out to that distance, and its not like I will be dialing daily......lol

 

[SloppyJ]

No I wouldn't consider that viable. Since you're new here, take a look at the drop evals and go from there. You're right in the pocket of affording a proven scope with a $1500 budget. Look in the classifieds as well. You might be able to come up with a nice NX8 for that.

 

[13bonatter69]

maybe I would be safer with a vx5 or vx6

 

[Dackdack]

I own one as well as a few freinds. We have had no issues and some of them are pretty hard on gear. I watched a friend take a huge spill with his rifle and the next day he took it out and shot it and it was bang on. I’ve seen them smashed so hard against big tree branches that I thought the turret should’ve sheared off while on the front of an ATV and same thing, no issue yet. Just my experience.