Would you buy this scope?

[Formidilosus]

If you had to pick between those hawkins ultralight tactical and the UM premier rings, what's your choice?

Neither.

 

[Formidilosus]

This is driving me nuts (and it's a short trip), so I'm just going to throw it out there.

• Consider changing the increment of illumination to "loop" (1-2-3-4-5-1-2-3-4-5...) rather than subsequent presses (1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1). Some, like me, do not like (putting it mildly) the button but understand the weight savings and bulk. If you press one too many times and miss the intentional setting, do you really want to cycle 9x to get back to where you want it set? The "loop" is about half that many presses.

I will ask about that.

• Consider illuminating more than just the center dot.
  • One, when illumination is needed just illuminating the center dot, does it not eliminate seeing all the windage markings? If the center dot is not visible under the ambient conditions, how are the windage marks visible?
  • Two, maybe a lot of you are not old enough or just haven't experienced it yet; by mid 40's around 33% start to experience astigmatism; at mid 60's that jumps to 67% and rapidly increases as one gets older. Depending on the severity, the illuminated red dot no longer appears as a dot. The non-illuminated black etched dot is fine, but a single red illuminated dot is useless. Illuminating a greater area forces the brain to take in more information somewhat mitigating the center dot explosion/starburst/comet appearance.

Appreciate the suggestion, but that’s a hard no. Just the center dot, and that it goes very dim was a requirement from us.


In light low enough that someone needs illumination, they should not be shooting far enough to need windage.
On top of that, illuminating more of the reticle blows out your vision and lose what is behind it.

• Consider either a choice of either red or green illumination or integrating both as Nightforce does in the NX6 line. Why? The worst color for colorblind people is red. Also, green greatly mitigates the explode/starburst/comet appearance for astigmatism. Illumination is great to have, and I know green consumes more energy, but is Illumination needed all the time?

I see a large comet on all illuminated red center dots no matter how great the glass. Non-illuminated black is crystal clear. For me a crosshair is better, if illuminated and the color is green it's great!

Everything else on this S2H scope is fantastic and would not bother me at all if there was an upcharge for an option with the above features.

Note: Edited for grammar.

Again, appreciate the suggestion, but that was discussed and decided against. Anything that adds complexity is not good for reliability or durability. It also adds cost, to an already very expensive scope- that is going to be sold way under what it should.

 

[pattimusprime22]

Neither.

Nightforce then? What's the durable/reliable choice for putting on a pic rail?

 

[Formidilosus]

Nightforce then? What's the durable/reliable choice for putting on a pic rail?

Yes- NF UL pic rings or whatever they call them now.

 

[Dobermann]

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Well ... Form did say once here that he'd used that as a lubricant for AR15s ...

 

[Castle Rock]

I was going to add a few examples of a more illuminated reticle and forgot. Here are two:

That’s exactly what you don’t want, it just washes out the image