Zeiss Conquest V4 riflescope-- better option for price?

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

I drop tested my V4. Thought it performed better than in Form's evaluation. Even in his eval the shifts were a lot less than other scopes and it's pretty abbreviated. Would like to see more long term use.

Sold it to a buddy when I moved to FFP though. He mounted it via the Form method, so I'm interested to see how it does going forward.

 

[06 SB]

You have used their warranty/customer service?

I tried once. I had a NXS 2.5-10 that quit tracking. It had been on a 243, 7mm-08 and a 6.5CM. I sent it in per their instructions. They denied the claim saying that the scope rings had been over torqued. I always mount my own scopes using quality rings and use a torque driver. There were VERY slight ring marks. I was done at that point. I have never had to send in a Zeiss or Swarovski scope.

 

[stooxie]

I had a V4 3-12x56 at one point, I remember it being insanely bright, almost on part with my Zeiss Victory HT and Leica Magnus. HOWEVER, the resolution and sharpness were not as good, which makes sense given the difference in glass quality.

To the OP's point, I think the V4s are a damn good scope, but they do need to be at the right price, i.e. in the 700-900 range. At list price they start to bump into other options.

(and, yes, I, too, got them all from Redhawk rifles!)

-Stooxie

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

****Admins, this may be potentially perceived the wrong way. Please remove if not allowed, but please read the entire blurb first****

So we stock the entire Zeiss lineup on our website. We do really-really well (for our size of company) selling the S3 line of scopes and a few of the pricy S5 optics. We have a lot of the V4 line of scopes on our shelves, but they seem to just collect dust for us. We do not have a large following of the hunter demographic where the V4's would apply, but we do have some crossover customers.

The issue that I'm trying to uncover is that we sell hunting optics in that price range to people all the time, just not any of the Conquest V4s. Are our customers dumb? (sorry any MKM customers, you aren't dumb and we love you!), Does our SEO just suck? Is there another brand selling a better product at that price point that I'm unaware of? (we are Swaro dealers as well with similar results in that price range).

We have been in the game long enough to see how the market swings and have watched product lines die when a new company comes a long and takes the wind out of their sale with either catchy marketing or attractive price with similar feature sets. That is part of my speculation, but I am unaware of who would be competing with this product line at said price point (again aside from Swaro).

**Just trying to gauge market interest (or lack of) from the crowd of people that I would assume know the best. I have gleamed awesome info from you Rokslider's in the past and hoping to hear some unbiased comments. I use a Zeiss optic on my comp rifle and wear a Zeiss hat almost every day, so I am biased, but my experience with rifles/scopes is more specialized in a different genre.

Have a great Turkey days guys, and hopefully an even better afternoon hunt afterwards!

I was a zeiss fan boy until I owned a v6 and v4 that wouldn't track or hold zero.
Also the v4 is awful in low light