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VX6HD 1-6x24 vs Trijicon Credo 1-8x28
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<blockquote data-quote="comfisherman" data-source="post: 2808354" data-attributes="member: 8394"><p>Boy. This is a subject near and dear to my heart in the quest for the perfect hunting scope.</p><p></p><p>It will ramble a bit and for that I apologize.</p><p></p><p>My hunting is also dense timber or brush with big cuts my animals are either bow distance or past 300 yards. Not much in between. Have tried most the lpvo scopes and more than a few of the mpvo.</p><p></p><p>1-8 nighforce is red dot fast on low power but the reticle isn't my favorite at the range especially at longer range, dot is rather large and makes precise aiming less than stellar. Afield it doesn't seem as bad, but range time load work it gets swapped out. Eye position and tunneling is workable above 6x but this could have been a 1-7 and wouldn't hurt my feelings.</p><p></p><p>My trijicon sample was the first iteration landed just under 27 oz, the reticle was some thick cross hairs, it was a decent layout but was perceptibly heavy on my light rifle and was swapped out for a burris xtr 2 1-8 that was a few oz lighter and didn't get fidgety till a little over 7x. Both were around 1k and out before the nx8. Now having had all three and I'd skip the trijicon and burris and have the nighforce for few hundred dollars more and only 17 oz. Yes its center dot is kinda thick but it's only a slight optical compromise over the chunkier brethren.</p><p></p><p>The vx 6 I have is the fire dot spr with the inverted 3/4 donut. It's an sfp scope and lands under a pound. Its not an apple to orange comparison, but being sfp it's not a perfect direct comparison either. Reticle is easy to pick up and it's less finicky across the full zoom range, I no longer shoot at range with it as it's now relegated to late spring early fall duty on my oft carried rimfire. At current leupold vx-6hd prices I'm not sure I'd even consider it, while I'd like a finer dot in the donught on the nf, for the slightly higher price of the nx8.... I'd go for it over the leupold. Leupold has continued to get more and more proud of its stuff without a commensurate increase in performance. </p><p></p><p>One thing that's worth mentioning. My first foray into a lpvo was a mid August hunt, lots of light then in these northern latitudes. About the first week of October the short coming of a 20 or 24 objective starts to be more and more of an issue. By early November even a modest 40x really seems to pop compared to a much higher tier 1x lpvo. If you're not likely to hunt a lot of dusk and dawn wit the setup they are awesome, but the criticism of dark image at low light is valid. So much so my mid Oct to March hunts get some form of mpvo, I'd love to se the 2-12 athlon type package be picked up by a nf level mfg.... just so long as they don't pull a leupold mark 5....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="comfisherman, post: 2808354, member: 8394"] Boy. This is a subject near and dear to my heart in the quest for the perfect hunting scope. It will ramble a bit and for that I apologize. My hunting is also dense timber or brush with big cuts my animals are either bow distance or past 300 yards. Not much in between. Have tried most the lpvo scopes and more than a few of the mpvo. 1-8 nighforce is red dot fast on low power but the reticle isn't my favorite at the range especially at longer range, dot is rather large and makes precise aiming less than stellar. Afield it doesn't seem as bad, but range time load work it gets swapped out. Eye position and tunneling is workable above 6x but this could have been a 1-7 and wouldn't hurt my feelings. My trijicon sample was the first iteration landed just under 27 oz, the reticle was some thick cross hairs, it was a decent layout but was perceptibly heavy on my light rifle and was swapped out for a burris xtr 2 1-8 that was a few oz lighter and didn't get fidgety till a little over 7x. Both were around 1k and out before the nx8. Now having had all three and I'd skip the trijicon and burris and have the nighforce for few hundred dollars more and only 17 oz. Yes its center dot is kinda thick but it's only a slight optical compromise over the chunkier brethren. The vx 6 I have is the fire dot spr with the inverted 3/4 donut. It's an sfp scope and lands under a pound. Its not an apple to orange comparison, but being sfp it's not a perfect direct comparison either. Reticle is easy to pick up and it's less finicky across the full zoom range, I no longer shoot at range with it as it's now relegated to late spring early fall duty on my oft carried rimfire. At current leupold vx-6hd prices I'm not sure I'd even consider it, while I'd like a finer dot in the donught on the nf, for the slightly higher price of the nx8.... I'd go for it over the leupold. Leupold has continued to get more and more proud of its stuff without a commensurate increase in performance. One thing that's worth mentioning. My first foray into a lpvo was a mid August hunt, lots of light then in these northern latitudes. About the first week of October the short coming of a 20 or 24 objective starts to be more and more of an issue. By early November even a modest 40x really seems to pop compared to a much higher tier 1x lpvo. If you're not likely to hunt a lot of dusk and dawn wit the setup they are awesome, but the criticism of dark image at low light is valid. So much so my mid Oct to March hunts get some form of mpvo, I'd love to se the 2-12 athlon type package be picked up by a nf level mfg.... just so long as they don't pull a leupold mark 5.... [/QUOTE]
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