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Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
Am I nuts? VX6hd 3-18×50 vs. G7 NXS 5.5-22
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<blockquote data-quote="bearcat2" data-source="post: 1759140" data-attributes="member: 18832"><p>I've never owned a Nightforce even though they are built an hour from me and I've had employees tell me they can get me a great deal on one. Really nice scope, but they are a boat anchor! My long range rifle is heavy, never actually weighed it but I figure around 12-13 pounds with scope and bipod. I don't really want to add most of a pound to that. I run a Leupold Mk IV 4.5-14 and would like to compare it one to a Nightforce at low light. I always like all the Nightforces I've looked through or shot (as long as I didn't have to pack them) but I had a client with one last year and his buddy had a bottom line Leupold 3x9x40 with one inch tube. We were comparing at first light and when I could see plain to see horns through my Stiener Nighthunter binoculars both of them would have been really lucky to see an animal. While the NIghtforce was better at light gathering it was just a very slight noticeable difference between it and the cheap Leupold while my binoculars were like night and day. I think my Mk IV gathers light much better than that, which shocked me because I always thought the Nightforce would be at least as good if not better. But I've never actually gotten to compare them side by side at low light.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bearcat2, post: 1759140, member: 18832"] I've never owned a Nightforce even though they are built an hour from me and I've had employees tell me they can get me a great deal on one. Really nice scope, but they are a boat anchor! My long range rifle is heavy, never actually weighed it but I figure around 12-13 pounds with scope and bipod. I don't really want to add most of a pound to that. I run a Leupold Mk IV 4.5-14 and would like to compare it one to a Nightforce at low light. I always like all the Nightforces I've looked through or shot (as long as I didn't have to pack them) but I had a client with one last year and his buddy had a bottom line Leupold 3x9x40 with one inch tube. We were comparing at first light and when I could see plain to see horns through my Stiener Nighthunter binoculars both of them would have been really lucky to see an animal. While the NIghtforce was better at light gathering it was just a very slight noticeable difference between it and the cheap Leupold while my binoculars were like night and day. I think my Mk IV gathers light much better than that, which shocked me because I always thought the Nightforce would be at least as good if not better. But I've never actually gotten to compare them side by side at low light. [/QUOTE]
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