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Is The 5.5~22 Nightforce my only choice?
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<blockquote data-quote="HAMMERHAND" data-source="post: 713302" data-attributes="member: 33066"><p>I am still looking to replace the scope on my rifle. Currently shooting a zeiss 4.5-14 with rapid Z reticle. My problem is the reticle subtension with the zeiss rapid-z series (too thick). I am completely sold on everything about the NF EXCEPT the glass. For a $2,000 scope you should be getting glass that is approaching the quality of Zeiss, S&B, or Swarovski. Out of the two dozen NF scopes I have looked through side by side with these other MFG's at low light outside the stores there really is no comparison by my eye, the NF is significantly more "grey". The crispness certainly is there, but the color definition (which is important for picking out parts of animals against matching terrain) simply is not what it is in those other scopes, and the low light capability is lacking compared to them as well. I do a lot of low light hunting, and I couldn't be certain that the NF would fill the bill. Being that the NF is the standard for this type of application, I hunger for opinions of those that have gone outside this box in the direction of Sightron SIII, S&B, March, or other scope suggestions. It very well may be that I will end up with a NF, but it will be after a bunch of deliberation certainly as $2k is a big investment for me. I do believe that a high quality scope could be made with the swaro type glass in a magnification of 3-30x with fine reticle subtension in the MOA scale with over 100 MOA travel for well under $2K. While the NF certainly is an impressive tool in its own right it is just my opinion by directly comparing them side by side in dark conditions with others that it falls well short of many others in the glass department.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HAMMERHAND, post: 713302, member: 33066"] I am still looking to replace the scope on my rifle. Currently shooting a zeiss 4.5-14 with rapid Z reticle. My problem is the reticle subtension with the zeiss rapid-z series (too thick). I am completely sold on everything about the NF EXCEPT the glass. For a $2,000 scope you should be getting glass that is approaching the quality of Zeiss, S&B, or Swarovski. Out of the two dozen NF scopes I have looked through side by side with these other MFG's at low light outside the stores there really is no comparison by my eye, the NF is significantly more "grey". The crispness certainly is there, but the color definition (which is important for picking out parts of animals against matching terrain) simply is not what it is in those other scopes, and the low light capability is lacking compared to them as well. I do a lot of low light hunting, and I couldn't be certain that the NF would fill the bill. Being that the NF is the standard for this type of application, I hunger for opinions of those that have gone outside this box in the direction of Sightron SIII, S&B, March, or other scope suggestions. It very well may be that I will end up with a NF, but it will be after a bunch of deliberation certainly as $2k is a big investment for me. I do believe that a high quality scope could be made with the swaro type glass in a magnification of 3-30x with fine reticle subtension in the MOA scale with over 100 MOA travel for well under $2K. While the NF certainly is an impressive tool in its own right it is just my opinion by directly comparing them side by side in dark conditions with others that it falls well short of many others in the glass department. [/QUOTE]
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