Tract Optics....

[jrsolocam]

Anyone have any info on them? Started by a couple of Nikon guys.....good review in "Outdoor Life"...

 

[clambdin]

Good thread over on the fire about these I was surprised by the outdoor life review myself !

 

[WRO]

Good thread over on the fire about these I was surprised by the outdoor life review myself !

Outdoor like voted the zeiss terras the binocular of the year a few years back, which maybe the worst binoculars ever made.

 

[scottyboy]

Outdoor like voted the zeiss terras the binocular of the year a few years back, which maybe the worst binoculars ever made.

Funny. True. Agreed! i do not have any first hand experience with Tract, but as WRO states, ever since the Terra disaster i take everything OL says with a grain of salt..

 

[Old Ornery]

Good thread over on the fire about these I was surprised by the outdoor life review myself !

It is a good thread. I wonder how good the scopes are, as Tract states they use HT glass on their top line scopes.

 

[Rich Coyle]

Outdoor Life is nothing more than a paid prostitute for products. I and another guy shot shot a Kimber .22 singleshot with a 36X Leupold for a gun writer. The rifle alone cost $1,200 back then. The best I could do with about a dozen brands of ammo, including a few target brands, was about 1 3/8" on the 50 yard target. When the article came out I thought the other guy did some mighty fine shooting. The article had groups like .375", .400", .470", etc. He thought I did all the good shooting so I asked the author about it. He said, and I quote because I will never forget it, "I must have left off the 1". Well I owed him a favor anyway."

I wrote an article many years ago about a 7mm-.300 Weatherby. The editor had me shooting groups with bullets I never heard of.

Since then I don't believe any of the articles in any of the magazines; with the exception of Varmint Hunter and Precision Shooting. But then, both of them are gone.

 

[Old Ornery]

Outdoor Life is nothing more than a paid prostitute for products. I and another guy shot shot a Kimber .22 singleshot with a 36X Leupold for a gun writer. The rifle alone cost $1,200 back then. The best I could do with about a dozen brands of ammo, including a few target brands, was about 1 3/8" on the 50 yard target. When the article came out I thought the other guy did some mighty fine shooting. The article had groups like .375", .400", .470", etc. He thought I did all the good shooting so I asked the author about it. He said, and I quote because I will never forget it, "I must have left off the 1". Well I owed him a favor anyway."

I wrote an article many years ago about a 7mm-.300 Weatherby. The editor had me shooting groups with bullets I never heard of.

Since then I don't believe any of the articles in any of the magazines; with the exception of Varmint Hunter and Precision Shooting. But then, both of them are gone.

I agree that the way OL picks the optics and how they rate the optics is very questionable.

 

[wdenike]

You guys are aware of the ole saying. THOSE THAT KNOW, DO. THOSE THAT DON'T WRITE BOOKS, MAGAZINES ARTICLES, AND TEACH. NUFF SAID!!



Take care, Willie

 

[venatic]

You guys are aware of the ole saying. THOSE THAT KNOW, DO. THOSE THAT DON'T WRITE BOOKS, MAGAZINES ARTICLES, AND TEACH. NUFF SAID!!



Take care, Willie

You left off "and post online"

 

[jacksonriver]

I have a 3-15x42 t-plex toric. I am very pleased with the scope. When I called tract with questions I talked to one of the owners. That doesn't happen with many companies in my experience anyways. I compared the scope to some vx-3's and conquest's. I'm no expert but to my eyes I thought the toric was noticeably better then either scope. The eye relief is great and the scope comes with two elevation turrets. My only dislike is the color.