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Vortex Viper PST FFP 1/10mil 4-16x review
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<blockquote data-quote="Niles Coyote" data-source="post: 404649" data-attributes="member: 11118"><p>I ordered my PST FFP 4-16x on June 16th and was a bit surprised to hear it would be at my door July 1st from Midway USA. Upon opening the package I found every thing present that should be minus a couple minor scratches to the sunshade, it came in contact with a turret during transport. </p><p></p><p>After running the turrets through their full range, I returned it to mechanical center and mounted it to a optics deprived 308 Remington Tactical. I leveled the scope to the base rail using the feeler gauge method and inspected the reticle. To my eye it did not appear to be canted. </p><p></p><p>Range day;</p><p>I spent several hours checking reticle spacing and adjustment and I am happy to report that, as best as I can tell, both are on the money. I did not see any reticle cant during movement through 15 mils.</p><p></p><p>View at 4x</p><p><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/003.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>View at 16x</p><p><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/002.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>How it looks from the drivers seat, Disregard the dots on the cardboard, but the tape measure dots are 5 mil and correct.</p><p><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/001.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was able to zero the rifle with no problems and install the zero stop shims with ease. I let the rifle cool for 30 minutes and check the resolution against an optical chart, some printed words of different text size and bullseye's of different size. </p><p><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/004-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I will add to this shortly with a Leupold vx3 tactical m3 and Nikon monarch gold that has beaten every Leupold mk4 and vx3 I've put against it. For now I had my 3.5-15x Nightforce with me to make comparisons. Well this is no Nightforce… But it is very good and I will be surprised if it isn't as good as the Leupold's I own. The biggest difference was in the brightness of the PST, it was washing out the black edge detail of my chart/targets as compared to the view through NF and because of that I could resolve the next size smaller lines, numbers and target with NF. But all in all the view through PST looks very good. </p><p></p><p>The only fault I can find with the PST is the turret resistance. The turrets adjust way too easy for my liking. The clicks are audible and positive by feel; they just need a little more resistance to them. </p><p></p><p>Pictures of the system set up</p><p><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/006.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/005.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Niles Coyote, post: 404649, member: 11118"] I ordered my PST FFP 4-16x on June 16th and was a bit surprised to hear it would be at my door July 1st from Midway USA. Upon opening the package I found every thing present that should be minus a couple minor scratches to the sunshade, it came in contact with a turret during transport. After running the turrets through their full range, I returned it to mechanical center and mounted it to a optics deprived 308 Remington Tactical. I leveled the scope to the base rail using the feeler gauge method and inspected the reticle. To my eye it did not appear to be canted. Range day; I spent several hours checking reticle spacing and adjustment and I am happy to report that, as best as I can tell, both are on the money. I did not see any reticle cant during movement through 15 mils. View at 4x [IMG]http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/003.jpg[/IMG] View at 16x [IMG]http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/002.jpg[/IMG] How it looks from the drivers seat, Disregard the dots on the cardboard, but the tape measure dots are 5 mil and correct. [IMG]http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/001.jpg[/IMG] I was able to zero the rifle with no problems and install the zero stop shims with ease. I let the rifle cool for 30 minutes and check the resolution against an optical chart, some printed words of different text size and bullseye’s of different size. [IMG]http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/004-1.jpg[/IMG] I will add to this shortly with a Leupold vx3 tactical m3 and Nikon monarch gold that has beaten every Leupold mk4 and vx3 I’ve put against it. For now I had my 3.5-15x Nightforce with me to make comparisons. Well this is no Nightforce… But it is very good and I will be surprised if it isn’t as good as the Leupold’s I own. The biggest difference was in the brightness of the PST, it was washing out the black edge detail of my chart/targets as compared to the view through NF and because of that I could resolve the next size smaller lines, numbers and target with NF. But all in all the view through PST looks very good. The only fault I can find with the PST is the turret resistance. The turrets adjust way too easy for my liking. The clicks are audible and positive by feel; they just need a little more resistance to them. Pictures of the system set up [IMG]http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/006.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/jpedzinski/005.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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