03-10-2022, 04:04 PM
Boy, those new ones sure have a lower retail price than the older ones. Is this a case of a company going to an offshore supplier for cheaper manufacturing and then actually passing on some of the savings to the customer?? That would be rare.
I bought one of the 3.3-18x scopes after all. Very nice glass indeed. Illumination would be nice, I'll admit. Not having it probably saves a few ounces though, and I will only use this scope during daylight hours, probably out in a desert somewhere.
I will say, when I got the scope it had the stiffest controls I've ever felt. LOL Especially the magnification ring. And the texture on the knobs is pretty unforgiving. "Cheese grader" is a description I've read, and it's not wrong. The other turrets, parallax, windage, elevation, have all loosened up a bit and are fine to use. But magnification really needs a cat-tail of some sort in order to be user-friendly. I ordered on of Burris' own cat-tails for this scope. Retail price on those is around $60, but Midway had them last week for just $36, which put in in the ballpark of its competitors, so I grabbed one.
Hopefully the new model will have a lighter touch on magnification.
I bought one of the 3.3-18x scopes after all. Very nice glass indeed. Illumination would be nice, I'll admit. Not having it probably saves a few ounces though, and I will only use this scope during daylight hours, probably out in a desert somewhere.
I will say, when I got the scope it had the stiffest controls I've ever felt. LOL Especially the magnification ring. And the texture on the knobs is pretty unforgiving. "Cheese grader" is a description I've read, and it's not wrong. The other turrets, parallax, windage, elevation, have all loosened up a bit and are fine to use. But magnification really needs a cat-tail of some sort in order to be user-friendly. I ordered on of Burris' own cat-tails for this scope. Retail price on those is around $60, but Midway had them last week for just $36, which put in in the ballpark of its competitors, so I grabbed one.
Hopefully the new model will have a lighter touch on magnification.