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**KuznehikVasaN** · 11-08-2010, 02:10 AM

Optima make decent but good priced scopes.

But like the lads have said, you get what you pay for.

Two of my friends, wanted scopes for hunting foxes (not something I entirely agree with), anyway, one bought a £2000 Night Scope, Gen 2 and the other bought a Leupold scope, similar price, something like a 4-24 x 56, the Leupold was actually much better than the night scope, He could see further, identify targets further and shoot for longer too.

The only thing that might have made the night scope better, was a laser/IR illuminator.

I owned an Optima 3x - 9x X 56 scope and got a custom glass reticle made for it, with windage
dots and lines etc, owned the same scope for about 5 years, it was both robust and allowed me to clearly see long after dusk, especially with a small head torch, to cast some light forwards.

Not sure if the cheaper scopes still have them, but at one stage they used to make cheaper scopes with wire reticles, so if you dropped the rifle the "scope hairs" would usually snap, its much better to get a scope which has a reticle that is etched on glass, its less likely to break.

11-08-2010, 02:10 AM	#13
KuznehikVasaN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	Optima make decent but good priced scopes. But like the lads have said, you get what you pay for. Two of my friends, wanted scopes for hunting foxes (not something I entirely agree with), anyway, one bought a £2000 Night Scope, Gen 2 and the other bought a Leupold scope, similar price, something like a 4-24 x 56, the Leupold was actually much better than the night scope, He could see further, identify targets further and shoot for longer too. The only thing that might have made the night scope better, was a laser/IR illuminator. I owned an Optima 3x - 9x X 56 scope and got a custom glass reticle made for it, with windage dots and lines etc, owned the same scope for about 5 years, it was both robust and allowed me to clearly see long after dusk, especially with a small head torch, to cast some light forwards. Not sure if the cheaper scopes still have them, but at one stage they used to make cheaper scopes with wire reticles, so if you dropped the rifle the "scope hairs" would usually snap, its much better to get a scope which has a reticle that is etched on glass, its less likely to break.
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