Best $500 or less scope for cricket
For $500 or less what would you put on a cricket…. I now steve at Wild West varries AEON pretty cheap but not sure if they are any good.
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MAMBA LITE 4-16X44 SCB # 37382 – $309 with free shipping.
Wow thanks for the epic responses coda and knife 🙂 that surely cleared it up for me. A friend just gave me his old 56mm leapers SWAT and 44mm version. Both have the same magnification. The only diff is the objective lens
I’ll see which I like better and fit better on my matador but after reading that I’m almost positive I’m going to go with the tactical hawke. Plus I kind of like the small wheels look. And a “smaller” “tactical” scope makes more sense for a standard bullpup tghats considered a compact bguj, perfect to pair with the compact scope.
With that said who wants to hook me up on a cheap hawke 6.5-20 tac 🙂
Check Vortex Viper PST 1-4X24- http://www.mountsplus.com/AR-15_Accessories/AR-15_Scope_Rings/115-V-PST-14ST-A.html
Yep, a “good” one. They to this day don’t make a “Great one”! American assembled Japanese glass. Good, but in no way superior! Just the price is elevated to the superior realm. 😆
My Leupold’s don’t quite do as well in low light like my other high-end scopes of similar configuration. I would not buy a recent vintage Leupy at this point. My largest local gun shop told me a few years back that the return rate has really picked up on the newer Leupolds. I guess you have to spend above $2000 now to get a good one??? 🙄
True enough SeCoda. I have also seen it stated made dia, coatings, lens quality and internal reflection control.
Many scope makers list the exit pupil. Which is nothing more than a mathematical formula for Objective Dia. and Power. This is VERY misleading. This discounts just about everything that makes a Bright Scope a Bright Scope. Most times they tell the old saw about how an exit pupil dia. of 3.5mm is all the human eye can handle. Some times they say an adult over 40-45 years of age cannot handle any more. In the charts they call this the retaliative brightness index.
If this formula worked for true light gathering, ALL scopes with equal size objective lens and like power would have the exact same brightness. And we all know that this is an outright lie. If it weren’t, a Hawke and a Schmit and Bender would have the exact same brightness level, and preform the exact same in low light. Oh Hell No! Not even close! 👿
To add salt to the injury, They forget that not all shooters are over 40 yr. old. But the biggie is that the exit pupil has virtually NOTHING to do with how much light exits the scope. It’s marketing BS based on an almost useless formula. And to make it worse, the formula doesn’t work in practice even for what it really does tell. Which is just how much of an image your eye can see. Or how critical eye placement behind the scope is.
A 44 mm objective will paralax easier, and be MUCH lighter than an other wise equal scope with a 50mm objective. Much less a 56mm objective.
The larger tubes for the bodys of the scopes, is for a little added strength, but mostly to give room for added windage and elevation adjustments. It doesn’t effect light gathering what so ever. But Lupy and other brands have been misleading their customers for years.
Lupu would not build a 30 mm tube scope for years. Said there was no advantage in them. After years of loosing out to the European makers, they have finally decided to build them. Wile telling their customers that it gives more light. Not until they were virtually forced to make tactical scopes did Lupy finally out what the hell the larger tubes were for. LOL!!! :rofl:
We got the added bonus of FINALLY getting adjustments from Lupy that actually clicked into place instead of the way old tech, friction ring. (That just loved to move with heavy recoil, and couldn’t shoot the “Box” on it’s best day.
Lupy has been fucking the american scope buyer and selling us sub-par products for decades. 👿 But this is for another story. 😆
Knife
From Leupold web site.
Objective Lens Diameter
Obviously, exit pupil depends on magnification and objective lens diameter. If magnification is increased, exit pupil will decrease, unless the objective lens diameter increases proportionally. 50mm-objective riflescopes will deliver a larger exit pupil and a brighter image in poor light than a similarly powered scope with a smaller objective. Of course, there are tradeoffs with a 50mm scope: higher mounting, greater weight and bulk, and a higher line of sight in relation to the bore line. All of these factors must be considered when deciding on a scope for your style of shooting. In most cases, a scope that delivers a 3.5-5mm exit pupil at a comfortable magnification will be more than adequate for most hunts.
Something else to remember is that contrary to common belief, a larger objective lens does not increase the field of view of a riflescope. It only increases the amount of light entering the scope, and, in the case of scopes using slightly less capable components, it will increase the “sweet spot” at the optical center of the lens, making images appear sharper and more crisp in the center of the field of view.
Can someone who’s had both compsre the pros and cons of each? Would appreciate that…
So what’s the exact difference btwn a hawke sidewinder 6-24x44mm tactical or the 56mm version? I obviously know its a bigger field of view but the scopes are the same price and weigh the same. Why would anyone get the 44mm?
Can someone who’s had both compsre the pros and cons of each? Would appreciate that…
I spoke to a guy a while back that uses Hawke Sidewinder Tactical 6.5-20 1/2 MD for steel silhouette competition out to 1250 yards and says several on his shooting team do. (7mm 08 Shilen) I thought that was pretty cool for $500.
I haven’t purchased mine yet, but so far I’ve made up my mind on a Bushnell Trophy xlt 3-12 x 56mm.
It should be enough power for any 100 yd shots, large enough for low lighting shots and it has a lighted mil dot, not the whole reticule, the best in class of light gathering @ 91%.
Everything I want in a scope, $255 on Amazon.
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Hawke tactical 30 in 6.5-20
I love that SW30 6.5 x 24 Hawke too but I tried a 4-16 x 40 varmint series and it was clearly a 200$ scope and not a 500$ scope.
A friend turned me on to the Bushnell legend HD and I am very impressed with it as a less than 200$ scope !!!!
SWFA fixed 10x 12x 16x or 20x
Or
Hawke tactical 30 in 6.5-20
bushnell 4200 6-24×40
I went to a Sightmark 4-16X44mm side focus.
It was not expensive, had excellent reviews and just a couple hundred bucks.
My personal experience with anything over 16X is a loss of “crispness”, “brightness”, and “sharpness” of the image. Just not worth the extra cost and unless you do a lot of bench or distance shooting, the extra power goes to waste.
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Isn’t the 6-5-20 tac heavier than the larger objective one?