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So yesterday I spent a bit of time looking through the Hawke glass and comparing it to the Swaro and the other big boys.

I’ve always been a glass snob and I still haven’t fully made my decision, today I will.

Obviously I can test them in low light, but I have to say I’m exceptionally impressed with the Hawke. I looked at vortex and for a similar scope, Hawke was streets ahead in terms of clarity and ease of eye relief.
 
old keeper said:
It's clearly very satisfying to have a top-of-the-range scope on your rifle. Throughout my life, I've used Leupold, Swarovski and Hawke scopes. I enjoyed having the Swaro Z6i, but did it result in many more low-light kills? No.
Much of scope choice comes down to what you can afford. I've always thought Hawke scopes offered excellent value for money, have an excellent back-up service and do pretty much everything you need a scope to do.

Personally. I found being able to shoot a fallow at very last light, especially if they were on the fringes of woodland, could be a real pain, especially if they made it to the wood. Finding, extracting and gralloching in the dark was, for me, never worth the hassle!
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Wise words.

To the OP, I purchased 2 Hawkes, both developed faults pretty quickly, i will say Hawke customer service was excellent, but I needed reliability.
You can pick up 6x42 or 8x56 Schmidt and Benders 2nd hand off here as lots of people switching to HIK etc
Ive done the same, but kept the glass.
 
The tubes collapsed, first time I fitted the scope, returned to the scope, they torqued down the replacement to specifications and it happened again.
Scope worked but it made side parallax difficult to turn
 
Tris88 said:
Can I ask what the faults were? Trying to avoid faults really.
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Any scope can develop a problem. How a maker deals with any problem is key.

I have Swaro, Zeiss, and Element scopes. And, previously, Hawke.

zambezi

Thread 'Hawke scope developed internal fault - maker will not repair, nor replace'

I own riflescopes from Swarovski [x2], Element, Zeiss, and Hawke[x3].

The Hawke models I own are Eclipse, Vantage and Sidewinder. The first and last are performing like champs. The Eclipse has been on the air rifle since the 90s and the Sidewinder has been on my .223 since 2015.

The Vantage was bought around 2015 from new and sat variously on my 10/22 and Anschutz .22LRs. It has seen very little action, mostly shooting competitions in clement weather [I favour the .17hmr for vermin].

Mysteriously the Anni+Vantage stopped grouping around October. I tried different ammo, different shooters...
 
old keeper said:
Personally. I found being able to shoot a fallow at very last light, especially if they were on the fringes of woodland, could be a real pain, especially if they made it to the wood. Finding, extracting and gralloching in the dark was, for me, never worth the hassle!
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A man after my old heart👌

Good scopes are one of those things that personally I believe is a must, I have personally never liked Hawke, I’ve always gone for second hand top flight glass.

But recently in the last 3 years I now wear glasses full time and I did treat myself for a new variable Schmidt Bender that I am very happy with.
 
old keeper said:
Personally. I found being able to shoot a fallow at very last light, especially if they were on the fringes of woodland, could be a real pain, especially if they made it to the wood. Finding, extracting and gralloching in the dark was, for me, never worth the hassle!
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A little head torch would be good 👍🏻
 
Tris88 said:
So yesterday I spent a bit of time looking through the Hawke glass and comparing it to the Swaro and the other big boys.

I’ve always been a glass snob and I still haven’t fully made my decision, today I will.

Obviously I can test them in low light, but I have to say I’m exceptionally impressed with the Hawke. I looked at vortex and for a similar scope, Hawke was streets ahead in terms of clarity and ease of eye relief.
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Which hawkes?
 
Tris88 said:
The endurance range, specifically 1.7-10x44
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Nice. Is that range still in production?

I like look of the vantage HD range from hawke.

Tbh I'm finding the Wülf scopes really good for the money. But they obviously have a long way to go to get the long term service reputation of the likes of Hawke
 
I have a soft spot for Hawke as their customer care is just so flipping good! I inherited a rifle with an ancient old model Sidewinder on it that my pal had thoroughly abused over the years on his foxing rig. There was a tiny external scratch on the objective lens so I contacted them and they invited me to send it in. Very quick response and as a gesture of goodwill even though I was not the original buyer, they sent out the current top of the range FFP Sidewinder, as it was too old to repair. It is a fantastic optic. I have gone down the road of buying new and second hand German, Austrian and Czech glass, but have moved them all on as what I get from Hawke (and Vortex) is a really capable bit of glass (I use them for air rifle, varminting, deer stalking and long range target) and the security that if I smash one on the hill I’ll have a new one on the rifle within a week. Have quite a few from Vantage and Airmax to Sidewinder and Frontier. The one inch tube Frontier 3-15 x 44 SF is a marvel, gutted they’ve discontinued the lighter tube models in that range.
 
I’ve become aware of German Precision Optics of late. Set up by someone who left one of the big scope firms. I had a good look through them at the show on Sunday and was very impressed with their build quality and even more so with the price.
I know one of the large sellers had one model up recently for sub £300. Can’t go wrong with that.
I urge you to do some research on them before buying Hawke.

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