My own experience with Hawke scopes in limited to one example but that one bit of experience has made me very suspicious of them and their quality, or rather should I say lack of quality
, I brought a variable illuminated one and to say it was a real piece of junk is being nice about it. I also at the same time brought a Chinese Tasco illuminated 3-0x40E as I wanted to try the illuminated reticle out. Both were total crap. Luckily I was able to sell them for use on air guns by folks who didn't know what a reasonable scope should be and it seems had been brainwashed by the shooting media to think they had brought good scopes
. They sold for a lot less than I paid for them and neither wanted to know they were crappy scopes ................................ seems you can't help some people.
Looking at the Hawke stand as the Shooting show it became clear that this was their target market and how they can sleep at night asking the prices for their rubbish is beyond me.
The search for a reasonable priced scope which is not so poorly made that bits wobble and adjustments feel like mush continues and in this search I tried a Nikko Sterling 4.5-14x50AO Gold Crown that too went down the raod for a loss after trying it out and even returning it to the importers as faulty only to be told that a fast focus eye piece should wobble up/down and side to side
and allow split groups on target when fitted to a .308. It was ok on a rimfire if you jammed the eye piece into teh tube with a thump from the heel of the hand. The field of view on these cheap scopes was also a limiting factor I found. Trying to shoot rabbits that hopped towards you or away meant constantly refocusing due tot eh very poor field of view. After a couple of months of trying it it had to go.
The Simmons Aetec Master Series has nice optics but the Chines build quality is suspect, yes I tried this one too and after failign to be able to zero a newly acquired used rifle swopped the scope and voila it zeroed.. The brand new scope was faulty. it replacement proved to e faulty too but with a different issue to was returned as well. The Simmon Pro Hunter Master Series is not optically as nice to my eyes but it has not developed the issues of the dearer Aetec .................................... as yet even if the adjustment scale trasfer/sticker did come off the windage and blow away to be lost on the field
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Which is why I now hunt out older used scopes of known manufacture like the Lisenfeld scopes, Tasco Titan, or the old Simmon Competition models if I can find they at a decent price. At least they are either Japanese of European make and not subject to dubious Chinese quality control.
still carp, sadly they all lack good glass in all their scope ranges,and the price of the so called top stuff is way to much for furred up bog roll tubes.
. Mate got another Endurance scope and we were suspicious it was moving, plus the turrets kept falling of. Tried to tighten the grub screws and they were soft as butter. I have changed mine to Zeiss, I know it's tempting to buy cheap, and you may be lucky but more likely not. 
