Thoughts on Scope 4-16x50 Hawke Sidewinder
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Bandit Country
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This. If you're new to stalking and CF rifle, keep it simple.
Apologies for the 
exchange between me and yes.
Back to your question.
If you are just using it for deer stalking.
Then
Leupold VX-3HD 3.5-10x40 IR (30mm) CDS-ZL Rifle Scope is a good scope for low light transmission about £900.
The Hawke 4-16 sidewinder will do alright for stalking. I used it without any issues and that was a older model. I believe about £550 to £600.
If you have the cash the FRONTIER 30 SF 2.5-15X50 is about £700 and is a bit of step up.
If you are looking to do targets you may wish for something with magnification but then you also get more weight
exchange between me and yes.Back to your question.
If you are just using it for deer stalking.
Then
Leupold VX-3HD 3.5-10x40 IR (30mm) CDS-ZL Rifle Scope is a good scope for low light transmission about £900.
The Hawke 4-16 sidewinder will do alright for stalking. I used it without any issues and that was a older model. I believe about £550 to £600.
If you have the cash the FRONTIER 30 SF 2.5-15X50 is about £700 and is a bit of step up.
If you are looking to do targets you may wish for something with magnification but then you also get more weight
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FISH BOY
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Have 4 Hawke sidewinders - great for the money, work ace with add on NV, but personally wouldn’t put them on anything bigger than a rimfire.
As above, look for a second hand Leopold, Meopta or S&B fixed which will give you way better light transmission for stalking in the twilight hours.
As above, look for a second hand Leopold, Meopta or S&B fixed which will give you way better light transmission for stalking in the twilight hours.
No Idea myself never seen one.
But here is a review of 50mm objective
Gear Review: Meopta MeoSport R 3-15x50 RD SFP Rifle Scope - The Truth About Guns
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Whatever you get check warranty, as all brands have the occasional dud, and make sure easy to return and get exchange or money back.No Idea myself never seen one.
But here is a review of 50mm objective
There are other review's online!Gear Review: Meopta MeoSport R 3-15x50 RD SFP Rifle Scope - The Truth About Guns
◀Previous Post Next Post▶ Meopta began in 1933 as a Czechoslovakian-based company that, since 1960, manufactures its products in the US as well. Producing everything from precision medical and scientific instrumentation to military weapon systems, and even digital cinematic projectors...
Heard mixed reviews of meopta but never owned one so can't say myself.
Leupolds have a great warrantee, it just takes several months before you get your scope back again , and it is often not right even then. I have given up with them now. I have found that it's only the old Leuoplds that never need sending back, fingers crossed.
I hear you, but unless I got extremely lucky this time things are different. Please prove me wrong !
ChesterP
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An oft repeated truism wrt rifle scopes: Only a rich man can afford cheap glass. Been there. got the teeshirt. The exception may be fixed power scopes where you can buy a good used European scope for relatively little money.
Optically some cheap chinese made things may well be (just) acceptable but I can guaranteed that mechanically they will be inferior to a properly engineered, quality scope and few have the fully coated optics front and back nor the assembly precision. I've taken a few apart, including a Hawke Endurance riflescope, when it became faulty and was appalled at what I found in the elevation turret. Cheap and nasty doesn't come close. Since then, I've stuck to older Leupolds, Bushnell tactical elites (great scopes), or European glass and none of those has ever let me down, and have been far more reliable in terms of dialling precision. You get what you pay for with scopes. If a cheap scope came with the quality of any of the above in the mechanicals as well as the optics, well, it simply wouldn't be a cheap scope unless bought used. You'll end up buying cheap and wishing longer term you hadn't then good luck with moving it on without losing 50% or more of what you paid for it.
Optically some cheap chinese made things may well be (just) acceptable but I can guaranteed that mechanically they will be inferior to a properly engineered, quality scope and few have the fully coated optics front and back nor the assembly precision. I've taken a few apart, including a Hawke Endurance riflescope, when it became faulty and was appalled at what I found in the elevation turret. Cheap and nasty doesn't come close. Since then, I've stuck to older Leupolds, Bushnell tactical elites (great scopes), or European glass and none of those has ever let me down, and have been far more reliable in terms of dialling precision. You get what you pay for with scopes. If a cheap scope came with the quality of any of the above in the mechanicals as well as the optics, well, it simply wouldn't be a cheap scope unless bought used. You'll end up buying cheap and wishing longer term you hadn't then good luck with moving it on without losing 50% or more of what you paid for it.
These are worth a look:-
rmacleod.co.uk
GPO SPECTRA 4X 4-16X50i G4i DROP
With a 30 mm center tube, PASSIONTrack turrets that can be zeroed without tools and a first-class field of view at 100m, you will succeed in target acquisition with the SPECTRA 4-16x50i even at full magnification and difficult lighting conditions. Of course, this riflescope is also equipped with...
rmacleod.co.uk
Or a secondhand Delta Titanium 2.5-15x56. There was one in the classifieds a bit ago and they are head and shoulders better in poor light than a Hawke.
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