Used an aimpoint red dot in Iraq wasn't a fan of it latter upgraded to a Leupold Mark IV cq t which I loved. Was a yellow reticle. Was great for close quarters and also mid to long range as it also applied magnification. I even preferred it to the ACOG. It is costly around 800-900 tried to "loose" the one I had in Iraq but ended up having to turn it in. If I ever get the spare funds will defiantly be my purchase next.

Originally posted by crgintx
You could outfit a 6 squads with Leapers scopes for the price of a single Zeiss!

Holy smoke I could pay a lot of bills for the cost of that one scope. I am thinking that thing better be plated in gold. I cant see ware that scope deserves that cost. Ime happy with my cheepy! for now. Once I am more use to it I may upgrade to some thing a little better quality.

If it's just a pure scope you're after, the classic Weaver K6 6x-38mm scope has the best quality glass you can get for under $200. It's a very popular scope with the Hunter Benchrest crowd who are about the nitpickiest group of shooters in the world. But some of them can keep 10 shots inside 0.10" at 200 yards and can hit 2 lb coffee cans at 600 yards or more with tiny 6mm BR cartridges that hold only 60% of the powder of a .308 Winchester.

I wouldn't choose any scope with more than 10x for a standard military cartridge, 6x is really enough magnification for even hot loaded .308 Winchester or .30-'06 out to 1000-1200 yards. Anything more than 10x and the heat monkeys aka mirage will make focusing on the target impossible. We get that at 50-55 yards in airgun field target much less 500 meters+ .

Well now its number two cheap scope from Ebay gone down the tubes. with what I will have to spend on shiping alone I could have gone down to the local sporting good store and bought a good quality scope.

The second scope seemed good when bore sighting but but every time I would shoot it, it would creep up and to the right. after 5 rounds it was so far off that even with 7 1/2 shot it was a complete miss. I tried to re-zero and after two clicks each the elevation and windage knobs became very hard to turn. I got out a penny and gave the windage knob one more click and the knob broke right off leaving only two small screws. I turned the scope back on and took another shot to see if it had gotten any closer. after the shot the once small green dot looked like a comet. I grabbed my flash light looked down the scope from the front and the center element was broke right at the adjustment points. Keep in mind this scope had been first sighted in with a bore sighted and wasn't difficult to turn then. I'm no stranger to zereoing a scope and I have bought some cheapies before but nothing like this, and never again. now I save my money and buy quality.

On a side note I am in contact with the ebay seller about not paying shipping back to him on a obviously defective scope.



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