I’m getting frustrated by the lack of “Traditional” hunting scopes out there and the lack of power ranges 1x-5x
Leupold I’m looking at you! Does everything have to have a monster tube and a turret on top of it? Also you bumped out all the fantastic middle ground offerings. Everything is close to $1k because it has HD on it! How about running some a line of hunting scopes in that vx3 range? Even if it was only every so often?
Other brands too, vortex had it nailed with the razor hd lh line that they quickly made tacticool…now it’s like everything else…
I want simple optic for some DG calibers and just cannot find a simple scope like the good ol m8 of Vari -x iii
FRUSTRATION RANT
HOPE THEY READ IT!
Within the last year I picked up a couple of Sightron SI 1.75-5's. Trim little 1" scopes that fit well and dont look out of place on old school levers and woods rifles.
Carried one around some this fall on a 7600 carbine 35 Whelen that I use for tracking; the short, light Whelen has made one scope go wonky.
Overall, I've had great luck with many different Kenko sourced scopes. While all of my previous experiences with them have been with Japanese variants, the SI scopes in reference are built in the Philippines. Not sure what mechanical differences exist between scopes from different manufacturing facilities, but what I can report so far is that the little SI's adjusted as they should and are holding zero.
