Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Where do Sightron scopes fall in the hierarchy of scopes?

I agree and would rate them as an OK scope. I have an SII on my muzzleloader. For what I am using it for, it is fine but not sure I'd want it on my primary hunting rifle. I have had it for 5-6 years and it has never moved, been in some nasty weather and been fine, and is generally clear.

I have an S2, 3-9x42 on my TC Omega. I bought it new several years back on closeout for $135 OTD. It has been a very good scope. I personally like the eye relief and eye box on mine. To me it seems very comparable to the older VX II's. Works great for my uses. For the money I have in mine, I don't think I could replace it for the same price.

My s2 3-9 has seen some rough duty on an old Ruger 30-06 dragged around by my son and nephew. It just keeps working without any adjustment required. Think of it as a boring Vx2 with a little less bright image, a little smaller eye box and probably better adjustments. The rimfire version on my 10/22 is just as boring it holds zero year in and year out. My friend who has his on a 30-06 is disappointed that it is so boring and just works - not a flashy scope at all.

i used a S2 6X HBR with fine cross hair on my 22 for years with out any issue. as stated above by others, tracking was great, never lost its zero and clarity was very good. i was using that rifle for range shooting only and have since refitted it with a smaller lighter scope for hunting/walking in the woods by my son.

I heard that their service department is lacking. I shoot with an online dealer, and he dropped them due to service. I have 4 Big Sky 6-24 silhouette specials, and they are excellent. A few years ago they were a bargain, but the price for that particular model drastically increased.

I had a problem with one, and they gave me the single worst case of service that I've ever experienced.

I have the exact same scope and have the opposite experience. Maybe eyes, maybe QC? Who knows. My eyes arent even the same day to day.

I like a nice eye box and find no issue with the SII 3-9. I admit mine lives on the low power of that range.

The SII are a heck of a lot better than the SI, which I didnt like. When the sightrons go on sale they are a terrific value IMO.

While its not a scope, my sightron 8x32 binos have been the best bang for the buck of nearly ANY product i have purchased in recent memory. Outstanding for the price.

I have only one Sightron. The SIII 8-32X56LRMOA. We have been beating on it for 3 years now. Other than the turrets turning a little too easy it has been flawless and rivals my 8.5-25 VX3 LRT scopes for image quality. Very pleasing to look through for extended time with no distortion and great color. It's on a long range custom Stiller Tac 338 Lapua built by Straight Shooter Supply and it is a tracking fiend. We have been mean to it. The knobs are scuffed to bright silver and the tube has some good scuffs but no dents. Two elk hunts and two dead elk at very long range both at the very last moments of legal shooting time. No interest in shooting game other than squirrels that far away again. Took a day and a half to get the one out. I think optically and tracking wise it walks all over the Viper PST line in about the same price range. I think the new VX6 will top it for sure but at a bit higher price.

IMO the Big Skys view is as good as anybody's and their tracking is supposedly there also...

Of the brands you mention here, I would absolutely, unequivocally, trust Sightron to track better than the rest.

I shoot with 2 guys who use 8-32x56 Sightron. Another guy has the 60X model. Myself and the president of our club run 8-32x56 NF NXS. I have looked through both SxS.

I would say the Sightron compares very favorably to the NXS for the price. Is it as good overall? No. Is it as tough? Probably not. But given the results obtained in multiple matches, a couple of the guys have done very well with them. I'm talking lots of rounds, over a period of years without a hitch. They seem to be repeatable and the glass certainly isn't bad. Given the price point of these 32X scopes, I can't come up with a high powered variable I would consider better for the same price. Or something that I would trust more if forced to buy something other than what I already use. I would have to consider them a bargain, much like my Weaver micro-trac target scopes. Granted, my experience with them is somewhat limited.

The SS I had tracked well also, but had "issues". But it would still also get consideration for the price.

That said, for "serious" shooting, the only scopes I currently run are fixed power Mark 4s, NF NXS, and fixed power micro-trac Weavers. All are consistently repeatable.

Other than a rimfire scope, I have no experience with Sightron hunting scopes.

Just my 2¢......

Well when I'm in Limpoppo on a $15k hunt or in Montana on a $6500 guided trophy Mule deer hunt I won't have a Sightron with me.

They are certainly equal to the very best of the Philipine optics of a few years back.

I would agree with this. I have a Nightforce 8-32x56 NXS MOAR and a Sightron 8-32x56 LRMOA so I can compare them side by side. The glass in the Nightforce is slightly better but not by a whole lot, the Sightron's is certainly decent. They both track perfectly so no complaints on either there. The Nightforce is probably tougher but I haven't broken either so can't say for sure. It does feel better built. I'm not particularly fond of sightron's method of zeroing the turrets but it's adequate. The Nightforce reticle is illuminated and the Sightron isn't, but I never turn on the illumination anyway. The big difference is the lack of a zero stop on the Sightron which I really wish it had. All turret scopes should come with a zero stop standard in my opinion.

I like the Nightforce better but it cost 2.5X as much as the Sightron. I don't like it 2.5X as much though.

A while back, I brought two rifles to our 600 yard benchrest match. One had a 12-42 nxs, one had a 10-50 SIII. Resolving 6mm bullet holes at 600 yards on a cloudy day is a pretty good test. Its just a sample of 2 scopes, but the SIII was just BARELY behind the NXS. And I bought these two when the SIII 10-50 was $700 new and the NXS was $1500 USED!

Comparing Sightron to Nightforce. This forum is the gift that keeps on giving. Sightron are junk. I had two, killed them both in short order. Maybe their target scopes are better...

Which one did you have?

You had 2, but neither were the scopes in said comparisons (or even target scopes). Yet you run your mouth at people who actually did side by side comparisons.

This coming from the guy who recently asked "why are people so hung up on recoil lugs? All it does is keep an action from moving."

You can't make this $hit up, as they say.

Once again proving, this place is full of more dumfuuks, that are too stupid to realize they are dumbfuuks, than any on the web.

YOU are the gift that keeps on giving................

I am going to guess the lower end S1, because they're all the same, right?

the people that diss the upper end sightrons have likely never had one..low information parrots would be my guess, but hey , no offense intended to those who've had a one time bad experience with one..

I agree.

I have no reason to tout Sightron. Don't even own one. But I can't lie about what I have seen them do..........

I will say it again. Big Sky's and S3's are best bang for buck going in scopes IMO....