Leupold German #1 reticle - 08/26/09
Thanks to you who posted on the #1 sometime back. I appreciate the info and advice.
Lupy put a #1 in a VX3 3-10 and I tried it out tonite. Had a pair of spotted fawns in what my wife and I call a lawn, so early on I spent some time pinpointing spots...but am mostly preoccupied with low light performance, so back to the drill.
Used a Conquest 3-9 #4 on a M-70 and a Lupy G4 3-9x40 to compare with. For low light venison ID--not reading charts.
Like Youper said, you have no trouble seeing the G1 posts...
The Zeiss 4 was my hands down favorite for low-light, as the posts are heavy enough to show well and close enough together to provide plenty of guidance after the fine crosshair is gone. The Lupy G4 posts are further apart. The #1 puts that bold center post right there--no guessing.
Like it matters, really. I would make the shot anyway with those three and so would everybody else that can shoot. And if it's a long ways...then it isn't really low light...:)
None the less, splitting hairs I like it a lot.
For my money this particular VX3 has better low light contrast than this particular Conquest. The color (when I could still see it) is a little richer in the VX3. The Conquest gives the appearance of being slightly brighter, however in very low light I'd give the VX3 with the #1 the edge both for the glass and for the reticle.
Haven't killed anything yet so prematurely FWIW--low light: the G1, then the Zeiss #4 and then a distant third the Lupy G4.
And the heavy duplex somewhere behind...but I'd consider a battery before that happens...:)
Lupy put a #1 in a VX3 3-10 and I tried it out tonite. Had a pair of spotted fawns in what my wife and I call a lawn, so early on I spent some time pinpointing spots...but am mostly preoccupied with low light performance, so back to the drill.
Used a Conquest 3-9 #4 on a M-70 and a Lupy G4 3-9x40 to compare with. For low light venison ID--not reading charts.
Like Youper said, you have no trouble seeing the G1 posts...
The Zeiss 4 was my hands down favorite for low-light, as the posts are heavy enough to show well and close enough together to provide plenty of guidance after the fine crosshair is gone. The Lupy G4 posts are further apart. The #1 puts that bold center post right there--no guessing.
Like it matters, really. I would make the shot anyway with those three and so would everybody else that can shoot. And if it's a long ways...then it isn't really low light...:)
None the less, splitting hairs I like it a lot.
For my money this particular VX3 has better low light contrast than this particular Conquest. The color (when I could still see it) is a little richer in the VX3. The Conquest gives the appearance of being slightly brighter, however in very low light I'd give the VX3 with the #1 the edge both for the glass and for the reticle.
Haven't killed anything yet so prematurely FWIW--low light: the G1, then the Zeiss #4 and then a distant third the Lupy G4.
And the heavy duplex somewhere behind...but I'd consider a battery before that happens...:)