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Have you tried the vortex LHT 4.5-22x50? If so any thoughts?

The Trijicon stuff I’ve dialed with did it well.

Thanks for the heads up. I checked out your ad, and see that the scope you have is moa. I would prefer the mil in the Helos.

Black Friday swfa 3-15.

+1

About to buy another. Don't see a better scope around in that price range and a good smidge above.


Yep. Suggest post a WTB in the classifieds here.

GAP still does the 4.5-18 LRHS2. Last one I bought was $939 IIRC.

The only thing stick dials are them homo phone sex numbers. LOL

I as well. Thank you for looking. Bought them on a whim and decided to stay Mil across the board. Still for the MOA man, it’s a good deal.

Your point is fair enough though I can’t say that I 100% agree.

Just last month I had a deer at last light that I could clearly see through my Meopta 15x56 at 50 yards, in timber. For the life of me I couldn’t even pick up its outline in my SS 6x42 mil-quad and certainly couldn’t have made a responsible shot. Good thing it was a spike and I had no desire to shoot it anyhow. I can think of 3-4 other such instances. They’re awesome mechanically but the glass is sub par in low light and wasn’t “good enough” for me.

Can you see the reticles on lower power without illumination at low light with the Midas or Ares? The thin reticle has been my hang up.

Post some pictures of game taken using said optics.

It'll be fun.

Zeiss Hd5

I can certainly respect your analysis. Are you going to swap out the SWFA? If so, what are you going with? My main goal in that statement was to try to make it clear that my emphasis is on the internals. Seems like some people are more interested in the glass than anything else.(Not suggesting you are one of those guys) "Doesn't track, isn't repeatable and barely holds zero, but damn, it has great glass."----- That's not what I'm interested in. I, too, have passed up shots on animals a couple of times that I could pick up with my binoculars, but not the scope. Life is full of tradeoffs.

Edit to add that the Meopta scope I mentioned in my original post has glass as good as any I've personally seen in a scope. As it was getting dark this evening I was watching several deer at the far end of my pond, about 250 yards, against a mixed pine and hardwood backdrop. I could check for antlers with my binoculars for a couple of minutes longer than I could with the scope.

I am not sure, for right now at least.
The vast majority of my shots happen in broad daylight and light transmission normally isn't an issue. SWFA's reliability and utility make up a lot of that lost ground.

I may try a few brands/models mentioned in this thread and if I find a hemi that still gets the good gas mileage, I would consider swapping that SWFA out but as of right now I am not aware of a better option that exists for what my overall needs are. The S&B PMII is another that I plan to look into.

Pictures of game? Who has time for that silliness when there's fish pictures to be taken. He seems to do a very good job of the staged rainbow tape photos. Recent pics of dead animals? LOLOLOLOLOL

Do you have some pictures of bucks you've killed in the past 5 years? Animals you've shot long range? Anything?

FWIW, we are offering the Athlon Helos BTR GEN2 2-12x42 for an insanely low price during our Black Friday week sale, however, as members here all you need to do is call us, 516-217-1000, as many of you already have to get that pricing now

I have bagged some Boone and Crockett class sock puppets.

But my real cred is in my staged pics.

If you're looking for a good scope and pricing I wouldn't be passing this up... I'll be ordering one of these in the next couple days....

You sir are correct and very repeatable.

Open Box... $479...

Going to try one of these on the 93Jimbo build...

Thanks Stick, SR and Doug...