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Pac-Nor will slum a A-bolt?! The horror! I hope they keep them segregated from the real rifles so's we don't end up with weird halfbreeds. J/K. I kind of like A-bolts. Couple of them in our elk camp. Sounds like a great setup. I'm all hung up on whether to try my next rebarrel myself or not (there's a small mountain of lathe tooling in the way) and so, don't currently have anything in the works. And everything I've got scoped up-- from Vx3's through Conquests and my line Swaro AV-- is working well so I can't really justify a VX6 But I want one, and if past history is a predictor, that means I'll own one! 
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RD, what you missed was that some of their toughest scopes, as far as impact resisitance goes, are some of their Mk.4 scopes, not their so called M4 scopes. Some of which are tested at 1500 g's, 5000 times. This is done to insure that those scopes suffer no broken parts, including reticles. They use electroform reticles in those scopes which can use them because they hold up even better. The Mk.4 scopes can't use the electroform designs because they can't precisely place things like Mil-dots, and the hash marks of the TMT designs with the electroform process.
And that's the difference as they explained it to me. E I think a VX-6 is in my future but I never have liked the wire reticles, I agree with liv2hunt that the etched reticles are bolder and darker.
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No question etched are better. Leupold uses them in their top of the line scopes. They use them in their tactical scopes because they're stronger too.
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I just mounted up my two VX6s and wondered if it was normal to see the barrel of each respective gun at 2 power? One is mounted on a cva apex with high deadnutz rings and the other is mounted on an a bolt with leupold medium rings. Is this just an issue with having it set on 2 power? I don't see it when I turn it to 3 power.
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The 2-7x Burris on my Whelen does the same thing.
This is a shooting forum, there is no place here for logic.
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Mine does the same thing at 2x.
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...as do mine, but I'm not one of those professional, hard charging, hunters that use a fixed 6 power.
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the fire-dot model has an etched duplex
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Finally got to test a VX-6 2-12x42 on my night chart. It rated an 8, which is as high as any scope has ever tested, which wasn't surprising since the VX-7 2.5-10x also tested 8.
Now I just have to put it on a hard-kicking rifle and see how the adjustments work after a few dozen rounds!
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Mule Deer,
Thanks for the info.
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Finally got to test a VX-6 2-12x42 on my night chart. It rated an 8, which is as high as any scope has ever tested, which wasn't surprising since the VX-7 2.5-10x also tested 8.
Now I just have to put it on a hard-kicking rifle and see how the adjustments work after a few dozen rounds! Thanks for that info John. What reticle did that scope come with ? How would the reticle work in low light (assuming it wasn't a Fire Dot)
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“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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...as do mine, but I'm not one of those professional, hard charging, hunters that use a fixed 6 power. Good grief....you're starting to sound like someone else on here.Which ain't good. 
Last edited by BobinNH; 05/11/12.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Just ordered a new VX-6 in 1.5x6 yesterday for my new Win 70 Safari 375 H&H. I hope to wring it out a little this weekend. I'll also spend some time in the back yard scoping the tree line bout 200 yards from my back deck & the local deer herd that usually shows there right at dusk just to see how it compares.
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The exit pupil's only going to be 4mm at 6x, so it might not be all that bright.
I just got in one of the 1-6x24's a few days ago, and might run the night-chart test on it, despite the small objective.
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"Only Christ is the fullness of God's revelation."
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...as do mine, but I'm not one of those professional, hard charging, hunters that use a fixed 6 power. Good grief....you're starting to sound like someone else on here.Which ain't good. Just trying to keep the Optics section light and friendly Bob............
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The exit pupil's only going to be 4mm at 6x, so it might not be all that bright.
I just got in one of the 1-6x24's a few days ago, and might run the night-chart test on it, despite the small objective. Mule Deer, Please let us know how it does on your chart. I'm open to recommendations for a good, bright, lower power variable. As stated the VX-6 will be going on my 375 H&H for use on African game and big bears so I really don't expect to be chasing em at dark. If I do use it as such I have a Zeiss Diavari 2.5x10x50 I'll pop on in Tally QDs. 163bc
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Finally got to test a VX-6 2-12x42 on my night chart. It rated an 8, which is as high as any scope has ever tested, which wasn't surprising since the VX-7 2.5-10x also tested 8.
Now I just have to put it on a hard-kicking rifle and see how the adjustments work after a few dozen rounds! Thanks for the info MD. Glad to know my eyes haven't been fooling me on this scope. I just spent a couple of days at the deer lease with the Tikka/VX6. The adjustments were spot on (again, as this is the 7th or 8th "session" I've had with it) out to 825 yards and every where in between. It will be interesting to see how it holds up.
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Couldn't stand it any longer. Just ordered a 2-12x duplex.
Now to have the CDS dial made.
I noticed that the Custom Shop can adjust the parallax correction
for a small fee. Any thoughts on having that changed from the basic 150yd. setting?
Thanks.
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