I recently got me one of these to pair up with my RWS 350. It has a pretty destructive
recoil that these scopes are reputed to be able to withstand by places like Straight Shooters (who's word I trust)
Anyhow, I ended up buying it from PA purely because they had the "other" stuff I wanted at a better price.
The scope's packaging is pretty good and it comes with a 3" sun shade and flip-up scope covers.
It has the following features taken directly from their ad at PA:
"Tru-Hunter Turrets
Windage and elevation housing features machine plate controlled seals, to eliminate risk of water ingress and fogging.
Tru-Hunter Turrets are manufactured in brass with easy to grip rings making adjustments simple even while wearing gloves.
Positive and precise 1/4 MOA for accurate and consistent shooting.
Wide Field of View with Tactical Mil-Dot Reticle
Wide field of view and edge to edge lens clarity allow for clearly picking up quarry on the peripheral edge of the sight picture.
The Precise Tactical Mil-Dot reticle allows the shooter to estimate ranges and enhance accuracy.
Power Illuminated Reticle with Red/Green Dual Illumination
Adjustable intensity of the illuminated reticle gives optimum reticle clarity in variable light conditions, increasing accuracy in daylight
and twilight environments. "
Sounds good?
Fist impressions:
The Scope is solid (read slightly heavy) and looks well made, however upon closer inspection it is a bit rough around the
edges. For example the threads that the Objective lens screws in on and that the sun shade would share are chewed up
quite a bit causing the sun shade not to screw in / up snugly without a bit of force.
The windage adjuster was also jammed solid. I had to back off the lock-down cover till it almost came off, before it "let go"
with a loud click and started turning.
Other than that it seems to work fine. the view through the scope can seem a tad foggy / hazy at times, but focusing it
produces a good clear image. It is more fussy about finding the "correct" relief to get a good whole view through the
eye piece. The FOV is nice and wide though.
The Reticle with Red/Green Dual Illumination... does just that, not bad either.
My take on this scope is that it's not bad (still have to see if it survives the RWS350's recoil) for the price.
The "damaged" threads left a bad first impression though. I tried to take a pic for you guys but its black on black
and would not come out.. sorry
However I have up till now always used BSA rifle / AR and non AR rated scopes on my springers and have not
had one die on me yet (fingers crossed) so I think that in future I'll stick with BSA, their QA seems to be better.
and the view through their scopes a bit cleaner / crisper.
Just a personal thing I guess.
