Thread: New vortex offering

My mate had one, we took it to the farm last week - if he sees this he may comment.

I thought the lightweight hunter was sounding pretty awesome and would be my next scope for the reasons above, weight, glass, capped turrets etc. I wasn't super impressed, I could be out of touch with what hype makes a "good" scope but I didn't think it offered much over the two much cheaper scopes we had there also apart from magnification and the dial ability.
The final blow was I suggested his scope was skew, turned out the reticle was starting to rotate. Replaced under their uber warranty but hey for $1600 should that really happen?
Anyway he now has gone to a 30mm Viper Mil/Mil FFP.
From what I have read the glass is not up with NF,VX6 or the cheaper Viper.
I also didn't really fancy the reticle options with them.

I would not want one personally after looking through it but then the drama that goes with some of these vortex products adds to it.

I am not anti Vortex and nearly pulled the trigger on the HD LH for myself, but could not help but feel that the awesome warranty would be of no help to my mate if he had actually driven all the way south from up here in the north to chase Tahr and this had happened (that is what he was getting ready for).

my 2C