Thread: Worth getting cheap spotter?

It's not about available magnification, it's about optic quality. The cheap spotters fall off the cliff optically as soon as you wind them up.
My old Kowa TSN-1 with a 25x fixed lens would see 30 cal bullet holes, with the light in the right position, on the 300yd fullbore targets. At 100yds I can watch very small insects crawl across my target.

I bought a Sightron SII 4-16 just for 22rf 50yd - 100yds shooting and I couldn't see bullet holes clearly at 100yds on 16x, and only just at 50yds! Most disappointing as I have a Sightron SIII which is great. The SII got returned and replaced with a superb Weaver 4-16 x 44 EBX. Of course the Vista Outdoors wackers shut Weaver down or I would have bought a couple more of them.