Bought a Vortex scope today

[Smoothrj]

Somebody posted the sale at Midway USA but I couldn't find the post. They have Vortex Diamondback Tactical scopes 4-16×40 on sale for 199 bucks. Man you can't beat that with a 2×4. I am thinking of buying another one just because it's so dang cheap. That price at that magnification with a lifetime warranty is a perfect hunting / plinking scope. I am going to use one to replace the lower power Bushnell on my AR-10 until I save enough for real good unit for that rifle. I think I am going to try the Arken EP-5 model. A couple friends up here have them and they swear by those scopes. They have the 5-25×50 and love them. Anyway the Vortex will stand in until I move to the Arken and give it a whirl.

I have the 4x16x44 tactical….great scope …..tracks well while dialing…I replaced with the Strike Eagle 5x25

 

[BIKER13]

some things will never be good enough or expensive enough for some people.

 

[SE7702]

Somebody posted the sale at Midway USA but I couldn't find the post. They have Vortex Diamondback Tactical scopes 4-16×40 on sale for 199 bucks. Man you can't beat that with a 2×4. I am thinking of buying another one just because it's so dang cheap. That price at that magnification with a lifetime warranty is a perfect hunting / plinking scope. I am going to use one to replace the lower power Bushnell on my AR-10 until I save enough for real good unit for that rifle. I think I am going to try the Arken EP-5 model. A couple friends up here have them and they swear by those scopes. They have the 5-25×50 and love them. Anyway the Vortex will stand in until I move to the Arken and give it a whirl.

Thanks for the heads up I bought two of them.

 

[BigMike]

If you aren't a serious competitive shooter, the Gen 2 Viper PST in 3-15 is very very hard to beat, especially when you can grab a used one in the $500 to $600 dollar range. The glass is clear, the adjustments are good. Will it fit every bill, no, but it wont cost $3000 plus. The lesser Vortex lines suffer in glass clarity, IME

And not all warranties are created equal. There is a difference between a 1-2 week turn around with either a repaired unit or a new unit, vs 8-12 weeks just to get an email letting you know what is wrong with what you sent in.

 

[BigMike]

You're a joke. Continue please

He called you an idiot......that's funny.........

 

[Sleepr71]

Vortex are good,affordable, plinking scopes to me,esp. if you use the BDC reticles in them. The dials feel “mushy” to me,but I’m a set it & leave it alone shooter..and they work on certain(short range) rifles of mine. They are nowhere near the Japanese,German,or high end American made scopes. Not in clarity,not in the “eyebox”,not in repeatability,and not in durability. I will NEVER understand why somebody would buy a “Razor” from the Vortex line..as they cost as much as scopes that provide much better performance,in every aspect.! If you are dialing most of your shots….you’re gonna want SWFA,NF,Trijicon,Steiner,etc..and forget the budget. .just buy the right tool for the job

 

[greg vess]

Thanks for the heads up I bought two of them.

You can do a lot worse than a Vortex Diamondback Tactical for $199 bucks. They'll make a good plinking scope no matter what. I've heard people beat Bushnell up one street and and down the other. But I've have two Bushnell AR optic scopes that have never lost their zero and one shoots under half MOA every time I take it to the range and I've had that thing for a good going on 7 years. Yeah it's heavy and it's not as clear as a Zeiss or Swarovski but it gets the job done for what I do. I wouldn't take it into combat or wouldn't rely on it for a showdown and Somalia but for a trip to the range it's done well every time I've went out. I paid almost $300 each for both those scopes and I've never had a problem with either one of them. I know they're not great scopes but they're clear enough for me and do what I want them to do. I've tested the tracking on them and they do just fine. With that said, with today's technology and all the fancy equipment we have these days you would think that you could get a halfway decent scope and not have to pay one, two, three thousand dollars for it.
Every time I get the same response. A couple of the real, real serious shooters recommend scopes that I just can't put that much money into or they don't recommend anything at all. All the people that have Scopes that are in my price range are too scared to speak up because they're going to get flogged up up one post and down the other. I think I'm going to give the Arken ep-5 a chance and just see what it does. Jim Harmmer that does that backfire blog says his only problem with Arken is there too heavy. I'm not going to be lugging it around the woods, it's going to go from the back of my truck to the bench. It's not like I'm betting the farm on it. If it does great then that is great if it doesn't well I can afford to go out and try another $500 scope. At some point I will get a serious scope for a couple of my firearms that would be my go-to arms in a s h t f situation but more than likely those are going to be a red dot of some sort with an etched reticle and a fixed magnification. I'm still in the mode of buying guns and getting my collection built up to where I want it. When I get that done then I'll go out and I'll spend a good bid on a couple of good high dollar scopes. But if I got $1,500 or $2,000 burning a hole in my pocket you can bet that's going to go on a rifle of some sort. But I'm still in the gun buying mode and most of the time open sites is just as fun to shoot as a scope is. As much as I hated to say that I'm going to have to say that's the conclusion I've drawn from this whole thread. I am not competition shooter or a die-hard hunter that sinks his money into one firearm. I just like buying guns and having them in the safe. If I can get good group out of a scope at 3 or 400 yards then I'm happy just as long as I'm not looking through what appears to be complete acid etched reticle. I enjoy building firearms, upgrading rifled and handguns and working with my hands more than I do shooting if the truth be known. However, I do like to shoot and I'm just looking for lesser expensive options for what mostly works out to be going to the range maybe three or four times every 6 months and shooting maybe 20 rounds each out of several different guns. I will take advantage of the serious shooters recommendations at some point but I'm just not ready to do that right now. Heck we use stuff made in China for things a lot more important than putting a bullet on target and don't think twice about it and it happens every time we walk into a different room. I'm not saying everything to come from China is good but a lot of things that we just don't even think about are from China but we use them anyway a 95% of the time they do exactly what we want them to do.

I do appreciate all the responses and I will use that information at some point but right now I just have no need for a $2,000 scope. It would be wasted for no more than I shoot.

 

[Bypass]

Maybe I ought to test the one before buying a second. Todd my childhood friend has one on a 6 BMR and that gun shoots lights out. But I guess there is a delicious apple in every bushel.

Unless you use turrets which honestly I don't I mostly use Kentucky windage or the mil dots to shoot. I'm not a long range guy. It should be fine if you just use it for hunting and combat or target shooting.

 

[SE7702]

You can do a lot worse than a Vortex Diamondback Tactical for $199 bucks. They'll make a good plinking scope no matter what. I've heard people beat Bushnell up one street and and down the other. But I've have two Bushnell AR optic scopes that have never lost their zero and one shoots under half MOA every time I take it to the range and I've had that thing for a good going on 7 years. Yeah it's heavy and it's not as clear as a Zeiss or Swarovski but it gets the job done for what I do. I wouldn't take it into combat or wouldn't rely on it for a showdown and Somalia but for a trip to the range it's done well every time I've went out. I paid almost $300 each for both those scopes and I've never had a problem with either one of them. I know they're not great scopes but they're clear enough for me and do what I want them to do. I've tested the tracking on them and they do just fine. With that said, with today's technology and all the fancy equipment we have these days you would think that you could get a halfway decent scope and not have to pay one, two, three thousand dollars for it.
Every time I get the same response. A couple of the real, real serious shooters recommend scopes that I just can't put that much money into or they don't recommend anything at all. All the people that have Scopes that are in my price range are too scared to speak up because they're going to get flogged up up one post and down the other. I think I'm going to give the Arken ep-5 a chance and just see what it does. Jim Harmmer that does that backfire blog says his only problem with Arken is there too heavy. I'm not going to be lugging it around the woods, it's going to go from the back of my truck to the bench. It's not like I'm betting the farm on it. If it does great then that is great if it doesn't well I can afford to go out and try another $500 scope. At some point I will get a serious scope for a couple of my firearms that would be my go-to arms in a s h t f situation but more than likely those are going to be a red dot of some sort with an etched reticle and a fixed magnification. I'm still in the mode of buying guns and getting my collection built up to where I want it. When I get that done then I'll go out and I'll spend a good bid on a couple of good high dollar scopes. But if I got $1,500 or $2,000 burning a hole in my pocket you can bet that's going to go on a rifle of some sort. But I'm still in the gun buying mode and most of the time open sites is just as fun to shoot as a scope is. As much as I hated to say that I'm going to have to say that's the conclusion I've drawn from this whole thread. I am not competition shooter or a die-hard hunter that sinks his money into one firearm. I just like buying guns and having them in the safe. If I can get good group out of a scope at 3 or 400 yards then I'm happy just as long as I'm not looking through what appears to be complete acid etched reticle. I enjoy building firearms, upgrading rifled and handguns and working with my hands more than I do shooting if the truth be known. However, I do like to shoot and I'm just looking for lesser expensive options for what mostly works out to be going to the range maybe three or four times every 6 months and shooting maybe 20 rounds each out of several different guns. I will take advantage of the serious shooters recommendations at some point but I'm just not ready to do that right now. Heck we use stuff made in China for things a lot more important than putting a bullet on target and don't think twice about it and it happens every time we walk into a different room. I'm not saying everything to come from China is good but a lot of things that we just don't even think about are from China but we use them anyway a 95% of the time they do exactly what we want them to do.

I do appreciate all the responses and I will use that information at some point but right now I just have no need for a $2,000 scope. It would be wasted for no more than I shoot.

I’m pretty much the same. I like nice guns and collecting, I’m definitely not a long range shooter but I do want my rifles to be sub moa.