Recent content by ToddM

Yeah, it seems odd but it's probably just due to the difference in travel per turn in the MOA and MRAD versions. The MOA version is only 25 MOA per turn (or ~7.3 MRAD), so 2 turns of the RevStop limiter on the MOA is ~50 MOA, and max elevation is 68 MOA, which is ~20 MIl. Since the MRAD...

Something in the elevation specs is definitely odd. The 5-25 PST 2 in MOA lists 70 MOA of elevation and 20 MRAD However the Viper HD 5-25, lists: 47 MOA with revstop and 68 MOA without 18.9 MRAD with revstop and 20 MRAD without. (incidentally 47 MOA and 18.9 MRAD is the # they list for the...

Interesting, with so many competitors doing more of a 3-18/4-20x and 5-30/6-36x I'm surprised they stayed with the lower zoom slots. Not that 25x isn't enough but clearly in the marketplace more power sells these days, and they are now behind the curve for max power compared to the...

Heh so it's not really a PST Gen 3 then, just another new scope, well played

Another factor is that ammo quality, like most things the last 3-4 years seems to have fallen off. Good lots are still really good but on average ammo variation in factory offerings has increased recently. I have quite a bit of older ammo across several calibers and in almost every case it...

Hard to say, there's already a lot of competition in the $1000-$1400 market range, and with the pricing of the Strike Eagle now they'd have to be well over $1000 street. Be interesting to see where it falls, frankly I was not impressed with the Strike Eagle at all, esp. at an $800 street...

You can also order 15rd CZ factory mags now, but the only place I've seen them is from overseas, but the price really isn't bad even with shipping. The only thing I'd say about the 15rd factory mags is while they've functioned perfectly, they are pretty long compared to say the 10rd factory...

I always find that amusing.......is it really a "closeout" when you're taking backorders for new stock to be filled at a later date? Semantics on some level sure, but word choice really does matter.

100% unfounded speculation but I wonder if Burris is dumping the SCR 2 in the Pro to just have the SCR 1/4. That's about the 4th place I've seen that has the SCR 2 model hundreds cheaper than the SCR 2 1/4 version in the same scope this week in stores that were holding them all in the $1900...

Yep if you think the .357 is bad, the 329PD 44 mag is even worse, its' the most painful handgun I've fired bar none, 500 S&W I had was a pussy cat compared to it. It's all about the weight. With 44 special loads it was not bad, but with the rubber grips and full house 44 mags I've had more...

Obviously any company can go away at any time without the general public knowing in advance, and it doesn't take a buy out/layoffs to see a companies quality to go crap. That said right now with the rumors around what could or could not happen to Bushnell and the changing of ownership, layoffs...

Pretty much, take a good smaller company with a good established reputation, then cut costs and quality as much as possible and expand the product line into as many new areas as possible, reap max profits, and then dump it when the consumer figures it out and sales tank.

Vortex isn't the only one, Burris clearly increased effective prices in the last 2-3 weeks. Used to be you could get a XTR III for $925 and the XTR Pro in the $1450 range if you shopped around. Now all those same stores are running $1250 for the XTR III and $1950 more for the XTR Pro...

Yeah mine is a newer production as well from the Philippines, seems like there may just be a lot of sample to sample variation. I'll have to see if I stumble across any locally in stock to play with and compare.

Which is kind of my point, the copy of the XTR 3 I have, I'd say turret feel is noticeable below any of my PST 2's and it's not like I think the pST 2 is great in this area in the first place. The XTR 3 clicks are solid feeling and loud, but it's very mushy between clicks and you can feel the...