Rifle Scopes 2019 BigJimFish Review blog Meopta, Nikon, Zero Compromise, factory ammo, Sub $1k long range optics.

[BigJimFish]

Update 11-15-2019

Meopta Optika6 5-30x56 RD FFP Scope Review is up. Next up will be the Sightron S-TAC 4-20x50FFPZSIRMH, then the Athlon Midas TAC 5-25x56, and lastly the Nikon Black FX1000 6-24x50SF Matte IL FX-MRAD.

How about this for a through the scope picture of the Meopta Optika6 5-30x56 RD FFP Scope

 

[buckshotbarlow]

nice write up, thxs!

 

[kai24]

Very well done.
Thanks for your time and expertise!

 

[Baner]

Nice review of the Optika6.

Wonder how the hell it can be so cheap over there, it's priced at 1550$ over here in Sweden...
Pretty much the same as the Delta Stryker and Athlon Ares BTR, 300-400$ more than PST gen 2 5-25...

Pretty sure they don't give a crap about the european market, which is annoying because for 899$ id buy one directly for my 17hmr.

 

[BigJimFish]

Nice review of the Optika6.

Wonder how the hell it can be so cheap over there, it's priced at 1550$ over here in Sweden...
Pretty much the same as the Delta Stryker and Athlon Ares BTR, 300-400$ more than PST gen 2 5-25...

Pretty sure they don't give a crap about the European market, which is annoying because for 899$ id buy one directly for my 17hmr.

You can't just buy it from a U.S. retailer and ship it to Sweden? Maybe the online stores don't have an automated way to do it but I feel like you could probably use the phone number, get a human on the phone, and arrange something.

 

[kai24]

You can't just buy it from a U.S. retailer and ship it to Sweden? Maybe the online stores don't have an automated way to do it but I feel like you could probably use the phone number, get a human on the phone, and arrange something.

They've got to pay for that socialist paradise somehow---

 

[Baner]

You can't just buy it from a U.S. retailer and ship it to Sweden? Maybe the online stores don't have an automated way to do it but I feel like you could probably use the phone number, get a human on the phone, and arrange something.

Hard to do due to the weird trade restrictions on scopes and pretty much everything thing else related to guns and hunting the US has... the export permits are quite expensive too.

Been checking out some retailers in Germany, quite a bit cheaper(about 1100$). So might go that route. Going to check the prices during the black friday, see if i can find a decent deal.

 

[Slow Loris]

Thanks for the review. It was mentioned that the Optika6 5-30 scope really needs a sunshade. I don't see a specific sunshade for this scope by Meopta, will the Meostar 56mm ones work?

 

[BigJimFish]

Thanks for the review. It was mentioned that the Optika6 5-30 scope really needs a sunshade. I don't see a specific sunshade for this scope by Meopta, will the Meostar 56mm ones work?

Good call on that question. I would have assumed that it was the same sunshade but I asked and it will not fit. The Optika6 sunshades are in process but not yet available. I have updated the review itself to also reflect this and hopefully prevent a rash of returned 56mm MeoStar sunshades.

 

[Slow Loris]

Good call on that question. I would have assumed that it was the same sunshade but I asked and it will not fit. The Optika6 sunshades are in process but not yet available. I have updated the review itself to also reflect this and hopefully prevent a rash of returned 56mm MeoStar sunshades.

That's good to know. Perhaps they will have those sunshades by the time they get all those back ordered scopes made. I think I'll be needing that sunshade here in Utah. Thanks for doing the leg work on that question.

 

[BigJimFish]

Update 12-18-2019

First off, the Sightron S-TAC 4-20x50FFPZSIRMH review is up. Next up will be the Athlon Midas TAC 5-25x56. That one is actually done and sort of waiting in the hopper as I like to give new reviews a month or so with top billing before dropping the next thing. In light of the rumors of Nikon ceasing to sell rifle scopes, and because the one I was testing proved defective, was returned, and I don't think a replacement is forthcoming, it is unlikely that I will do a full review of the Nikon Black FX1000 6-24x50SF Matte IL FX-MRAD. I will do some sort of summary of how exactly it had issues during the testing in an upcoming post on this thread probably in the next few weeks.

Sightron S-Tac 4-20X50FFPZSIRMH on Kelbly Atlas Tactical with it's Favorite Lapua Ammo

 

[BigJimFish]

Update 1-14-2020

I have posted the Athlon Midas TAC 5-25x56mm rifle scope review. This will be the last update I do on this thread. I new year has come and I started the 2020 BigJimFish Review and Article blog thread today. Be sure to check out that thread as I have already laid out this years reviews schedule as it stands today including some new stuff.

Athlon Midas TAC 5-25x56 (background on Kelbly's Atlas rifle) with the Midas TAC 6-24x50 (foreground on Mesa Precision Arms Crux rifle)