Since my regular glass-store is selling the Delta Stryker HD at a pretty good dicount I could not refuse. Its the older generation with non locking turrets and the DLR-1 reticle, and I figured it would suit me just fine.
Right as it is, it is bolted to my FX Impact PCP rifle, with a Spuhr ISMS mount. When the competitions starts up again after all the Corona crap, I plan to move to scope over to my TRG22. I have had a few high end scopes like Hensoldt, Razor G2, Schmidt PM2 and a few others and looked though and fingerbanged a whole lot more of them.
Anyways, this will be more of a first impressions type of deal, take it for what it is.
Out of the box, The scope comes with some tools, a "cat tail", a battery, a bikini lenscover and a sun shade. Pretty much what you are used to seeing in the box. I have added a pair of Vortex Defendor lens covers to it, since the picture above was taken.
Fit and feel, The scope feels good in general. The finish is excellent. The turrets are a bit mushy, not terrible but kind of on par with Nightforce NXS, and no where near the awesomeness of S&B. The parallax wheel is stiff as hell out of the box, smooth, but still extremely stiff. It has loosened up a bit after I cranked it back and forth a lot of times. I am sure it will get even better with time. The included "cat tail" for the magnification ring is a nice touch. The elevation turrets markings seems to be a smidge of center, or maybe its just me needing new glasses. The zerostop is super easy to set.
Glass, The glass is good. Very good. As you can guess I have only shot with it out to 100 meters, but I have looked through it out to about 300 meters on my local range. There is very good contrast, good definition, but a pretty shallow depth of field, so proper parallax adjustment is key. I hardly get any CA at all, and to my eyes, the glass is well above the Vortex Razor G2 4.5-27x56 and not that far behind a Schmidt 5-25x56 PM2.
Reticle, Very well thought out and designed. I feel that the later versions of the LRD guys reticles are less intuitive, but thats just the oppinion of one.
Time will tell. But for the price I payed, its an awesome scope for sure. I plan to run this for at least a year or two. We will se how it works out.
This was my out of the box review of the Delta Stryker. I posted it in the other thread about Delta scopes earlier this year.
Since then, I have mounted it on my TRG22 and have been both shooting and compeating as much as possible for the rest of the season.
I have been dialing back and forth shooting targets between 100-1000 meters and it has been flawless through out.
The parallax dial is a bit strange compared to other scopes Ive had, as most know it has a broad adjustment up to 250-300 meters and then it quickly goes to infinity. But what I found out on the biggest competition I went to this year was that I went thru the whole day pretty much without tuching the parallax dial at all, most of the day it was set just below the infinity mark and it worked great on targets from 240 meters out to 1000. At the 1000 meter target I had no problems spotting my first shot (low and left in the dirt) and made corrections accoringly wich then gave me 4/6 hits at that station.
This scope stays with me, and I would buy another if I needed one.