Re: Horus Hawk questions
It's not a target type fine reticle, but it's not thick by any means. To me it's about as thick as a run of the mill duplex, maybe a little thinner. It's a FFP, so the center part of the reticle is hard to pick up on 3X, but it does have thick stadia on the left and right. Here's a crappy pick through the reticle at a 14" X 24" cardboard target at 285 yards:
The picture doesn't do the glass justice, as the camera used is getting returned to Best Buy for a second time for focus issues. HV scopes are made by Hakko Optics. The glass is nice, clear to about 1mm - 2mm from the edges on 12X; obviously not S&B or Zeiss, but I could easily read .308 shot holes at this range on the pictured target. The two orange dots on there are 3" dots. Tracking has been perfect as well, with me doing a lot of shooting this past summer working on load development with a couple of different loads using lots of different powders and primers. It returns to zero every time.
To answer your other question, I bought this scope so that I could shoot out to 800+ without fiddling with the knobs. Haven't shot out that far, but I don't anticipate any troubles. The tube seems plenty tough for wandering the woods of VA, and so far I have been very happy with it. This rifle was built with intent to be a do it all general hunting rifle, and I think this scope fills that role well.
Here it is on a home built LR-308ish rifle:
I couldn't be more happy with it. BTW, the yellow chair is my brass catcher.
