Thank you for a most excellent quick run down on FFP and Parallax. As you like to wear hats, when you're giving lectures, you might want to swap the flat cap for a Mortar Board or square academic cap to complete the look.
These are good quality scopes and especially as they also have a lifetime warranty! I have the Arken EP5 5-25x56 FFP on my HMR and I can't fault it. Great reticle, great turrrets, good build quality and the click adjustment is bang on and solid. No mushy feel to the turrets either. The ONLY down side I noticed was the gas port on the underside of the saddle which can foul a single piece mount bottom depending on which mounting system you use. Otherwise these are a great optic to use out to distance!
Nice one, good explanation of things for beginners! This looks a nice scope, for target work especially as you mentioned the adjustment travel for reaching out to 1000. As the title says "best price for a centre fire?" I'm going to have to come back with an opinion. 😂 Depends on the type of shooting you do, this scope has a feature set that a target shooter would appreciate. If it's for pest and predator control on farms as often is in the UK, (and often at night,) a scope set up for mpbr is often utilised as it enables quick point and shoot out to reasonable range. (With a fox passing through there often isn't much time for technical calculations.) With a 233 for example on fox size target, it's going to be about 200-230m. I will add that the 1" tube sfp scopes are very much still of the present and there's good ones out there that are reasonably priced and suitable for centrefire use. I agree, avoid cheap no name eBay scopes. I don't want to harp on about hawke, but I have been using them for about 12 years with no problems, for around £100 and up the your getting monotube construction, nitrogen purged, all calibre rated and a lifetime warranty. The only time mine fogs over is when I come in from outside to inside on a cold night, and that's the exterior of the glass, not the internals, same as the exterior metal work of thr gun. I expect all scopes would do that. It's not just hawke either, with 200-300 you can get decent scopes from Nikko Stirling, vector optics, vortex, optisan and probably lots more. 👍👍
I have a HW80 air rifle, and it is a brutal in destroying telescopic scopes within a few months. Anybody got a HW80, and recommend a scope that lasts ?
vortexoptics.com/crossfire-ii-4-12x50-ao-dead-hold-bdc-moa.html Vortex carry a no questions lifetime warranty. If it breaks they replace. And I would suggest your springer will struggle to break it..
I believe we should all be the best we can be in the things that interest us or that we naturally excel in. I do not think everyone can "learn to fight" and to some it would be a detriment. There are many ways to avoid trouble and peoples time might be better spent building a great business and securing themselves through finance - move to a safe area, hire security if required. That said if fighting is of interest then that is good. I learned by getting beaten up on a regular basis for about 5 years then running doors for the following 20yrs. I took boxing lessons, learned some mixed martial arts and competed in some semi pro events where I usually got my ass beat as well! It left me with a reasonable repertoire that I now never have to use. Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war...
Thank you for a most excellent quick run down on FFP and Parallax. As you like to wear hats, when you're giving lectures, you might want to swap the flat cap for a Mortar Board or square academic cap to complete the look.
These are good quality scopes and especially as they also have a lifetime warranty! I have the Arken EP5 5-25x56 FFP on my HMR and I can't fault it. Great reticle, great turrrets, good build quality and the click adjustment is bang on and solid. No mushy feel to the turrets either. The ONLY down side I noticed was the gas port on the underside of the saddle which can foul a single piece mount bottom depending on which mounting system you use. Otherwise these are a great optic to use out to distance!
I really like that reticle.
Nice one, good explanation of things for beginners! This looks a nice scope, for target work especially as you mentioned the adjustment travel for reaching out to 1000.
As the title says "best price for a centre fire?" I'm going to have to come back with an opinion. 😂
Depends on the type of shooting you do, this scope has a feature set that a target shooter would appreciate.
If it's for pest and predator control on farms as often is in the UK, (and often at night,) a scope set up for mpbr is often utilised as it enables quick point and shoot out to reasonable range. (With a fox passing through there often isn't much time for technical calculations.) With a 233 for example on fox size target, it's going to be about 200-230m.
I will add that the 1" tube sfp scopes are very much still of the present and there's good ones out there that are reasonably priced and suitable for centrefire use.
I agree, avoid cheap no name eBay scopes.
I don't want to harp on about hawke, but I have been using them for about 12 years with no problems, for around £100 and up the your getting monotube construction, nitrogen purged, all calibre rated and a lifetime warranty. The only time mine fogs over is when I come in from outside to inside on a cold night, and that's the exterior of the glass, not the internals, same as the exterior metal work of thr gun. I expect all scopes would do that.
It's not just hawke either, with 200-300 you can get decent scopes from Nikko Stirling, vector optics, vortex, optisan and probably lots more. 👍👍
Thanks for this:very informative vid
I have a HW80 air rifle, and it is a brutal in destroying telescopic scopes within a few months.
Anybody got a HW80, and recommend a scope that lasts ?
vortexoptics.com/crossfire-ii-4-12x50-ao-dead-hold-bdc-moa.html
Vortex carry a no questions lifetime warranty. If it breaks they replace. And I would suggest your springer will struggle to break it..
Do you believe in learning how to fight, if so , to what extent?
I believe we should all be the best we can be in the things that interest us or that we naturally excel in. I do not think everyone can "learn to fight" and to some it would be a detriment. There are many ways to avoid trouble and peoples time might be better spent building a great business and securing themselves through finance - move to a safe area, hire security if required. That said if fighting is of interest then that is good. I learned by getting beaten up on a regular basis for about 5 years then running doors for the following 20yrs. I took boxing lessons, learned some mixed martial arts and competed in some semi pro events where I usually got my ass beat as well! It left me with a reasonable repertoire that I now never have to use. Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war...