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SVT_Tactical
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Posted: March/12/2010 at 09:35 |
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be" - Abraham Lincoln
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HB51
Optics GrassHopper Joined: January/26/2010 Location: Boise, ID Status: Offline Points: 10 |
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I am curious about the Zen Ray spotters as well.
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onfinal
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I ordered an angled Zen-Ray Sedona spotter from SWFA, but was unable to check it out because the hole in the mounting base that secures it to a tripod was incorrectly cut and it wouldn't mount. I returned it for refund and bought a Vortex Skyline 80 (non-ED) locally, but it had such heavy chromatic aberration I registered my concerns with Vortex Optics, who was kind enough to send me the ED version of the Skyline 80 to check out and see if I wanted to go in that direction.
Unfortunately, the Skyline 80 ED Vortex sent me was from their "demo B" inventory (if that was demo B, I would hate to see demo C) and was in such shape that I didn't even take it to the range. But I did compare it out my bedroom window to the non-ED Skyline while I still had both, and the CA was somewhat less but still evident in the ED version. So I went from a <200$ spotter tainted with poor quality control (the Zen-Ray) to a $450 spotter that was not satisfactory for my needs (to see .223 holes in a Shoot-N-C target at 200 yards) to a $750 ED-class spotter that looked to me like it hadn't held up very well. I am at present spotterless, but hopefully a little wiser. You really do get what you pay for. I wasn't completely sold on that concept, but I am now. One other thing: my experience was that any 80mm spotting scope will require a very sturdy tripod, so there's a few more pounds to carry around. |
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whitneymuse
Optics GrassHopper Joined: April/09/2010 Location: Southern CA. Status: Offline Points: 21 |
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Me too, I need a new spotting scope and will consider the Zen-ray because if their bins are as great as this thread has been raving, they should make great performance-value scopes, too; so my mind tells me. I know I've never been happy with my Nikon and I wasn't going to fork out for the Swarovsky that impressed.
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