UPS delivered my new scope from Primary Arms early this afternoon. It's a FFP 1-6 x 24 Raptor with the ACSS reticle. 3 day shipping from PA. Perfect because I had the day off and not much else to do except wait for more snow to hit in the next couple of days. So, in the middle of Michigan winter, I went out to my barn, fired up the wood burner, set up my bench, rest, spotting scope, and a 2" orange dot at 100 yards.
I unboxed the scope in the house. Cleaned all the mount screws with isopropyl alcohol, a dab of blue Loc-Tite on the threads and mounted the scope on an American Defense 30mm QD Recon. Installed the throw lever, popped the set-up on the top of my DDM4 Carbine and went out to zero it.
Ready to rock
100 yard backstop is between the pine trees
Using Federal XM193 55 gr. FMJ ammo, the first shot was on the cardboard low/right a few inches. Not too bad for right out-of-the-box and not bore sighting it. Doped it up a bit and shot #2 was a couple of inches above shot #1.
Over adjusted just a tad and put shot #3 high/left above the 2" orange dot. Brought it back down/right and shot #4 hit center but 1.75" to the right. A few windage clicks to the left and shot #5 hit dang near dead center.
Dumped the remaining 7 rounds that were left in the mag into the orange sticker and called it good.
I'm really liking this LPVO scope. The FFP and ACSS reticle with BDC out to 600 yards, 5 mph, 10 mph wind holds, 8.6 mph lead holds, and range estimation stradas are great additions. The windage & elevation adjustments track perfectly with solid tactile and auditable 'clicks'. The glass is surprisingly clear for a $400.00 scope. On the brightest setting (11) it isn't all that bright, but I could still easily see it even on a bright snow-covered day.
I have an Aimpoint T1 and Vortex Micro 3x magnifier, but due to astigmatism I keep seeing a bunch of little, flare pattern dots instead of one crisp, clear dot. No good. And I like this Raptor LPVO better than the Vortex Strike Eagle that I have.
That's about it. Packed everything up, went back inside, did a quick clean/wipe-down on my rifle and called it a day.
Nice way to kill a winter afternoon!
I unboxed the scope in the house. Cleaned all the mount screws with isopropyl alcohol, a dab of blue Loc-Tite on the threads and mounted the scope on an American Defense 30mm QD Recon. Installed the throw lever, popped the set-up on the top of my DDM4 Carbine and went out to zero it.
Ready to rock
100 yard backstop is between the pine trees
Using Federal XM193 55 gr. FMJ ammo, the first shot was on the cardboard low/right a few inches. Not too bad for right out-of-the-box and not bore sighting it. Doped it up a bit and shot #2 was a couple of inches above shot #1.
Over adjusted just a tad and put shot #3 high/left above the 2" orange dot. Brought it back down/right and shot #4 hit center but 1.75" to the right. A few windage clicks to the left and shot #5 hit dang near dead center.
Dumped the remaining 7 rounds that were left in the mag into the orange sticker and called it good.
I'm really liking this LPVO scope. The FFP and ACSS reticle with BDC out to 600 yards, 5 mph, 10 mph wind holds, 8.6 mph lead holds, and range estimation stradas are great additions. The windage & elevation adjustments track perfectly with solid tactile and auditable 'clicks'. The glass is surprisingly clear for a $400.00 scope. On the brightest setting (11) it isn't all that bright, but I could still easily see it even on a bright snow-covered day.
I have an Aimpoint T1 and Vortex Micro 3x magnifier, but due to astigmatism I keep seeing a bunch of little, flare pattern dots instead of one crisp, clear dot. No good. And I like this Raptor LPVO better than the Vortex Strike Eagle that I have.
That's about it. Packed everything up, went back inside, did a quick clean/wipe-down on my rifle and called it a day.
Nice way to kill a winter afternoon!
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