Nikon P-223

[BluGrass]

Just picked this up from Academy for 199.99
P-223 3-9x40 with rings. I couldn't pass it up. Also wondering if anybody else has this scope and how you like it. Will post pics after it is mounted.

 

[427mach1]

I have that scope and LOVE it. Great, crisp, clear optics, nice BDC features, great warranty all for under $200 including rings. You should be very happy with your purchase.

 

[BluGrass]

I have that scope and LOVE it. Great, crisp, clear optics, nice BDC features, great warranty all for under $200 including rings. You should be very happy with your purchase.

Thanks Mach. I know I will be happy the wife on the other hand.....
If you don't see a reply from me after tomorrow please send out the search party

 

[427mach1]

Mount the scope quickly, hide the boxes. If she notices the scope, tell her, "Honey, that came with the gun when I bought it!"

 

[Rastoff]

This scope flies in the face of what I've always been told about optics; buy cheap, get cheap. However, I've heard many good reviews on this particular scope. I feel that these are a little large for what an AR is generally used for, but so what? If you like it that's all that matters.

I'm curious to hear your range review.

 

[bman940]

I have been using Nikon's P-223 3-9 BDC 600 scope for 2 years now. Great optic and priced right. I've told a bunch of folks resently that there is a Promo going on right now that includes this scope. There was one a month ago that gave a free mount with the scope, now it's $ off at check out when you buy from a participating dealer. I am also a big fan, by choice of the P-223 3X carbine scope, great for inside of 200 yards and also sits on my night vision pig gun.

Here's a pic of my 13 year old sighting in the .223 with the P-223 3-9.

 

[427mach1]

This scope flies in the face of what I've always been told about optics; buy cheap, get cheap.

I agree, but I think this scope is the exception to the rule! Nikon generally makes quality optics and this is one of their better deals. I showed mine to a Marine firearms instructor friend and he was impressed enough that he is going to buy one for his AR.

 

[BluGrass]

This scope flies in the face of what I've always been told about optics; buy cheap, get cheap. However, I've heard many good reviews on this particular scope. I feel that these are a little large for what an AR is generally used for, but so what? If you like it that's all that matters.

I'm curious to hear your range review.

It does seem a little large but I'm thinking about using it as my deer rifle this season. Not exclusively but I'd like to try it a couple times. Added bonus it looks "tacticool".

 

[lonecoyote88]

I have one in 3 x 9 on my sport and its a tac driver at 100 yds Havant tried it any further yet

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[coltle6920]

If you researched it before buying and like it then that's all that matters.I put the exact same scope on my Colt LE6920 and love it.Didn't need locktite on the screws as some will suggest and it holds zero quite well.I like Nikon's Spot-on tool that gives you yardages for the circles on the crosshairs that correspond to the ammo you are shooting.

Are there better scopes out there? Certainly,if you're shooting varmints at 600-1000yds.Good luck with the scope and have fun.

Here's my Colt AR-15 with the P-223

 

[78Staff]

Nice pickup, the free mount promo ended 3/31 but I guess there are still some promo kits still out there. I had a M-223 2-8 promo but returned it, Nice scope but didn't care for the mount. Will use a T1 most of the time anyway and wanted QD. But went ahead and picked up a P-223 (no mount promo but priced less as bman mentioned) and will keep an eye out for a QD mount in the various EE's. Should make a nice low cost budget scope for the few times I will actually use it.

 

[bman940]

78, I keep hoping Nikon will come out with a good QD mount, gooodness know's I have guy's ask me for one a few times a week, as often as I swap out scope's it would sure help me as well. Right now I have one Larue QD mount that I have a M-223 2-8 BDC 600 attached to it. One of my favorite scopes because of how compact and low profile it is.The BDC allows me to use it on whatever cal. rifle I choose and right now it mostly sits on a .300 BO upper.
Glad you were about to take advantage of the PROMO, this is the first time Nikon has had more then one AR scope PROMO in a year.

 

[78Staff]

78, I keep hoping Nikon will come out with a good QD mount, gooodness know's I have guy's ask me for one a few times a week, as often as I swap out scope's it would sure help me as well. Right now I have one Larue QD mount that I have a M-223 2-8 BDC 600 attached to it. One of my favorite scopes because of how compact and low profile it is.The BDC allows me to use it on whatever cal. rifle I choose and right now it mostly sits on a .300 BO upper.
Glad you were about to take advantage of the PROMO, this is the first time Nikon has had more then one AR scope PROMO in a year.

Yeah I had the nikoplex M-223, it was a sweet scope, I probably should have kept it, to be honest, but i think I will like the BDC reticle better, for the same reasons you mention. I went ahead and ordered a Larue LT104 today as well. Scopes may come and go, but that mount should last a while.

 

[BluGrass]

Well got it mounted and bore sighted. Time to go to the range. I do have a question though. If I want to sight in at 100 yards should I just go straight to the 100 yards or should I start out at 25 or 50 yards and then move out to 100 yards? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bman940]

Spot On

I like to sight in at 25 or if I have to, 50 yards. Nikon's Spot On Program lets you enter your ammo choice, target distance and zero distance. It'll then tell you where your point of impact needs to be on the target for a 100 yard zero. It'll save you a lot of time and ammo.

 

[Rastoff]

If you've taken your time and done a proper bore sight, you'll be within a few inches at 50 yards. Still, every rifle is different so, you want to start where you'll be successful. Therefore, start at the 50.

Now, most people sight their .223s in at 50 yards. This will put you right on at about 200 as well. You'll be about an inch high at 100. The question is, what yardage will you be using it at most? I sight mine at 50 and this gives me a fairly broad range of use.

 

[BluGrass]

If you've taken your time and done a proper bore sight, you'll be within a few inches at 50 yards. Still, every rifle is different so, you want to start where you'll be successful. Therefore, start at the 50.

Now, most people sight their .223s in at 50 yards. This will put you right on at about 200 as well. You'll be about an inch high at 100. The question is, what yardage will you be using it at most? I sight mine at 50 and this gives me a fairly broad range of use.

Mainly I use this gun for fun at the range. But now that I've put a scope on it I was thinking about trying it out for deer season this year. Hunting from the ground in a blind in heavy woods I have two clear cut lanes at no more than 120 yards. That's a maybe though other wise just going to the range and shooting paper at 100 yards which is the longest they have.

 

[bman940]

Blu, While you will defintely be able to put a round on target with your new scope I suggest you not use your .223 for deer hunting. Many States have a .24 cal minimum for deer hunting for a reason. deer are tough animals and it's humane to do your best to try and harvest them with a 1 shot stop.
Shooting paper for group size is fun for a bit, testing different ammo's out to see what your rifle shoot's the best only keeps your attention for so long. Putting up reactive/steel target's, now that never gets old. Nothing like pulling the trigger and hearing that ping from a fmj on steel!

 

[moe smith]

I can't help but notice the apparent bullet holes in the horizontal pipe in the picture on the right. I suppose if you hit it just right it would launch rounds like artillery 18 miles downrange or pick off unexpecting low flying Cessnas. Are there ricochet marks on that pipe? I see what appear to be two dead center hits that penetrated it, or is that an illusion.

 

[bman940]

The holes in the pipe are for screws to go in and hold up a Vertical target.
It's not mine and it just happened to be in the background when I took the pic. I was testing a scope mount that day with my son, we put 1000 .223 and 1000 .308 rounds thru 2 DPMS Oracle's, awesome little rifles, not one FTF or FTE. I had targets at 100,150 and 200 yards, big fun but it was 105 deg. in the shade. Work for me but a blast for my son! The range I belong to is very strict on reactive targets for the reaosns you cited. They have a mandatory class for guy's who want to shoot steel so that no Cessna's are harmed.