Except for a few different options like reticle choice, are these two scopes the same? They sure have a lot of the same qualities. Thanks
Delta 5x-50x HD Versus Trijicon 5x-50x Ten Mile
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Full bias disclosure: I own two Stryker HD 5-50s and absolutely love them. I personally think they punch $1,000 over price.
No-one can tell you if these are the *same* 'scopes, because the folk who know at Light Optics Works aren't saying. Certainly the reticles differ somewhat, I prefer the Delta to the Trijicon for my use, but, chacun a son goute. Buyers can specify what LOW puts into their 'scopes so who knows what the difference really is.
There is a material price difference, though, in favor of the Delta. Some folk lean to the Trijicon on warranty issues, I overcame that when I bought my first Delta Stryker. I liked the first one so much, I bought another for my other F/TR rifle.
I would close by saying that the Delta parallax wheel makes focus a breeze if that big wheel suits your style of shooting.
No-one can tell you if these are the *same* 'scopes, because the folk who know at Light Optics Works aren't saying. Certainly the reticles differ somewhat, I prefer the Delta to the Trijicon for my use, but, chacun a son goute. Buyers can specify what LOW puts into their 'scopes so who knows what the difference really is.
There is a material price difference, though, in favor of the Delta. Some folk lean to the Trijicon on warranty issues, I overcame that when I bought my first Delta Stryker. I liked the first one so much, I bought another for my other F/TR rifle.
I would close by saying that the Delta parallax wheel makes focus a breeze if that big wheel suits your style of shooting.
Ledd Slinger
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Glass and mag range is the same but that’s about it. Reticles and mechanics are different and some other things. For instance, the Trijicon uses a tooless removable truer cap design that I really like. Trijicon comes with Tenebraex scope caps in the box. But the biggest difference I found is the side focus/parallax turret. The Trijicon goes out to 1000 yards before hitting infinity whereas the Delta goes to 300 then infinity. So the Delta focusing mechanism was built around shorter range shooting (most likely 22LR competition shooting and short range BR) and the Trijicon has a much finer focus adjustment for dialing in a good crisp picture with no parallax at long range.
I heard the Delta has been updated so not sure if they addressed the short touchy focus mechanism but the one I had a few years back wasn’t nearly as good for dialing in a crisp picture at long range as my Trijicons have been.
Then there’s warranty. Some people care, some don’t, but the Delta is only 10 years and they are located in Poland I believe. Trijicon is lifetime warranty and located here in the states. Trijicon has always maintained an excellent reputation for good customer service as well. But I wouldn’t know because I’ve never had to make a warranty claim on my Trijicon optics which is what a person really wants
I heard the Delta has been updated so not sure if they addressed the short touchy focus mechanism but the one I had a few years back wasn’t nearly as good for dialing in a crisp picture at long range as my Trijicons have been.
Then there’s warranty. Some people care, some don’t, but the Delta is only 10 years and they are located in Poland I believe. Trijicon is lifetime warranty and located here in the states. Trijicon has always maintained an excellent reputation for good customer service as well. But I wouldn’t know because I’ve never had to make a warranty claim on my Trijicon optics which is what a person really wants
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>But the biggest difference I found is the side focus/parallax turret. The Trijicon goes out to 1000 yards >before hitting infinity whereas the Delta goes to 300 then infinity.
Clearly not true. Please try to be factual if you're going to be critical. This is the current Stryker HD 5-50, FWIW.
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Ledd Slinger
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Well then they changed it because I guarantee you that’s not how the original Delta Stryker 5-50 scope focus was set up because I owned it me when they first came out. Hated the short range touchy focus wheel.
That’s why if you read my post all the way before popping off at me you’d see I also mentioned I heard they changed things on the scope but wasn’t sure what they changed and the focus may have been one of those changes. That elevation turret in your pic is completely different from the original models as well. Good to know they changed the focus but nothing I said was untrue.
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Ledd Slinger
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I even did a full review on this site and comparison of the original Delta Stryker 5-50 against my Kahles K1050 (thread link below). Conducted a full recoil test on my scope checker as well. Resistance to reticle movement under recoil was perfect but there was a significant shift of POA in the reticle as I zoomed up in the mag range. I put that scope thru the ringer long before most folks had even heard about them.
As you can see, the scope looks nothing like the current model. And it did have a focus that only went to 300 yards before infinity which greatly hindered its ability to tune in images at long range. The image also got pretty bad and blurry on high magnification levels when I had the elevation turret turned beyond 75-80% of it’s travel range.
As you can see, the scope looks nothing like the current model. And it did have a focus that only went to 300 yards before infinity which greatly hindered its ability to tune in images at long range. The image also got pretty bad and blurry on high magnification levels when I had the elevation turret turned beyond 75-80% of it’s travel range.
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Ledd Slinger
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Here is another review I did on my Trijicon Accupower 4.5-30x56 for anyone interested. Delta also has a very similar scope also made by LOW in 4.5-30x56. Though I never did buy the Delta since at the time in their original models they greatly lacking on the focus knob design compared to the Trijicon. If a person didn’t need really high mag levels, the Trijicon 4.5-30x56 (now called Tenmile but same scope as original Accupower model) is an absolutely amazing optic in every aspect. Don’t think I could ever bring myself to sell that scope.
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whihc was the better scope ? whihc had better glass ?
Ledd Slinger
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I explain the glass in my review and in following posts detailing why I sold the Kahles due to the whitewash color image on cloudy days I wasn’t crazy about. The Delta had better color and the Kahles had better resolution and the Kahles cuts thru mirage better than any high power scope I’ve ever used.
However, the Delta image is really bad if you try to use high magnification levels at the extremes of the elevation adjustments. Gets very blurry. Anyone who owns a Delta or Trijicon 5-50x will see what I’m talking about if they dial up 90+ MOA on the turret then try to use it on 50x. They should have made the Delta/Trijicon a 10-50x or 15-60x or reduced the amount of available elevation to around 70-80 MOA. A 10x mag range of 5-50x is way too much for a scope to also have 100+ MOA of elevation. The 10x range also causes point of aim shifts on the target when zooming from low magnification to high magnification which is not good.
Both scopes can be good depending on what you are doing with it. There is no reduction of image clarity on the Kahles at any mag range with any amount of elevation dialed in and there are no point of aim shifts so the Kahles is a better scope for someone who plans to use all of the available elevation and all mag levels. If planning on only using enough elevation to shoot distances that do not require an extreme amount of elevation and using the same magnification level all the time then the Delta/Trijicon is great. If changing magnification levels thru the Delta/Trijicon 10x range to engage targets at varying ranges, just be aware of a possible POA shift from low to high powers that I found in my testing. Both hold zero under recoil perfectly and track extremely well.
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