Bulzeye Pro.........not for me?

[223Rem]

Took the plunge and picked up a 3X optical booster from Bulzeye. Followed the installation and set-up procedures and have a really crisp, clear sight picture. Only problem is that there does not appear to be much of a boost in magnification.

The optic is a Leupold VX-III 6.5-20x40 with fine duplex reticle. With the power ring turned up to 20x and the 3x booster installed the reticle vertical posts bracketed the height of a brick (in a brick wall) @ 50 yards (across the street).

When the booster is removed, the vertical posts are a bit shy in bracketing the same brick (drew a black dot in it, hope the neighbors do not notice). The boost appears to be only marginal at best.

Maybe I should put a piece of a paper with 1" spacing marks on it to actually see what level of boost the optics is achieving?

 

[6BRonwheels]

The 3x booster should increase your 20x to 26x. I prefer the 4x model, gives a bit more boost, but at 20x would only take you up to 28x. I am using a 4x booster on a 50x so I am up to 70x, that makes a noticable difference.

 

[Coleridge]

The way I understand it it makes you rectical larger too. So your x-hairs should cover the same thing regardless of the booster on or off. Kinda of like a first focal plane rectical would do. A different test may be in order

 

[223Rem]

The way I understand it it makes you rectical larger too. So your x-hairs should cover the same thing regardless of the booster on or off. Kinda of like a first focal plane rectical would do. A different test may be in order

This makes perfect sense........

Wish I could think of some other 'test' to determine the actual optical boost performance. Any ideas?

 

[Coleridge]

Go to the HOME PAGE here, click FREE TARGETS from the left side bars, scroll down till you see SCOPE TESTING TARGETS. Save & print the 2nd & 3rd of those. It's pretty much as word document with decreasing font size. You should be able to read smaller print on 26 than you can on 20. You could make your own as well.

There may be better directions below the targets... Is'nt this a GREAT site!!!!

 

[pfinney]

I have a 4X booster and use it on a March 10-60X scope.
Using 6BRonwheels's logic that should make a pretty big difference to my mag (over 75X) but i assure you that its nothing like it. I actually think that the 4X makes my scope 64X (simply add the Bulzeye X to your own scope). I also have the 10X to 80X March X and i can be 100% sure that the Bulzeye is not taking my 60X scope anything over 65X

Your will be 23X rather than the scopes 20X, thats why you cant see much difference.

Frazzle

 

[223Rem]

Guess I need to pony up for another scope to get the level of magnification desired. Can not justify spending $170 to gain a marginal amount of increase.

 

[Taildrag15X]

I use a couple of 4X Multi Coat boosters on the Leupold Premier boosted to 50 power, I know there's a big gain as I can see .22 holes that I can't without it. I don't have the screw on, it's the old slide on that has 2 distance settings, the further back from the scope the more mag. you get, for my F-Class FTR Rifle I have a custom housing that holds the booster anoter 1.250" away.

 

[6BRonwheels]

The 30% gain for the 3x booster and 40% gain for the 4x actually comes from the customer service people at the company. I have never actually tested these figures, just quoting the customer service person. I really do think that my scope is close to 70x with the booster, based on what I can resolve with and without the booser.

 

[pfinney]

6BRonwheels

their CS is a funny thing. I spoke to them before i bought mine too, and they told me that they mag was literally the number they give (ie a 3X booster adds 3X mag) but the real gain is the coatings they put on the lens. These apparently can help with mirage and clarity, depending on the eyes looking through it. I did extensive tests on my March, and to be honest, i felt that the extra little mag was offset by the darker image and smaller FOV. Also of course it messes up your focus so the numbers on your parallax dial no longer equate to the actual distance (or even close).
It may sound like i am anti the lens, im not actually, i just think it suits some people better than others.
What i would suugest though, is that you try to get a look through a March or S&B scope (the X50 one) and i think you will see that the mag is nothing like you were told my the CS team.
This isnt the first time i jave read that they dont exactly understand their product!!!


OK, having just hit POST, i remembered how the CS team got people confused before....

The most common scope is a X10, and if a booster is used on that, then yes, a X3 booster WILL add 30% and a X4 WILL add 40%, but of course the more mag your scope has to begin with , the smaller % gain you get.
I hope this helps?

Frazzle

 

[Taildrag15X]

pfinney,

I'm not understanding how adding the Bulz Eye Booster changed the FOV of the scope......it onlly mags the image that the scope has in it....like looking at a postage stamp with a magnifing glass, the image is larger.

 

[pfinney]

Taildrag15X

Im not that technical so cannot say for sure why the FOV shrinks. remember though that the extra lens is in infront all the scope lenses so it actually makes the entire package longer, and maybe this is what gives you the smaller FOV?

As in most things in life, its always a compromise. If you are looking to simply increase your mag, something has to suffer. In this case its a small amount of brightness of picture and a little less FOV. For some people this wont matter, for others it will.

I didnt compare how the mirage looked with/without the Bulzeye, so maybe thats another advantage (it is advertised as helping with mitage).

Frazzle

 

[Taildrag15X]

Taildrag15X

Im not that technical so cannot say for sure why the FOV shrinks. remember though that the extra lens is in infront all the scope lenses so it actually makes the entire package longer, and maybe this is what gives you the smaller FOV?

As in most things in life, its always a compromise. If you are looking to simply increase your mag, something has to suffer. In this case its a small amount of brightness of picture and a little less FOV. For some people this wont matter, for others it will.

I didnt compare how the mirage looked with/without the Bulzeye, so maybe thats another advantage (it is advertised as helping with mitage).

Frazzle

OK....this is where I'll throw a flag, blow the whistle and give you a 15 ydr' for B.S.

I have and use one of the Bulz Eye Boosters on each and every range trip and NRA F-Class Tournaments I compete in since they came on the market as the Gene Davis Booster, and I will tell you again....it does not change the FOV. I know it increases the OAL of the scope, mine is mounted in a custom housing that is giving an extra 1.250 to the length between the lens for even greater mag. increase. If you had one and used it you would know that yes it does let you see and read the mirage as advertised, repeat as advertised, it only mags. the sight picture you see in the eye piece. You can almost get the same effect by using a 3X or 4X loupe, or a low power mag. glass, but they don't attach as easy nor or they coated.

Tired of hearing from people like you that only talk B.S. about something they know nothing about.

 

[RDavies]

So when you say they make it easier to read the mirage, does it make mirage stand out more, or make the waves more clear? I dont need mor epower, but I often want something that will either give me some mirage on a cool still day, or something that will make mirage more clear on a warm humid day.

 

[pfinney]

Taildrag15X

ok, you need to think before you post things that are easily proved wrong.

If you take any image seen in a scope, then enlarge it 4X, the image looks a little bigger, but you cannot see as much of it can you? If you could still see the WHOLE image then the eyepiece would have had to have grown slightly too, and that my nasty friend, doesnt happen.

Also, for some reason you seem to have had a bad day and your post is clearly aggressive, yet you agree with me that the Mag is only a few times not the 40% others have claimed, and you also agree that the lens can/does help you see mirage. So, why you felt the need to challenge me over this i have no idea.

Next time, check your facts. Just because YOU cannot see that the FOV has shrunk by a few % does not mean you have defeated physics