March vs NF

[Retired shooter]

Humor can keep many of us from ending up in a loonie bin. Too late for some. That face was my interpretation of Arte Johnson from Laugh In, " Want a Walnetto Baby"? "You bet your bippie". My wife has that in a large portrait hanging in her glass studio to cheer up some of her left leaning students. Actually helps. Whatta Hobby!

Completely agreed.
Problem is some would get their knickers all
knotted & the fued would be on.
Glad you didn't take it that way !

To all a great day !

 

[NF1E]

To those with knickers problems, pizzzonem! Life is to short.

 

[Retired shooter]

To those with knickers problems, pizzzonem! Life is to short.

NF1E
If I may ask with out changing the subject, how tall is your scope mount, and , made by who.?

Thank you Sir.

To all a good Day!

 

[NF1E]

NF1E
If I may ask with out changing the subject, how tall is your scope mount, and , made by who.?

Thank you Sir.

To all a good Day!

Night Force 34mm 6 screw XX-high 1.5".

 

[Retired shooter]

Night Force 34mm 6 screw XX-high 1.5".

Thank you Sir
Have a Marvelous Thanksgiving!

 

[Alex Wheeler]

To the vast majority of shooter's eyes the NF comp will come out on top. Im not going to pretend that that other scopes have just as good of an image. Im going to push the other manufactures to beat it. I don't and never will trust the NF comp. We had a LOT of reliability issues with them. Did they fix them on newer scopes? Who knows, they wont admit to a problem so they cant admit to a fix. I have zero time for that BS. So lets go March and Kahles. We are waiting for the best glass AND 100% reliability! At this time, there is no scope that has both. The hardest question to answer is when a customer asks what scope he should put on his BR or F Class rifle.

 

[Geronimo Jim]

I have had all of them and Alex is right on the money.

 

[TonyinKY]

How many Nightforce Benchrest 12-42X models have been unreliable?

 

[Gman]

How many Nightforce Benchrest 12-42X models have been unreliable?

I've never owned a NF Comp but do own the BR models. I do know that the Comp's glass is much better than the BR scopes, but I will say that I've never had a problem with tracking or holding POI with my BR's.

 

[jackieschmidt]

My favorite scope for Varmint for Score is the NF 15x55. My favorite scope for my LV Group Rifle is the March HIgh Master 48x.

The only other scope I use is for one Match. That is the March Majesta 8x to 80x 56 for The TackDriver.

However, this year I kept it below 60x for most of the Match. The 80x was pretty much useless.

 

[X-Caveman]

Seems to me these manufacturers are making it unnecessarily hard on themselves. No need for a dedicated BR scope to have 6x, 8x, or 10x mag range, fancy turrets, huge amount of travel, illumination. Something like a 20-60x50 with reliable POA, clicks, tracking and great glass, good side focus mechanism is all that’s required. Maybe keep it 30mm so it doesn’t weigh more than about 30 oz.

 

[JFrank]

For those that shoot March and Kahles and do not have a scope checker, how do they know their scope is holding point of impact any better than a NF ?

 

[Geronimo Jim]

Shoot enough and you will know.

 

[Mulligan]

For those that shoot March and Kahles and do not have a scope checker, how do they know their scope is holding point of impact any better than a NF ?

After my comp shit the sheets in the middle of a match, I bought two scope checkers and two frozen scopes. One dovetail, one picatinny, all my scopes get checked now.

I do not believe any company in immune from the occasional bad scope. It was the attitude of the rascal on the end of the phone when I called that soured me. Sold them all.
My comp rifles wear March High Masters.
CW

edited to fix poor spelling

 

[60723]

So far my comps and ATACR scopes have served well. Had an issue with mushy clicks. Called last week and rep told me how to fix over the phone. All good.

 

[JFrank]

After my comp shit the sheets in the middle of a match, I bought two scope checkers and two frozen scopes. One dovetail, one picatinny, all my scopes get checked now.

I do not believe any company in immune from the occasional bad scope. It was the attitude of the rascal on the end of the phone when I called that soured me. Sold them all.
My comp rifles wear March High Masters.
CW

edited to fix poor spelling

I agree that any scope can have problems, I had one years ago that went tits up and it was very obvious..
I only know three people that own scope checkers, if I had one I’d use it but I don’t.
I’m like thousands of other guys that just shoot what they like to shoot and have a back up scope just in case.

 

[tom]

Seems to me these manufacturers are making it unnecessarily hard on themselves. No need for a dedicated BR scope to have 6x, 8x, or 10x mag range, fancy turrets, huge amount of travel, illumination. Something like a 20-60x50 with reliable POA, clicks, tracking and great glass, good side focus mechanism is all that’s required. Maybe keep it 30mm so it doesn’t weigh more than about 30 oz.

Agree and have said that for more years than some reading have been alive, lol. We thought we had it, and then it didn't do one of those important things.

I was told many years ago (pre comp scope) from someone at nightforce that 3.5x was kind of a noticeable "max" for the optical things. They can't have been too wrong, as that's still the winner every time multiple scopes have been lined up focused on the same target at our range. Users eyesight never mattered anytime we've done that, the same order was always unanimous, but we don't have sponsorships either. We pretty much play that game anytime something new comes out, and it gets drug to the matches. Nothing has beaten the comp since 2013 yet, and I've looked through shit that doesn't even "exist" yet!......but we do have to aim with them so there is that!

Tom

 

[wildcat3d]

My Vortex Golden Eagle works very well. I use it on my 6X47 Lapua R700 for mid-range competition. No complaints from me. I really don't understand why people bash them, but maybe I just got lucky with a good one.

Love my Eagle!

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

Seems to me these manufacturers are making it unnecessarily hard on themselves. No need for a dedicated BR scope to have 6x, 8x, or 10x mag range, fancy turrets, huge amount of travel, illumination. Something like a 20-60x50 with reliable POA, clicks, tracking and great glass, good side focus mechanism is all that’s required. Maybe keep it 30mm so it doesn’t weigh more than about 30 oz.

Well, you're in luck. You've just described the March-X 10-60X56 HM almost to a T. It has a 34mm tube because you want the stability. It's 32 oz. I'm not sure why you dislike 6X zoom, but it's sort of required for a high magnification scope that will meet your weight requirements.

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

My favorite scope for Varmint for Score is the NF 15x55. My favorite scope for my LV Group Rifle is the March HIgh Master 48x.

The only other scope I use is for one Match. That is the March Majesta 8x to 80x 56 for The TackDriver.

However, this year I kept it below 60x for most of the Match. The 80x was pretty much useless.

I'll just leave this here.

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