Tell Santa to Wait — New Scopes from Sightron
If you’ve been saving up your pennies for a new high-magnification scope, you may want to wait a few more weeks. Sightron just gave us this exclusive report.
Sightron will introduce two new 30mm-tube target/varmint scopes early in 2008. The first new optic is a side-parallax 6-24x50mm with 100 MOA of total elevation (50 MOA either side of center). It will be available in a variety of reticles, including at least one reticle with ranging features. Sightron expects the street price to be around $775-$790.
The second scope, and this is big news for long-range shooters, will be an 8-32x56mm side-parallax scope with 70 MOA of total elevation. The 8-32 will initially be available only with a 1/4-MOA target dot reticle, but other reticle options may be offered later in the year. The 8-32 should have a street price in the $825.00 range. This means it will cost less than a Leupold 8-25×50 LRT, but have more magnification and a larger front objective (56mm vs. 50mm). Sightron has tested its new 8-32 against the Leupold LRT and Sightron’s engineers believe the 8-32 compares favorably in terms of clarity, resolution, and tracking. This new Sightron 8-32 may even lure some buyers away from the much more expensive Nightforce line.
Sorry, no photos yet. There are only a handful of the new scopes in the country, but Sightron’s Alan Orr has promised full specs and photos in a few days. Stay tuned — we’ll run the pix in the Daily Bulletin as soon as we receive them. And Sightron will be sending us test samples of both the new 6-24 and the new 8-32.
An 1/8 minute dot reticle might be a better choice… sounds like it would make a reasonably good option for a scope for an F-Class gun, but a 1/4 minute dot would look awful big against the current LRFC target.
Monte: You’re right, and I mentioned the same thing to the Sightron guys.
I agree for F-class you could use a smaller dot
To me a 800.00 dollar scope needs to be right. Leupolds are not,I will never own another one again. I just wished someone would have told me about the scope lash problem. You should not have refocus every time you pull the trigger. Thats total B.S. on a 850.00 scope. Had the money to buy a Nightforce and did not. All the tests I read said good glass, they past the square shoot test and track straight. But they have scope lash problems all of them that are side focus. My advice would be save another 400.00 and go with Nightforce. DO NOT spend 850.00 on an unknown.