Nightforce NXS Torture Test — Extreme Punishment
Nightforce scopes are built tough. This was demonstrated in the latest Nightforce Torture Test. In this remarkable experiment, a Nightforce NXS 5-22x50mm scope was subjected to some truly brutal treatment — freezing, blasting, and pounding. During the course of the test, the NXS was:
— Encased in a block of ice for 24 hours.
— Blasted with a 12-gauge shotgun (while in the ice).
— Pounded on a block of wood to clear the ice.
— Used as a hammer to drive a spike into wood.
The test had two phases. After the ice-encased scope was blasted with a 12 gauge shotgun, the scope was mounted on a Barrett MRAD rifle (1:00 time-mark) and used to successfully hit a steel swinger target at 100 yards. Then the scope was removed from the Barrett and used to hammer a long steel spike into a block of wood (1:55 time-mark). Then, after the pounding, the NXS scope was reattached to the rifle, and used to hit a binary explosive target (2:25 time-mark).
WATCH Nightforce Torture Test Video:
The entire torture test process was filmed in a continuous shoot (with no “time-outs”) so there is no trickery. Watch the video to see the continuous time-line in the lower right.
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Tags: Barrett MRAD, Nightforce, Scope Hammer, Scope Ice, Sean Murphy, Torture Test, Video
The scope in the test is an NXS, not an NSX. About time people got this right they’ve been around for years!
For a product dedicated to precision and accuracy, I struggled with this video. There are a number of “cheats” in the production (note where the shotgun hits on the ice block, the position of the spike and type of wood used, the distance of the targets and their size).
All I came away with was the message that NF is good to use around camp if you forget your hammer!
I’m a USO guy . . but damn.
Give the scope to some of the guys I shoot with. They can break anything.
I saw the scope, with all of the scars, as well as the spike/log at SHOT show. Nothing I saw led me to question the legitimacy of this video. That scope was brutalized.