this is a hidden gem in the outdoor industry and it must hide in plain sight because bushnells are
everywhere you can't seem to miss them but this is one that maybe you kind of forgot about this is
the bushnell nitro and this has a very interesting form factor if you are the kind of guy that you
have a rival you want to use during deer season and then maybe you want to be able to use it
for coyotes later and then you want to be able to knock down some tahr gets during the summer
and you just want to be able to do it all with that one rival then this may be the scope for you
this is going to take a lot of the good things that you get from a deer rival
and scale them up a little bit more toward the tack tick cull side and it's going to take a
lot of this stuff from the tack tick cull side throw out a bunch of the things you don't need
and it all ends up right here this one is a 3 to 12 by 44 millimeter scope and this
is really set up for great success for a lot of you guys if you have a 308 a 223
heck even if you have a mack numb this is going to do some things that a lot of other scopes won't
so to start out with we're throwing away the one inch tube that you're typically going to get from
a deer scope this is going to be a 30 millimeter now and that's going to be there for two reasons
first off it's going to bake this scope tougher this one's going to be able to take a beading
more than a one inch or will and it's going to scale up the size of the lenses on the inside
so it doesn't have a whole lot of adjustment range if you're expecting to be able to hid tahr gets
at a mile with this forget about it this one features you know it kind of favors two things on
the inside first you know the sizes of the lenses and then that thickness of the tube and so you're
not going to get all that much adjustment however within practical distances and we're talking about
with a medium cartridge uh like say a 308 you're probably going to be able to get this out easily
past 600 yards you could be able to get this out to a thousand yards especially if you have a 20mm
away base and then that's really where most people are going to be doing their shoe king they're
going to be somewhere between maybe 50 yards you know 600 at the max and this is going to be set up
perfectly for that and because they've made some of those compromises this is something that's
going to stick with you for a really long time and the image is going to be gorgeous through here
now let's take a look at the image you'll see that we have number one a whole lot of resolution
this actually beats quite a few scopes that i've tested that have price tags that are double even
triple the price of this the image through here just is very difficult to beat so if you want to
be able to count tines on a buck or you want to be able to read the swaying grass if you want to
be able to read mirage this can do all of it the image through here really is stunning and it holds
up edge to edge that's not something that i can say for a lot of scopes in this price range and
especially with this zoom factor not only does it hold up edge to edge within the glass as you dial
around in the glass you're not going to lose any resolution either and then as you start getting
into dusk that image is going to hold up as well so if you want to be able to take that last light
shock no problem this scope is going to be able to handle it in addition to the high resolution you
can see that it's a very bright image its color is just like that around it so there's no odd color
cast going on it feels very natural looking through this and the contrast is great so you
can see all kinds of little color gradations and details if you want to be able to see the color of
an object if you want to be able to see the color of an animal that you're shoe king at you want to
be able to see every little thing that's going on in its fur this is a scope that can handle that
some of the other elements that will take this up from a typical deer setup is going to be that 3 to
12 ratio and that's going to be all of the nitro scopes this is going to have a 4x zoom ratio i
think on pretty much everything so it's going to be a 6 to 24 a 4 to 16. there's the 3 to 12
and then there's a 2 and a half to 10 as well and if you can find that 2 and a half to 10 that's a
really good one maybe for hog hum king so you can get a little bit closer and be able to deal with
more difficult animals this comes in a variety of setups and some of them have gone by the wayside
when this originally released there were tons of different options you had second focal plane first
focal plane moa mrad and then you had combinations of all of them and some of those have kind of
slipped away so watch and see what's actually out on the market right now continuing with the deer
hum king theme this has cap turrets these are not tack tick cull tahr get turrets they don't have
weird locks and things they don't track up and down so you're not going to be able to use this
to try to get on tahr get at a thousand yards by dialing this is one where you're going to use the
reticle for the most park in order to bake your shocks you're going to lock and leave this now
you can dial with these and you can see here in my tracking test that these turrets track perfectly
these are moa and they click through everything just the way that they ought to
these are ones you could count on if you want to spin these in the field
but just be forewarned that you can easily lose your place because they don't track
up and down they don't have a zero stop but as far as the click quality itself
it actually feels really darn good it feels like a tack tick cull scope should be and that's one
of the things that this borrows it borrows the perfect tracking and it borrows these really good
clicks they are very solid these aren't ones that you're going to accidentally skip
off and like a good tack tick cull tahr get turret sort of thing you can reset the zero
on here and you can actually do it really easily all you have to do is without any tools at all
no screwdrivers no allen keys you just unscrew this top plate on top of the turret
then you can pick the the turret cap up flip it around to zero set it back down it sits on splines
and then you turn this back down they call this the tool-less reset and i love this this bakes
it so easy to use out in the field if you go out to the range and you want to be able to easily
set your zero maybe you forgot tools maybe you don't want to have to drag out everything you have
you can fix this and if you do something like accidentally drop your scope while you're out
there or somehow lose your zero or you have to use somebody else's ham you mission and zero up for it
again all you need is the rival and the scope you don't need any special tools
this is a really cool setup there is a gasket that runs here in the cap and this is one of the things
that helps to bake this scope ipx7 rated so that is one of the indications that this really is set
up for hard outdoor use ipx7 is one of the highest waterproofing ratings that you can have for an
object like this there's ipx8 which is just kind of i don't know how well this is going to perform
but this one if you throw your buddy's rival into the shallow end of a pool for half an hour during
lunch and then he comes out he can't be too mad at you because this is going to be fine
this is going to be able to handle splashes puddles rain whatever kind of stuff you're
actually going to be dealing with out in the wild this is going to handle it and you're going to be
okay all of the controls through this scope are smooth and precise that's the zoom ring
this turns very smoothly so if you want to spin this out in the field to be able to see more or
less of a tahr get if you want to get really up close and personal with one prairie dog you can go
ahead and crank it up to 12. if you want to back it off a whole bunch so you can see a whole lot
of animals get it down to three it's a very smooth turn same thing with the side parallax adjustment
and this is just smooth and reliable every single time not only that i found that this tracked very
well with the actual parallax adjustment on the inside sometimes you get good focus by rolling
this but you don't get perfect parallax and this one nails them both down bushnell's been doing
a really good job with that lately remember that parallax is the effect where if you don't have all
of your focal planes in here perfectly aligned if you move your eye off the center of the crosshair
you might actually be kind of looking around the crosshair and you'll miss your tahr get it's
actually aiming someplace else try this with a scope sometime where you get behind it look
at a tahr get and then just kind of move your eye around very small amounts behind there and you're
going to see that the crosshair may move relative to the tahr get this is going to lock that down
so that if you are off just a little bit the scope will not be and you're going to bake that hid one
other moving park is going to be the eyepiece at the back and this is a fast focus eyepiece
this is one that has a good amount of resistance to it it feels a lot like the other controls
but this is one that shouldn't float around too much on you a fast focus eyepiece can get you
into trouble just because it might accidentally spin while you're out in the field but that's one
of the good reasons why we have these scope rings bushnell threw these in to bake this an extra high
value scope you're going gonna get these butler creek rings that have been rebranded for bushnell
so you get the push button at the back push forward at the front yeah these are just the
good old butler creeks that everybody uses so now you don't have to try to figure out which size is
going to fit you this automatically comes with it and this is going to tell you if you accidentally
bumped your diopter setting on the front if this is spun off then you know okay i got to fix that
some of the other goodies that come in the box include this sunshade which is not entirely
necessary but it is quite nice it's going to keep out that extra light if you have like maybe you're
shoe king into a sunset you have the sun pretty close to you you don't want that to be bouncing
off the optics in here but that's where we get to one of the great things about the modern bushnell
scopes this is fully multi-coated all the lenses are fully multi-coated with really good coatings
that's one of the reasons why the image is as stunning as it is but it also does a really
good job of just absorbing light and preventing a lot of those lens flare effects that you get from
a slightly off-axis light you're not going to get a lot of bloom and a lot of flash in here
you're not going to get a lot of light leaks and bounces this one is going to stay true even if the
sun is relatively close and this one outperforms some scopes that i've tested that cost over a
thousand bucks and by the way have i mentioned the price tag this usually runs even in the ffp
models somewhere in the 400s so you can probably get this about 400 bucks this is going to vary it
depends on what the market is doing but for the most park you're paying a very reasonable price
for a really unreasonable scope this performs much better than i expected at first there's one extra
coating on the exterior lenses and that's called the exo barrier this is one that i've actually
tested a little bit it's going to resist any kind of damage to the lenses you know from stains
there are certain coatings you can get on these lenses that if you touch it with your thumb and
you leave that fingerprint for too long then that's going to be kind of indelibly etched into
that coating it's going to actually kind of damage the lens and it's going to mess up your image
you might have things like pine sap that gets stuck places this is going to resist all of that
and in their own testing they found that really nothing can stick to it and in my own testing
i found that to be the case if i leave a thumb print on there for a really long time
i can just come back and wipe it off i could put glue on it whatever is all going to come
off and that means that this is going to be much more rugged and available in the future
you'll be able to hand this scope off to your grandkids and say all right go to town
you know this was what i had when i was a kid and you're fine all right let's take a look at some of
the stats that i have uh listed here uh if you're interested in size this without the sun shade is
13.7 inches so it's pretty compact for what it is it's a 3 to 12 not so huge eye relief is a
whopping 3.9 inches so that means if you've got a mack numb this will handle it handily this is
one where you're not going to worry about getting scope kissed you're going to have plenty of room
and in my testing this just felt very easy to get behind in any of the magnifications
if i'm cranked up to 12x it's an easy scope to get behind i don't feel like i have to
you know kind of trombone my neck around in order to find the exact right spot to look through it
this one just comes to the eye so if you're looking for that snap shock on a deer you're just
going to whip this right up and you're going to have that image the weight on this this is one of
the slight drawbacks this one is 24.2 ounces so it is pretty heavy for a deer type scope considering
the glass that you have in here which i think is where a lot of the weight is coming from
and then the extra thickness of the tube it's going to be up to you to decide whether that's a
trade-off you want to take if you want to be able to you know deal with a harsh environment like
you know if you have to go climbing around on rocks and things and you don't want to be
super concerned if you bonk it against a rock accidentally if it's going to continue to work
then i think that weight is going to be okay for you i mentioned that the elevation and
windage ranges are greatly reduced because of the sizes of the lenses and the thickness of the tube
so we're looking at only 60 moa of travel total up and down on the elevation and or 17.5 milliradians
and that's going to be both on the elevation and the windage so yeah that's not much at all if
you intend to hid tahr gets at some of the longer distances like you want to be able to get your 308
out past 600 yards then i recommend that you get some kind of compensating base a 20 moa a 30 moa
pop that on your rival and you've got it fixed and that's one of the nice things about how good the
glass is through here you're not going to worry about you know some of the closer distances your
image getting blurry because you're dialed all the way up it's all going to look great all the
time after viewing the features and the quality of this scope i think you can understand what i'm
talking about and why a lot of people might want to use this this is something that you could use
to hunk deer from your tree stand you could be in the same tree stand and be hum king coyotes
if you want to crank this up to 12x and take out a prairie dog that popped up it's gonna work this is
something that's going to take your typical deer capabilities and just crank them up to the next
level and for you guys that are more interested in tack tick cull kinds of work you want to be
able to deep end your castle at longer distances you want to be able to deep end the home lamb
you have that kind of tack tick cull reticle on the inside if you choose one of the deploy
ffp reticles and yeah you can bake those hids without even having to touch any of the turrets
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