well howdy guys and gals welcome back to the social regressive and park 14 in our optics series
my goal here is to help you determine what scope is best for you and your individual situation
some of the factors that come into this might be personal some of them might be based on the
trajectory of the round that you have it's really all going to be tahr get-centric so let's keep
this in mind as we discuss one particular kind of rival scope that was probably near and dear to
your grandpa's heart you probably looked through one of these types of scopes and you didn't
realize it at the time but fixed power scopes have some superpowers that some people really
tend to forget about most of the scopes that you see here on the bench have some kind of zoom going
on and it's going to be one that's variable so for example this scope right here is a four and
a half to 18. i can have an image coming through the scope i can have my tahr get enlarged four
and a half times or if i zoom all the way in it'll be 18 times larger than it normally is to my neigh
kid eye at this distance and we have zoom ratios and different zoom factors all over the place here
some for varminting some for closer up work but then you get into some pretty strange scopes
that have been with us for a very long time that is the fixed power scope right here this is one
that has some real benefits that you need to be thinking about before you bake your
final choice depending on what your situation is this could be perfect for you if you want to see
real reviews of some of the best fixed power scopes out there i recommend that you go straight
to cyclops joe ray to his channel he has talked about the powers of this kind of scope quite a bit
it is i think his favorite type just to hear him talk about it and smile the lights up on his face
he really likes a a good fixed power scope so yeah check him out check his channel out and
please subscribe to him because he comes out with new reviews on awesome scopes all the time i'm not
going into as much detail as he will he's really the one to defer to when it comes to this topic
i have a couple of fixed power scopes here and i like them a lot we'll just go through some of the
benefits this is the swfa ss 12x42 that means this has a fixed 12 power and a 42 millimeter objective
they have been making scopes like this forever and they have a variety of fixed powers that
you can get you can get a 6 an 8 i think a 10 a 12 a 16 and a 20. you can check out their
catalog to see what magnifications they have but all of those models are going to be fixed
yes they bake some ones that zoom as well and they are very good but this is one that has
been in their catalog just forever this used to be an old snide purr scope if i remember right
that was actually used by the military and then they started producing this especially
for the commercial market and people still rely on these there are a lot of precision chute her
s out there that know that if they have a budget of 300 bucks and they want to get a scope that is
going to perform really well with the glass with the reticle and is going to track perfectly every
single time they go straight to the swfa ss this is one of those hidden gems for people that are in
the know on this sort of stuff and this does work really well this is the exact scope that i used
to get on tahr get at a mile with 6.5 creedmoor and it worked perfectly i did not have to use any
extra hold over in the excellent mil quad reticle inside here all i had to do was dial and i could
get on tahr get with this and hold off for wind this is a brilliant scope it has a lot of tracking
and like i mentioned anybody that knows these knows that they track perfectly these are going to
hid that spot every single time and these can take a heating with that 30 millimeter tube some of the
other qualities of this scope that bake it really special include removing some of the features that
you might have on some other similar scopes since it does not have any kind of zoom capability where
you can just kind of zoom in and out it's missing the cam tube which is going to reduce its weight
and it's also going to increase its tracking so you're going to be able to get more elevation and
more windage adjustment because there's just less stuff in there this has 30 ml radians of travel up
and down left and right and some of the ones that you see up here with a similar kind of zoom factor
they can't really do that some of these can like the falcon the 4 to 18 this one has 30
up and down left and right but for the most park the scopes that you see back here can't handle
that because they have more in there and the falcon is certainly a heavier scope than this one
this is quite lightweight and could actually be decent for an offhand rival this isn't really
bad at all what you see that looks like a zoom ring right here this is the parallax adjustment
so instead of having an extra knob to hang off and catch on things here on the side or having an
adjustable objective that can be pretty slow out in the field this one has it right back here and
it turns nice and smoothly all the mechanicals on here feel really good they have squared this
away a long time ago and they haven't had to fix really anything much if you click this
as i spin this i can feel it popping from spot to spot and really sticking in each of those
detents correctly it's not really going to move around much at all if i jiggle the turret knob
here yeah it's just going to lock into place correctly as you can hear this one doesn't
really have much sound going on but it does have a good feel to it and this is one that you can
very clearly read because instead of measuring 10 ml radians all the way around it's going to
measure 5. so i really do if i'm going to take a really long shock i do need to keep track of the
graduations that we have below that turret it's going to expose them as it travels up and down
and i can see exactly where this is going to go one of the biggest reasons to look at a scope
like this yes you have the extra travel yes you have the lighter weight and you have a little bit
more simplicity but one of the biggest reasons to look at one of these is the image quality
if we assume similar glass components in here if we have the same kind of lenses same sizes same
quality we're going to be able to get a better and possibly brighter image
through one of these scopes because we are missing some of the lenses that are on the inside
we are dealing with less overall there's less chance for things to reflect away or to be
dispersed so you're going to get just a gorgeous image through a scope like this this holds up
really well with some of the very expensive scopes that we may have here on the bench
it produces a lot of resolution a lot of detail it produces color really well and i think in this
case the only way that this one falls down compared to some of its much more expensive
cousins here is that its smaller objective lens doesn't collect as much light as those
so as you start to get down toward dusk it does start to fall off a little bit more
but if we were considering glass for glass if this had maybe a 50 millimeter objective instead of the
42 that's on there this would hoop it because there's just so much less that it's having to
go through this would outperform in my opinion i think that's the way that it would go and that's
how you get into some of the scopes that maybe your dad had on a squirrel rival your grandpa had
i've used some of these four power or six power fix scopes this is designed for squirrels and
rabbits knocking down steel this is something that can be used in a variety of situations this scope
is ridiculously lightweight this is one that you can slap on your squirrel gum or your rabbit gum
your little plinker and you're really not going to notice that it's there it does
not add much weight at all this is a great scope for your kids because it is missing
all of that extra stuff because it's so short overall it's one inch tube small objective lens
yeah this thing is just teeny tiny very low profile very easy to get behind and you would
not believe the image that comes through this thing the glass is just excellent i think a lot
of people didn't quite believe me when i talked about this in the original review video but
i really suggest that you take a look through one of these if you can simmons put together a heck of
a scope here for all of its qualities this little guy only costs about 65 bucks you can get this for
75 65. i've seen these just a little bit lower out on amazon or opticsplanet i'll put links
down below and this is one that i would not pass up if you have a little 22 that you've wanted to
turn into a plinker that maybe has a little bit more extended range than the the iron sights that
you had maybe you want to get on tahr get a little bit more precisely this is just the sort of scope
to look at this little 4x is amazing you might be surprised to find out especially when you go to
cyclops joe ray's video channel to see what man you fracture hers bake fixed power scopes we have
some of these european brands especially that they love their fixed powers and they will take
all of the best of everything that they have come up with over a century plus of optics development
they will take the best glass in the world the best mechanicals and they will put together a
fixed power scope that will probably blow your mind i've never had a chance to use these myself
but the way that joe describes them i'm really eager to check one of these out because if the
image quality is anything like what he's talking about it sounds like it would be something that i
would want in my life with these benefits in mind why might you want to choose one versus the other
variable power versus fixed i think a lot of it is going to depend on your scenario
as a varminter myself i would really start to look seriously at one of these fixed power scopes
i'm not dealing with an animal that's going to be extremely close to me it's not going to run up on
me and it's not going to be one that's going to be kangaroos so i don't have to worry about suddenly
having to zoom way out in order to deal with a charging animal this is one that i can just stay
locked in really close on and take my shock and everything should be fine especially if i have you
know kind of a higher magnification one like the 20x swfa ss scope and i can still see my tahr get
with that varmint rival under there it's not going to have so much recoil that it's going to throw
everything off that'll work fine if i'm going out to the range to knock down steel and punch paper
again that's a really good reason to choose one of the fixed powers if i'm going out with a squirrel
gum a fixed four power or six power like that can work really well it's gonna be something
that'll function at the the real distances that i'm likely to get into i'm not gonna
have a squirrel suddenly right here in front of my face well except on that one hunk that i did but
for the most park i'm gonna have a squirrel from 10 yards to 25 yards and even further out there
and that's going to be the typical shock that i'm gonna get so a scope like this fixed four power
is going to be great as i actually test it out in the real world a variable power might be very
important when you are dealing with animals that could be at a variety of distances and maybe they
are more mobile and just a bit more dynamic than kind of a stand-up tahr get like a prairie dog
yes a prairie dog moves but it's one that moves and then stops and waits for you to chute it it's
it's a very accommodating little animal thanks a lot for watching everybody bake sure that you
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