Rifle Scopes Help picking light weight scope for shorty build

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Just ordered a 18” 6.8spc barrel for my origin and now need glass for it. Will be used for East Texas hog hunting and be the gun that bounces around in the truck and SXS. We don’t have any place on the property we can hunt with shots farther than 200 yards. Below is my criteria.

Lower zoom to get bigger field of view. Something like a 2-10???? A 1-6 would be awesome but those seem to struggle when it starts to get dark.

Illuminated reticle.

Good glass to help pick out those black hogs at dusk and dawn.

Lightish weight. Don’t want a 30 oz scope on this one.

Doesn’t have to be ffp or exposed turrets and don’t care if it’s mil or moa.
 
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Baron85 said:
Just ordered a 18” 6.8spc barrel for my origin and now need glass for it. Will be used for East Texas hog hunting and be the gun that bounces around in the truck and SXS. We don’t have any place on the property we can hunt with shots farther than 200 yards. Below is my criteria.

Lower zoom to get bigger field of view. Something like a 2-10???? A 1-6 would be awesome but those seem to struggle when it starts to get dark.

Illuminated reticle.

Good glass to help pick out those black hogs at dusk and dawn.

Lightish weight. Don’t want a 30 oz scope on this one.

Doesn’t have to be ffp or exposed turrets and don’t care if it’s mil or moa.
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The new Vortex Viper HD scopes are very light and have good glass for the price.
 
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I have a 3-15 lh hd and a 2-10 lh both are awesome. If the 2-10 had illumination I would be set.

Trying to see what alternatives there are since I don’t need 3-15 magnification or turrets that dial. If there is nothing else out there I would happily buy another one though.
 
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Baron85 said:
I have a 3-15 lh hd and a 2-10 lh both are awesome. If the 2-10 had illumination I would be set.

Trying to see what alternatives there are since I don’t need 3-15 magnification or turrets that dial. If there is nothing else out there I would happily buy another one though.
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3-15x42 HD-LHT is an excellent scope and there is a lot to be said with sticking with what you know works for you.

That having been said, I also have the Delta 1.5-9x45 mentioned above and it is very good in low light and VERY fast on target. That fiber illuminated dot really draws your eye and going down to 1.5x for the quick stuff really works nicely.

If you want the lightest possible option, I would not overlook Trijicon Accupoint 3-9x40 either.

ILya
 
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How is the glass quality on the accupoint? And since it is fiber optic I imagine that the illumination disappears at first and last light?

We hunt in the swampy low lands in thick forest so not much light in the mornings and night. As well as getting into night hunting with lights a bit. Just want to make sure the illumination would work well enough. I have wanted to try a trijicon.

The delta looks like a great option, I will dig more into that one later tonight.
 
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If 200 yards is your farthest shot, and you want rugged and robust, while keeping things fairly light, an LPVO is your best friend. I regularly shoot my subsonic 220gr loads in my .300 BLK at 200-300 yards with a 1-10x28 Primary Arms SLx LPVO with the Griffin M10S MRAD reticle (it's not a BDC, it's actual MIL stadia, so your not confined to a BDC structure for specific bullet weights and calibers).

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My concern with a lpvo is the low light performance. The lpvos I have used suffer severely in low light and the shadows. I run 1-6 on my 6.8 AR and love it other than low light performance.
 
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Baron85 said:
My concern with a lpvo is the low light performance. The lpvos I have used suffer severely in low light and the shadows. I run 1-6 on my 6.8 AR and love it other than low light performance.
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You should really try a newer LPVO... The PA SLx I linked has a 34mm tube and a 28mm objective lens. It gathers plenty of light.
 
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What's your budget? Man, I get what it is that you're looking. I'd love to be able to have my cake and eating it too. Unfortunately, light gathering ability while having a small objective is impossible.

I mean, you can get a really good LPVO that does well for an LPVO at gathering light, but no matter how much you spend on an LPVO, it's light gathering performance is going to suck in comparison to any decent scope with a larger objective.

A 2-10x or 3-9x with a large objective from Leupold or Trijicon or something like that can be light and will gather light, but it won't be compact.

I put together a 300BO for hogs out to 200 and I put a 3.5X ACOG on top of mine. My hog situation is close to yours. Rifle gets thrown and bumped around in the bed of a UTV or on an ATV and I wanted something tough. For tough, compact and light, you can't beat an ACOG. The superb glass and 10mm exit pupil can't be beat.

My rifle has been bounced around, dropped and eaten sh!t and the ACOG has some nicks in it, but no dents or bends. Other LPVOs I've tried have taken a beating. The Vortex products are pretty tough on the occular end, but I've had to use pliers to correct bent objective ends due to mishaps.
 
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I’m going to throw my vortex 2-10 on for now and see if I’m satisfied. Will go from there. Illumination is convenient but I have shot plenty of pigs at dark by finding the reticle above the pig and lowering it down onto the pig.
 
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Baron85 said:
I’m going to throw my vortex 2-10 on for now and see if I’m satisfied. Will go from there. Illumination is convenient but I have shot plenty of pigs at dark by finding the reticle above the pig and lowering it down onto the pig.
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Vortex 2-10 PST? That's a killer scope. Only downsides are weight and non locking turrets. Check em before you shoot and you'll be fine.
 
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Well, i got home last night after a date and did some drunk shopping. I hate it when I do that. I had it in my head that I'm tired of LPVOs. I mean, being the package of compromises that they are, they work well as a flexible optic, but for any given role, there's a tool that will do the job better for less.

I got the thought that I wanted a 2-10x to run with a piggyback red dot and was going to buy a primary arms glx, but eurooptic had a deal on leupolds where they pay the tax. Yeah, i grabbed a Mk4HD 2.5-10x. I wasn't drunk enough to go for the Mk5.
 
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