Sponsored shooters… In the wild, how many people do you see shooting MK5’s they bought and paid for themselves? Not many, I bet. I see LOTS of different rigs from all price points up at the range, and over the years, I may have seen less-than a handful of them sitting on the bench.
The thing to remember is even though they may be given an optic it still has to stand up to the same conditions as the others for that person to finish in the top
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True, but I feel like many scopes get swapped without other people being aware of the failures by sponsored shooters. I’d be willing to bet this happens with all brands…The thing to remember is even though they may be given an optic it still has to stand up to the same conditions as the others for that person to finish in the top
Decent thread on some PRS optics here
Vortex RazorHD Gen III 6-36x56 vs NF ATACR 7-35x56
Anyone compared these two scopes side by side, thoughts, differences?
A metric fuck ton. If you got out and shot matches you would know this. For every sponsored Leupold shooter there are 5 to 10 non sponsored shooters running them. They are probably the most popular single scope in PRS at the moment.
They’re still fragile internally, just like the original MK-IV was. Lightweight means lighter internals, which means less-robust parts. Just a fact of manufacturing.
Seriously you need to stop. Every non Socom MK22 has a MK5 on it, and I can tell you from first hand experience some JSOC guys are running them. Its a very well proven scope by this point and to say otherwise is pure ignorance and stupidity. Its probably had more rounds put through it than just about anything else you will see on the firing line at this point. High level shooters are probably shooting 10-20K rounds a year. If it didnt track or hold up, it would have such a strong following and those "sponsered" shooters would be dumping them the way they are dumping Vortex for ZCO right now.
I'll gladly pay 300-400 more for the used mk5hd - i wonder why it's 10x more popular from PRS shooters paying to travel and shoot?
The new production XTR-3 5.5-30x56 is quite impressive optically. Mine will hold its own with other higher-priced scopes that I own. Maybe mine is a freak of nature, but it's pretty damn incredible for the $1,200 they're selling them for now.
I still have 2 of the US made ones, and they are great, especially the SCR2 for tiny groups. And 2 G3's, as I found those better values than the Alpha stuff after trying it all. But OP has 1.5K to spend, so T6xi or used S3 still my vote.
I would take a 5-25mk5 for 1500 or 1600 as well. That would be a pretty good deal. Same with razor 2 for 1200. Gonna be 1500-1600 used usually for the razor more for the leupold. A couple slip out cheap between Christmas and tax returns though. Not going to find those prices every day.
You don't understand the difference between people entering info on a site potentially years ago and never updating it and a guy who polls the top 200 shooters on their specific equipment they are using right now and publishes it?
It's hard to determine if this is the general theme, but the 3.3-18 US made I have has great glass up to 12x, then it drops off noticeably.
Anybody know why more PRS shooters aren’t running this? Seems like it checks a lot of desired boxes
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Yep, lot of mark5s, and two to three times as many that are not mk5s.
First reason is probably they haven't been out that long. Second reason would probably be the Steiner TX5 broke a lot hearts.
I got rid of my 3-18 XTR3 and got the XTR Pro. Glass is noticebly better. My XTR3 really dropped offaround 12 power. I find it hard to believe the 5-30 XTR is that much better with the same glass.
Its not a PRS scope. Plain and simple. Its a duty scope. But its the same glass as the XTR Pro, same reticle choices as well. I personally HATE the locking turrets and -.4mill Zero stop.
