Decided to remove the Arken EPL4 off of my Christensen Arms Ranger 22, and put the first XTR-II 5-25x50 on it... I went off my original sight-in with my boresight tool, so I should be close when I zero it tomorrow.
The weather was shit today, and it was dull and gray, so I sat in the den, and propped up on a chair, and overlooked the lake, and spent some time glassing different things out to around 1000 yards, and reading words at distance, testing the parallax, etc... Not sure about the previous complaints about the glass suffering on the top-end, but the one I just mounted, at 25x the glass is good enough to clearly read words on a dock and on waverunners at 600+ yards on a shitty rainy day. So, I'd say that bodes well... Hopefully the weather will be good tomorrow, and I can get out to the range, and get some good time in behind it. If the glass is as nice as it appears, I will be buying more of these to replace lower-priced optics on several of my rifles. The turrets are nice and solid, the zero-stop is easy to reset once you get the hang of it, and the whole scope is impressive at the sale price, and I think it's a good buy at regular price.
One thing I did notice, was the eye box got REALLY tight at 25x. But it seemed to loosen back up when I bumped it back down between 20-25x. So, that's good to know that around 22-23x it's still very useable with a good FOV and eye box.
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