I bought one of the Minox 3X15 rifle scopes. I have not mounted it yet, but here ae my initial impressions.
Fisrt off I like the side focus. What I dislike about the side focus is I had to go to the 50mm OL to get the side focus. I would have preferred a 40mm OL, but I will have to live with the 50. The 50 does look a bit awkward on what otherwise is a trim looking piece of glass.
I took the scope out on the porch yesterday. I have a few White Pine trees and Sycamore trees about 200 yards across the stream. I focused on the pine needles. I could see the individual pine needles in the clusters of needles. And I could also see the coloration differences in the needles and the pine bark. I then switched over to the Sycamore tree. As you guys know a Sycamonre tree has small patchs of different colors of bark. You could clearly see the small patches, as well as discern the color of those patches. And the edges of those colored patches was crisp and clear at 15X. This glass in the Minox scope is living up to it's Schott heritage.
Most scopes do not pass the Sycamore test. Alot pass the pine nedle test, but alot do not pass the Sycamore test.
The knobs are positive clicks. The clicks are reasonably audible, but not what I would consider to be loud. The scope does not have target turrets. But the turrets are fairly tall(about 1/2 the height of a Leupold target turret). They can be rezeroed. And the clicks are numbered in MOA(I think). Or at least there are 4 clicks between each number.
I will need to mount the scope to know for sure about the tracking of the scope. But I will not be turning many dials with this scope. It is going on a short range 223 ground hog rifle. More to come. Tom.
Fisrt off I like the side focus. What I dislike about the side focus is I had to go to the 50mm OL to get the side focus. I would have preferred a 40mm OL, but I will have to live with the 50. The 50 does look a bit awkward on what otherwise is a trim looking piece of glass.
I took the scope out on the porch yesterday. I have a few White Pine trees and Sycamore trees about 200 yards across the stream. I focused on the pine needles. I could see the individual pine needles in the clusters of needles. And I could also see the coloration differences in the needles and the pine bark. I then switched over to the Sycamore tree. As you guys know a Sycamonre tree has small patchs of different colors of bark. You could clearly see the small patches, as well as discern the color of those patches. And the edges of those colored patches was crisp and clear at 15X. This glass in the Minox scope is living up to it's Schott heritage.
Most scopes do not pass the Sycamore test. Alot pass the pine nedle test, but alot do not pass the Sycamore test.
The knobs are positive clicks. The clicks are reasonably audible, but not what I would consider to be loud. The scope does not have target turrets. But the turrets are fairly tall(about 1/2 the height of a Leupold target turret). They can be rezeroed. And the clicks are numbered in MOA(I think). Or at least there are 4 clicks between each number.
I will need to mount the scope to know for sure about the tracking of the scope. But I will not be turning many dials with this scope. It is going on a short range 223 ground hog rifle. More to come. Tom.
