I've been speaking with Minox a bit regarding the 5-25x56 LR rifle scope and have some answers and information.
Hopefully Somone can do a review and compare to the old one.
I will likely be doing a review on this in a few months when they arrive in the U.S. This Minox, an XTR III and perhaps an LOW OEM'd ~$2k scope might make a good lineup though I haven't contacted any of the other makers about this yet. Minox is interested though.
I talked to Minox and they said that the technology is simpler and the glass has remained the same but what is going to make this new scope a killer in the scope market is that it is about 1000 euro cheaper than the zp 5-25 line
I asked Minox about the glass, coatings, optical design, and mechanicals. The glass in the LR is not the same as the as the ZP5 though the coatings are. The LR is also not the same optical design as the ZP5. Optically, the LR actually shares more design commonality with the ZE series though some of it's design is entirely new. The turrets on the LR are the same design as the ZP5 so that is where they are most similar.
They changed their warranty again.seems to be happening every 2 years. Original warranty was for workmanship and material defects for the original owner, then a few years back they allowed it to be transferable, now it seems to be limited to 10 years after which you pay labor costs. I wonder if the warranty is still transferable or not? If not that really kills resale if you buy an lr and don't like it
The warranty is for the original owner.
A side note on this is that Europeans really do not get the American forever and transferable warranty thing. What few EU makers do follow suit were browbeaten into it by their U.S. marketing people. Frankly, I think the warranty thing is a bit of a strange quirk in the rifle scope industry myself. People run over scopes with their 4 wheeler and expect the scope maker to replace them for free. Very strange.
If they offer a lower magnification version and street price is under 2000 usd then I'll be extremely interested in this new offering.
Provided they can offer a half decent warranty.
They do not have either a lower power model planned at this time or more reticles planned for this one. Neither of these things is off the table though, just not part of any current planned roll out. I expect they want to see how this scope does. It certainly looks like a water testing offering to me being sort of all alone in the product line.
What is the expected delivery date?
They were supposed to be here already and they are sitting in customs in Germany as I write this. Coronavirus has apparently held up the German customs people. You can imagine how happy they are with the current situation. Hopefully the scopes will be here in a month or so.
To the guys talking about the specs being the same: Have you not checked the field of view? Am I missing something?
ZP5 vs Long Range
Field of view min / max at 100 m (m) | | 14.0 / 4.7 | | | | 7.2 / 1.6 |
The Minox website is in flux at the moment. Lots of stuff is sort of disarranged or just not correct.