Re: New Nightforce "B.E.A.S.T." & ATACR
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: badshot338</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Man, this place is vicious! For years I frequented this sight and listened to everyone whimpering about NF not having a FFP 5.5-22. People call for greater adjustment for you to push the envelope. You ask for locking turrets.
Nightforce makes a new optic that unfortunately isn't a 5.5-22 FFP. Instead they make a 5-25 which has even greater magnification range. They make one with a 34mm body tube that transfers more light and gives 120 MOA of adjustment. Not to mention 60 MOA per rev which allows most shooters to transition from zero out to the ballistic capabilities of most of your cartridges in one rotation. It has better resolution. They make it with a locking turret. My god, what more could they have done!? They call it a BEAST. Bad name, I get it and it has some obnoxious red on it. Most of the people I assume this optic was initially built for aren't going to care what they call it and they are going to spray paint it with some desert colors.
While you were all speculating, I called NF about it. The button on top engage the locking mechanism of the turret. The lever on the back is a fine adjust. So each click it 1/2 MOA or .2 Mil's. The lever is a fin adjust so you have a 34.75 MOA drop at "X" distance, you adjust 34.5 MOA with the turret and flip the lever to adjust the extra .25 MOA. I think its actually quite interesting but I do admit I would have liked it to be 1 MOA per click and a three position lever for .25 MOA per click. Or .5 Mils per click on the turret and .1 Mil per click on the lever. They said the illumination is a push button set up which is the gold portion of the parallax/focus turret.
Why in the heck would they make a 22x FFP when they made the BEAST? First focal pane scopes cost more to make. That's why they cost more to buy. Gee wiz, how bout that... If they made a FFP 5.5-22 wouldn't you think it would cost close to $3,000?
Oh, and when I was talking to them, they said it will retail for $3,400. I think NF did a fine job of listening to everyone including the military and made something that will compete on the highest level.
I will be ordering one the first day they become available. I can't wait to try it! </div></div>
Here's what you're missing. Shooters were asking NF for a FFP a couple years ago, which is ages in this industry. While NF was putting together a new FFP package, the competition got there first and even worse, they were good. Bushnell, SWFA, Vortex, Leupold; if you told me last year that these names would be consistently winning matches I woulda called you crazy. And apparently NF didn't see it coming, either.
I'm not slamming NF, in fact they're one of my favorite scopes, but that explains why everyone is underwhelmed by this release(again, we don't have all the info so this is subject to change).
The market has changed since the NXS debuted, and with HDMRs, Razors, SS5-20s, Leupold Mk6, etc already out there and available, it just feels like another entry into a quickly crowding market.
