Hello fellow hide members, I want to write this review/ range report of the Nikon M-223 2-8X32 Riflescope with the 600 yard Bullet Drop Compensation Scope. I know this is not a night force, leupold, or even a Vortex. But I am very well pleased with the scope, as with any scope, none are perfect, I wish their was a perfect scope and their probably is but not in the budget range of most of us shooters. To begin this scope is mounted on a DPMS Oracle AR-15 it may not be the best but it is definatley not the worst in the ar-15 class. I bought the rifle with the intentions for many things, I wanted a CQB rifle and a predator rifle and even a long range rifle out of a single rifle. I know it's impossible but since I already have a LR gun I decided to make it a predator and CQB gun. I wanted a scope that was able to give a good picture at 500 yards and a 50 yards and this scope accomplishes that task well. It was hard to get over seeing a scope with such a small objective, but I got over that quickly. The image of the reticle is nice a clear, and easy on the eyes to use. Its a non critical eye relief scope so you don't need to be perfect with the scope to keep the picture clear. The reticle its self I thought was just perfect for the rifle and cartridge, unlike some of the bigger BDC reticle nikon offers the reticle on the M-223 is fine, with open circles and small has marks for the 50 yards and circles for 100 yards. I had a dislike for the BDC reticle on my friends hunting rifle but I actually quite like it on this scope. I sighted the scope in at 100 yards and after sighting it in, I went to see how well I could group on the 8 power and to my surprise it did quite well with the PMC ammo I was shooting. The DPMS trigger is nothing like the Timney 510 on my Remington, but I was able to accomplish around a 1 inch group. Even with doing that I was able to shoot 500 yards on a 5x5'' target with four shots ( I blame the trigger). At 50 yards it would be easy to pick up a running coyote or a man size target, any closer than that I will resort to instinctive fire. The turrets on the scope are (Rapid Turrets) they are quite big which will be nice for the cold -30* days here in Colorado, but they are exposed and have no locking system or way to tell what revolution you are on. They have a reset to zero which is done by pulling the cap up until it clicks and then rotating it back to zero. This is for both elevation and windage turrets, and they are marked for every .25 moa and their is a letter every 2 moa. After zero I checked to see how much elevation I had, and I have 47 moa of UP adjustment, I did never count how much i have down. The mounts I used where the p-series scope mounts. Now the biggest dislike I have is the Anti Reflective device, It does not match the color of the scope, and I ended cutting it out of my scope because I could not get it off! but the ARD was made of decent plastic and the honeycomb cardboard was easy to cut thru with a hack saw blade... I dont know why it was so difficult to remove but I decided a 10 dollar device was not gonna stay on my 300 dollar rifle scope.. For the price I think its a great scope for an AR rifle and for a shooter who wants enough magnification to see out to 600 yards, I think I may be able to pull off a shot on my 1000 yard target that is 24 inches in diameter. That will be for another day. I hope this is some help to the shooter looking for a medium range rifle scope but can be used for close range also, For the money I dont think it can be beat, I did look at similar scopes with the same magnification such as weavers, and Vortex even though they are on the cheaper side the waver scope did not have the same clarity to the nikon and the vortex just did not have the features I would have liked to have, plus both scopes were up to 7 power and the Nikon is an 8 power. If I had a thousand dollars to spend I would have tried for the Leupold but I dipped into my tire savings to buy the gun and scope. Now for the pictures!!!!
