MudRunner2005
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A little thinner than the German #4, but not anywhere near hair-thin. It's, IMO, a perfect size, and a good comprimise for shooters who prefer thick or thin reticles.
...What Zeiss has done some how is produce the same scope as the Swaro Z5 series for 500-600 dollars less...
Bruce....With each optic put in their respective price points, would you say that the Zeiss Conquest leads its class?
The selling point for me on the Zeiss HD5 5-25x50 is I have been aware of many swarovski scopes failing on bigger long range calibers and to my eye there glass is no better ,so the Zeiss for me is a tremendous value.I also really like the zeiss turrets
I've got a question about the turrets. How do they work? Ive heafd once you set them you only have like 17 moa of adjustment? I've looked through one and compared it to the viper PST. I forgot to play with the turrets because the salesman was extremely impatient.
I bought the PST because the warranty and the glass was very clear. I have slight buyers remorse because when shooting at 1000 yrds on 24x the glass is slightly foggy. I still took 2nd out of 20 and all of the rest had nightforce. But the zeiss has A LOT better glass. The thing I dislike the most about the zeiss is the gigantic crosshairs. They are huge! They must plan on you only shooting elk because the bars would cover up any dots on paper.
Have you adjusted the micro adjustment on the occular bell to keep from having to adjust the parallax that far out?I own both, the 6-24X50 Viper PST (2 of them), and a 5-25X50 HD-5. I really like the Viper for LRH/S but what you say is true, it really gets foggy past 20x. The turrets and zero stop work like a charm. I mounted one on my .338 EDGE and the other one on my .308. Just got a NSX for my EDGE, lets see how that goes.
As far as the HD-5 it seems to be a very nice scope, I mounted it on my coyote .243 rifle and I really hated the zero stop tech they use. It only allows 16MOA of adjustment on each turret. The glass is nice (nicer than the PST) Crystal clear all the way to 25x. Parallax adjustment seems a little odd to me, I almost always have to crank it up all the way to infinity unlike the PST.
Have you adjusted the micro adjustment on the occular bell to keep from having to adjust the parallax that far out?
I own both, the 6-24X50 Viper PST (2 of them), and a 5-25X50 HD-5. I really like the Viper for LRH/S but what you say is true, it really gets foggy past 20x. The turrets and zero stop work like a charm. I mounted one on my .338 EDGE and the other one on my .308. Just got a NSX for my EDGE, lets see how that goes.
As far as the HD-5 it seems to be a very nice scope, I mounted it on my coyote .243 rifle and I really hated the zero stop tech they use. It only allows 16MOA of adjustment on each turret. The glass is nice (nicer than the PST) Crystal clear all the way to 25x. Parallax adjustment seems a little odd to me, I almost always have to crank it up all the way to infinity unlike the PST.