Originally Posted By: REDOTOriginally Posted By: jlindholm70Originally Posted By: REDOTACOG's, for their built purpose are hard to beat, one tough scope. However, on a calling rifle I dislike them. You pretty much have to shove your eye into the ocular lens for sight picture, as they have very little eye relief. For me, I live in Minnesota, so on a cold cold winter day, the heat coming off my eye alone being so close to the lens makes it frost up. Also the field of view is so-so. I feel the Nightforce NXS 2.5-10 is a better way to go on a calling rifle. Indestructible like the ACOG, but with variable power, better eye relief, better field of view, adjustable target turrets, (opinion) a little better glass. Also they are relativaly priced the same, pending on features.
Nightforce is one of the top two or three scopes on the market right now, but it's not the absolute end all cure all scope that you make it out to be. I will agree that the eye relief is a little tight on ACOGs, but thats how I was trained, nose to charging handle, so the eye relief doesn't bother me. I've read other people claim that the FOV on the ACOGS aren't very good, but when you look at the specs, it just isn't true.
ACOG TA31F (4 power scope) 36.8ft @ 100 yds
Burris MTAC 1-4 power 100-20ft @ 100yds
Nightforce 2.5x10x32 44-11ft @ 100 yds.
One day I'll end up upgrading to a Nightforce from my Zeiss, but that'll be awhile, at least until I get this MATEN that I want built.
So wouldn't you agree that the NF @ 2.5X has over a 7ft. field of view advantage over the ACOG ?
Sure does, at 2.5x vs the ACOG at 4x. When you do the math, it works out that the ACOG has a better FOV than the Nightforce at 4x.