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JBMedina

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I have been looking around for a good scope to put on my AR. Recently I have run across a couple of ads for the Horus Vision Predator varmint hunting scope. It is an 8-26x50. The add states, "should your first shot be a miss, Horus provides a "second shot correction" feature... showing precisely where to hold, (no matter distance or wind), to hit that critter 100% of the time. It sounds pretty good but I was wondering if anybody had any first hand experience with this scope? Oh, the scope comes with a patented MOA Varmint Reticle coupled with the Horus Digital Aiming System to be calibrated to your specific loads. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
Never heard of it but beware of gadgets they can drive you nuts and broke and most of them do not work any place even close to advertised.A good name variable with a max 15 X and a fine cross hair will do you well.When you get into the range finding reticles and BDC guesstamate shoots around trees your asking for trouble. You are the one in control of where that bullet goes, so be aware of your range and drop learn to dope wind it is not hard just takes trigger time. Looking for short cuts only waste time and cash
 
I looked at these as well and discarded the idea based on the following review. It's 5 pages long, if you want to read it.
The main portion that 'turned me off' is about the middle of the page that will pop up.

Horus Review

The author is intent on using it for 700-800 targets, way past the range I would normally shoot and as he says, the scope grid is extremely 'busy' with no adjustment knobs.

I guess I'm 'old fashioned' and hard to come into the computer age, but after many experiences with others becoming dependent on the results of a computer as opposed to figuring it out in my head (or with normal writing tools), but without the accompanying PDA and software, the scope is generally useless and the grid marks get lost in most dark backgrounds. If you don't use or lose the correct gridmarks, you will miss your target anyway... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
 
Old Turtle-thanks for posting the Horus review, After reading this I have changed my mind about this scope. First of all it sounds like you need a college degree to operate it, but what I really don't like is the fact that you can lose your zero real easy if you are not careful. Also as you are holding off for windage it is very easy to lose your verticle, so where does that leave you? Plus the writer was shooting to distances that I would not shoot to. The 600-850 yd ranges just don't intrest me. Anyway, thanks again and I guess I will keep looking.
 
get a loopy 6x18 target and work up a drop chart to 600 yds, I got 2 chucks at 550 by dialing up. and for game hunting with an AR about 600 is the absolute limit.
RR
 
A rat with a college PhD couldn't get through that maze of a reticle.

By the time you do the work to figure out which part to use, the critter is dead of old age.

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