Good afternoon Jim! What scopes and power would you recommend for 6.5 creedmoor for shooting out to 1000 yards +-? Looking at building my own gun or begara premier divide. Thank you for your time!
I like a 5-25x power for long range. The extra zoom is handy for seeing where you hit on the target, even though I’d normally shoot at 14x at 1000.
What budget are you looking at for the scope?
Discovery Optics has a new 5-25 that is EXCEPTIONAL for the price. On the high end, I love the Athlon Cronus.
Oh, and I love the Premier Divide, but I’d build. Get exactly what you want.
Jim, I looked up the Athlon is the one your talking about the Cronus BTR Gen 2 UHD 4.5-29x56 FFP? Looks like msrp is $1875. Is this the one you like the best?
Yes. I just bought two of them. Put one on my 6 dasher competition rifle and the other one is going on a Desert Tech sniper rifle. I love it.
The glass is absolutely top notch. The turrets give tracking perfect enough that I can’t see any error at all. I like the SIMPLE toolless zero of the turret, and the knobs aren’t too stiff. It’s just what I like.
If you do decide to get that one, you can get 10% off with coupon code PLUS on BackfireShop. We already price everything at map, so that’s the cheapest you can get it anywhere.
Sweet, i will look into that! I also need a spotting scope & binos with range finding & ballistics, whats your recommendation?
The Cronus 4.5-29 uses essentially the same glass as a Tract Toric and Trijicon Tenmile 4.5-30, but has significantly worse turrets. I’d get it at a steep discount (got mine for around $1200), but others with the exact same optic stack from the exact same factory have much better controls for the same-ish price if it gets to msrp.
Thank you for info
What don’t you like about the turrets? That’s honestly the thing I like most about it?
That $1200 is less than what a retailer can even order it from the manufacturer.
Elevation turret doesn’t lock (which I agree is situational) and the windage turret doesn’t lock nor is it capped like many other scopes at the same price point. The turret tension is very stiff, seemingly to compensate for them not being locked, which at least for me causes difficulties when trying to dial them quickly as I tend to overshoot the mark by a couple clicks in PRS stages and so on.
I’m not sure if this was just mine, but unlike my Tract and Trijicon, the Cronus did not come with Tenebraex scope caps or a shade in the box, which further diminishes the value proposition. FWIW I absolutely love the glass in all of the scopes I mentioned and I think its better than many scopes that cost a lot more, which is why I own a few, I just think the Cronus is definitely the “budget” one in the lineup, and would go with the Tract or Trijicon if the price was similar.