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no's Review of Konus KonusPro-M30 1-6x24mm Rifle Scope, 30mm Tube
Negatives:
Dark image at 6x.
No intermittent-off position for illumination, no motion activation.
The red illumination isn't daylight bright. It's barely daylight visible. It's sufficient to give you some contrast when aiming into an area that's partially in direct sunlight and partially in dark shadow. It's just enough illumination to be visibly red. It looks better at an indoor range. It's very usable indoors and suitable for a home defense carbine.
The blue illumination is very dim. It is so dim that when I was zeroing it at an indoor range I thought it broke, but no, it's just so dim that indoor lighting washed it out completely and made the blue color invisible. It's useless. I have no idea why they bothered with it. A properly selected green LED would have made it enormously more conspicuous and usable, in my opinion.
If anyone from Konus reads this, I know that this setup most likely has either two separate emitters or a single flush mount LED that can emit either red or blue. You might want to consider going with just a single LED. Watt of input power for watt of input power, a green LED is under almost all circumstances more visible to the human eye than red. Maybe speak to the engineers about swapping in a premium resonant-cavity or point-source LED module for illumination. Several manufacturers offer high-intensity LEDs in surface mount packages already designed for use in optical sights. It should be a simple 1:1 swap.
The 1x is usable for fast work in close, but the outer 20% or so of the field of view has some pretty serious distortion going on, and the outer 10% is out of focus regardless of diopter setting. It's usable. It's not the worst 1x I've seen on an LPVO. But if you're expecting it to be just like a red dot, you will be gravely disappointed. Field of view is too small and distorted and the illumination just isn't bright enough to "pop" like a real red dot. You can train around it but it will always be slower and more difficult to use.
The claimed field of view at 1x is 363.3 mrad, which is above average for a 1-6x LPVO. However, the outer ring of the field of view is distorted and out of focus at 1x, so the usable field of view is more like 290 mrad, which is pretty poor for any LPVO on 1x. The field of view on 6x is only about 56 mrad, below average for a 1-6x.
The adjustments are described as 1/2 MOA. They are an awful lot more than that. I estimate that they're close to 0.2 mrad. This isn't a bad thing. I have a strong preference for mrad/mrad. I wish the specs had the correct information.
The eye relief is more than the claimed 93mm. I used a mount with 2" of forward offset and still had to put the mount so far forward that its base is half on the upper receiver and half on the handguard in order to see through it when shooting NTCH. That may be part of why I had so much trouble getting it zeroed. Maybe it's my eyeglasses. But if you shoot NTCH you're going to have to find a mount with at least 3" of forward offset, and those are rare. ADM used to sell one that cost two and a half times what I paid for the scope and there aren't many other choices. If you don't shoot NTCH you may not care.
Positives:
It appears to be a true 1x. However, it has a very wide range of diopter adjustment available, and if you rotate the ocular in either direction you will see the magnification increase and decrease as the focus changes. For me, for my eyes, I got true 1x when I set it to be in focus at 25 yards. Your mileage may vary.
Glass quality is good, with excellent sharpness and no chromatic aberration at all that I can detect on high contrast targets. Image quality at 6x is excellent, very flat, very crisp, with good color fidelity.
The adjustments track repeatably. They're a lot closer to 3/4 MOA than the stated 1/2 MOA, but they did track repeatably and return to zero once I figured that out. The clicks are very tactile and audible. I never had to guess how many clicks I was getting. I saw no signs of backlash.
Low profile capped turrets are always a plus.
The reticle is simple and well thought out. The dot in the center is 1 MOA at 6x, which is very usable and very preferable to some giant obstructive center dots I've seen. At 1x it's about six MOA, because this is a second focal plane scope. 6 MOA is large. I have a preference for mrad/mrad, and would have preferred the ring portion to have an inner diameter of 10 mrad and an outer diameter of 12 mrad, which would take a little of the guesswork about range estimation and holds, but I understand that it's a personal preference. The reticle does not seem to be intended for range estimation or holdovers, and that's okay.
It is lighter than average for a 1-6x24 scope on a 30mm tube.
Metal finish looks decent so far.
All in all I don't think it's terrible. At the same time I wish I'd gone with a scope that had a fiberoptic reticle instead. And about an inch and a half less eye relief.
Dark image at 6x.
No intermittent-off position for illumination, no motion activation.
The red illumination isn't daylight bright. It's barely daylight visible. It's sufficient to give you some contrast when aiming into an area that's partially in direct sunlight and partially in dark shadow. It's just enough illumination to be visibly red. It looks better at an indoor range. It's very usable indoors and suitable for a home defense carbine.
The blue illumination is very dim. It is so dim that when I was zeroing it at an indoor range I thought it broke, but no, it's just so dim that indoor lighting washed it out completely and made the blue color invisible. It's useless. I have no idea why they bothered with it. A properly selected green LED would have made it enormously more conspicuous and usable, in my opinion.
If anyone from Konus reads this, I know that this setup most likely has either two separate emitters or a single flush mount LED that can emit either red or blue. You might want to consider going with just a single LED. Watt of input power for watt of input power, a green LED is under almost all circumstances more visible to the human eye than red. Maybe speak to the engineers about swapping in a premium resonant-cavity or point-source LED module for illumination. Several manufacturers offer high-intensity LEDs in surface mount packages already designed for use in optical sights. It should be a simple 1:1 swap.
The 1x is usable for fast work in close, but the outer 20% or so of the field of view has some pretty serious distortion going on, and the outer 10% is out of focus regardless of diopter setting. It's usable. It's not the worst 1x I've seen on an LPVO. But if you're expecting it to be just like a red dot, you will be gravely disappointed. Field of view is too small and distorted and the illumination just isn't bright enough to "pop" like a real red dot. You can train around it but it will always be slower and more difficult to use.
The claimed field of view at 1x is 363.3 mrad, which is above average for a 1-6x LPVO. However, the outer ring of the field of view is distorted and out of focus at 1x, so the usable field of view is more like 290 mrad, which is pretty poor for any LPVO on 1x. The field of view on 6x is only about 56 mrad, below average for a 1-6x.
The adjustments are described as 1/2 MOA. They are an awful lot more than that. I estimate that they're close to 0.2 mrad. This isn't a bad thing. I have a strong preference for mrad/mrad. I wish the specs had the correct information.
The eye relief is more than the claimed 93mm. I used a mount with 2" of forward offset and still had to put the mount so far forward that its base is half on the upper receiver and half on the handguard in order to see through it when shooting NTCH. That may be part of why I had so much trouble getting it zeroed. Maybe it's my eyeglasses. But if you shoot NTCH you're going to have to find a mount with at least 3" of forward offset, and those are rare. ADM used to sell one that cost two and a half times what I paid for the scope and there aren't many other choices. If you don't shoot NTCH you may not care.
Positives:
It appears to be a true 1x. However, it has a very wide range of diopter adjustment available, and if you rotate the ocular in either direction you will see the magnification increase and decrease as the focus changes. For me, for my eyes, I got true 1x when I set it to be in focus at 25 yards. Your mileage may vary.
Glass quality is good, with excellent sharpness and no chromatic aberration at all that I can detect on high contrast targets. Image quality at 6x is excellent, very flat, very crisp, with good color fidelity.
The adjustments track repeatably. They're a lot closer to 3/4 MOA than the stated 1/2 MOA, but they did track repeatably and return to zero once I figured that out. The clicks are very tactile and audible. I never had to guess how many clicks I was getting. I saw no signs of backlash.
Low profile capped turrets are always a plus.
The reticle is simple and well thought out. The dot in the center is 1 MOA at 6x, which is very usable and very preferable to some giant obstructive center dots I've seen. At 1x it's about six MOA, because this is a second focal plane scope. 6 MOA is large. I have a preference for mrad/mrad, and would have preferred the ring portion to have an inner diameter of 10 mrad and an outer diameter of 12 mrad, which would take a little of the guesswork about range estimation and holds, but I understand that it's a personal preference. The reticle does not seem to be intended for range estimation or holdovers, and that's okay.
It is lighter than average for a 1-6x24 scope on a 30mm tube.
Metal finish looks decent so far.
All in all I don't think it's terrible. At the same time I wish I'd gone with a scope that had a fiberoptic reticle instead. And about an inch and a half less eye relief.
Pros:
- good glass, true 1x
Cons:
- mediocre illumination, coarse adjustments, poor FOV, poor 1x, eye relief so long that mounting it was awkward
Best Used for:
- .22 AR15 trainer
Would Recommend:
No