Reviews & Ratings for Vector Optics Taurus 5-30x56mm FFP Rifle Scope — 3 reviews — Page 1

Trust me when I say this is the Best Buy of the year. I have been ramping up my 22 shooting to start thinking about competition shooting. I have bought several scopes in the last couple of months. This by far is one of the best Glass. The glass in the thing is absolutely amazing edge edge doesn’t give it justice. It is crystal clear With that said, I do like my Arkins features turret size better but you will not find a clear scope for this price range. I’m talking the whole field of magnification absolutely unbelievable for what I paid for it. Lifetime warranty, German Glass

This scope boasts some amazing eye relief. When looking through it properly (~3-4 inches), the scope housing can nearly vanish from your view, providing a very unobstructed total sight picture. I believe this is due to the unconventional shape of tube at the eyepiece area.

Power ring is smooth and silky, quick focus eyepiece is at JUST the right rigidity for ease of adjustment.

Glass quality is of course very good, the manufacturer says the glass is HD from Schott. Nobody can verify the truth of that, but it's much better than other scopes of this price point, that's for sure.

Turrets have good audible clicks and track nicely, not as tactile as those on more expensive scopes, but quite decent. They have their push down locking feature so they never get knocked off adjustment. It comes with a whole other set of bronze/FDE turrets that are 0.1mrad per click. No zero stop, but turrets are resettable to zero. Maybe that's why it's inexpensive?

Illumination has a nice range of brightness levels. The floating dot in the center of the reticle is what's illuminated. The reticle is clean and efficient, with a 0.1 mil center, it appears quite similar to the Nightforce Mil-R F1 reticle with minor differences, such as a floating center dot. However, at 5x it's very thin. At 8x+ it's at a good thickness for me.

The honeycomb sunshade it comes with is very nice but I also wanted a more traditional sunshade with the correct threading. After looking all over I decided to just email Vect...
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