Hawke Help with my scope choice

[Fletchdl]

Im 76 years young and shoot bench rest at 50 ft and 25 ft and 50 ft. I can not seem to find a scope that is clear i have a hawke advantage 30 6-24x50 that pretty good but still not clear.

 

[pan60]

@Fletchdl
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I have a Hawke and I think its good but it is no were near any off my Athlon score I would look at those Athlon line up but that just my two cents on it.

 

[Playingdead]

Larger primary and tube will help. I really like discovery for the brightness.

My next one for the NRL22 rimfire

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I have two of these very bright and clear for the cost

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I just never go full magnification and the stay really clear. For the price they are good.

Athlon would be my choice for what you are shootin. Smaller tube but super clear and bright

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[JungleShooter]

Im 76 years young and shoot bench rest at 50 ft and 25 ft and 50 ft. I can not seem to find a scope that is clear i have a hawke advantage 30 6-24x50 that pretty good but still not clear.

Fletch, welcome to the HAM Community.
This is a good place to get info and help — and offer it to others.

Give us a bit more info on what is important to you, and we'll come up with some suggestions that will get you the right scope for your requirements, not just: "I have such and such scope, it's great!"


➊ Price range
➋ Magnification:
at least ...x at the bottom end or lower,
at least ...x at the top end or higher
➌ What is the minimum parallax that you are OK with? 20y, 15y, 10y?
➍ SFP or FFP?

➎ What kind of reticle would you NOT want?
▪︎simple crosshairs
▪︎BDC
▪︎gridded reticle
▪︎really thin
▪︎really thick
▪︎FFP: lacking thick outside posts
▪︎with numbers
▪︎fully illuminated

➏ Is both MIL or MOA OK, or do you have a strong preference?


➐ When you say, "the scope is not clear" — can you describe a bit more WHAT you want to see that you don't see?


➑ Is the max. elevation adjustment important to you?
➒ Is weight or length an issue?


Your options are probably massive (unless your requirements sound like: "max. 200$, Japan-glass clear, 3-30x magnification, 18oz light").


Cheers,

Matthias

 

[Fletchdl]

Thank you for answering my post. 16 yds is 50 ft. The sight picture is cloudy and i feel the target can be bigger. SFP i like and weight and size are not a problem. I have a wiehrauch hw100x in .177. Primarily shoot benchrest

 

[JungleShooter]

Thank you for answering my post. 16 yds is 50 ft. The sight picture is cloudy and i feel the target can be bigger. SFP i like and weight and size are not a problem. I have a wiehrauch hw100x in .177. Primarily shoot benchrest

OK, I'll try to give you some pointers — but without a stated budget and some of the other details — this is hard to do.


SHOOTING SCENARIO:
⭓Benchrest ➔ no weight and size requirements
⭓16y ➔ really short range, requires a close min. parallax


SCOPE YOU HAVE:
Hawke Vantage HD 30 6-24x50 SFP (c. $440)


YOU WANT/LACK:
🅐 "I cannot seem to find a scope that is clear; I have a Hawke Vantage that pretty good but still not clear." "The sight picture is cloudy."
🅑 "I feel the target can be bigger."



OPTIONS:
🅐 You wanting a clearer, less cloudy scope either means:
▪︎ you have gotten a lemon, an unusually poorly manufacturered Vantage scope.
▪︎ Or your clarity requirements are quite high, and that you will need to spend a good amount of money to get up to the next level of glass quality.

Some higher quality scopes in the magnification range you have right now (6-24x or 5-25x or 4-24x), in SFP, with 10/15y parallax, and exposed turrets:

⭓Athlon Ares HLR 4-24x50 SFP
$950-1060

⭓Hawke Frontier 30 SF 4-24x50 SFP (No. 18431)
$700-900
(Frontier is Hawke's flagship series)

⭓Maven RS.5 4-24x50 SFP
$1400

⭓Trijicon Tenmile 4-24x50 SFP
$900-1890

⭓Athlon Heras SPR 6-24x56 SFP
$650-750

———————————

➧ You have more options if you're OK with an FFP scope:
⭓Tract Toric UHD 34mm 4-25x50 FFP
$1490

⭓Element Titan 5-25x56 FFP
$800

⭓Vortex Strike Eagle 5-25x56 FFP
$700-800



🅑 You wanting a larger magnification than 24x for such a short range is somewhat surprising — but we all have our requirements.

⭓Hawke Frontier 30 SP 5-30x56 SFP (No. 18441)
$740-950

⭓Athlon Heras 15-60x56 SFP
$780-880

⭓Athlon Ares ETR Gen. 2 15-60x56 SFP
$1300-1560

⭓Sightron S6 (SVI) 6-48x56 SFP
$1500-1600

⭓Trijicon Tenmile 5-30x56 SFP
$1800-2800



⭓You might also look at Sightron's offerings of higher magnification target scopes and fixed magnification scopes. I don't have them in my Scopes Specs Tables...


Happy scope shopping!

Matthias