I have the 14x50 and like it a lot, but I’m not sure that the 5x30 wouldn’t have been a better choice for the gun I have it on. The very short eye relief requires some relearning and effort to overcome the aversion of literally resting your brow on the scope body. If you’re at all used to shooting scoped rifles with recoil, your brain will be screaming at you to not do that. Once you get over that, the FOV, and the bright and clear image are super impressive. That said, I’d be real honest with yourself on how much magnification you actually need. I had a chance to look through a 5x30 yesterday for the second time and was once again amazed by it. The long eye relief and huge ocular lens make the scope body almost disappear and combine with the FOV to make the experience quite a bit more immersive than even the 14x variant. Don’t get me wrong, I love the 14, but I think that in the particular use case I envisioned when I put the gun together that it went on, 5x magnification is enough especially when combined with the other attributes I mentioned. Had the shop I was visiting had the 5x30 with the reticle I want in stock yesterday, I’d have left with it and moved the 14x from the Wildcat to my Impact when I got home.
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