kjd wrote:kjd wrote:Adam have you used both side by side? In low light? What's the reasons you say the Stac has better optics than the SHV?
Sorry mate you have just made my ears prick up and having a look at that scope it seems very good. I just wanted to know how you came to that conclusion.
The reviews seem quite good on the STAC
I had a look through the SHV at the Shot Show before going back to the Hunters Element stuff across the way and whilst it is good, it is clearly built to a price to compete with the Bushnell pseudo tacticool scopes in the $1000 price bracket for the US market.
I didn't rate the glass as being of the same quality as the Sightron S-TAC which is one of two scopes sold by Sightron that have HD glass. Before you think the S-TAC is a tactical scope, think again. It is a butch target scope, slightly better turret feel than the regular SIII, but still with the tall turrets and still without a hard bottom (ie. Zero Stop).
Try this logic? If people hold the regular SIII image quality to be the equal of a Nightforce NXS (which does seem to be a matter of consensus across the shooting community). And according to Sightron the S-TAC has better glass than the SIII, and according to Nighforce the SHV is aimed at a budget that is not up to the performance of the NXS. Then logically the S-TAC is going to offer a better image than the SHV.
To be sure I would want to put one beside the other and have a good solid look, but I will place my money on the Sightron (as I did).
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