Author: Roy Finn
Subject: A plea to Bushnell for the 4500/3500 scopes
Posted: April/13/2015 at 00:18
....and I would like your feedback please good and bad to see if we can change this current plague of crappy low light reticles. I recently went to a LGS and took a look at Bushnell's new 4500 2.5-10 x 40 which happens to be my favorite model. They put newly designed turrets that are slightly taller than the previous ones and they are nice and solid, appear to made od some type of steel (hopefully SS) and according to Bushnell's website they are zero resettable. All good so far. Now I decide to look through it and damn it, the same duplex reticle as previous models, which in my opinion stink in low light. So I'm thinking maybe, just maybe if enough people here share my opinion, maybe we collectively can get them to offer this otherwise great scope with a reticle that allow their optics to work to their fullest potential. I'm thinking, and this is where I'd like as many opinions as I can get, to give them the message that their duplex reticle is fine for punching holes in paper, but stops being a good aiming device due to the thinnest of the standard duplex reticle. Anyone who hunts whitetails like myself, likes to be able to see a reticle especially if you hunt pines or any other thick areas that are darker than their surrounding open areas. These 4500's and the previous marked 4200's have great optics that are handicapped by a reticle that all but disappears in these dark areas that are usually leading from daytime bedding areas to evening feeding areas. This all goes w/o saying. So Bushnell, please give us a reticle we can see as some of us with aging eyesight could use a thicker reticle anyway. Oh, and while your at it, add a half inch or so of eye relief because the latest popular trend is lighter rifles that naturally kick harder, so 3.75 inches of eye relief would really be appreciated too. You were able to do it with your fantastic 6500 series of scopes so why not continue the positive trend.
Please help me out my OpticsTalk friends as maybe, just maybe they'll listen if enough folks express a similar opinion to mine on how to vastly improve one of the best models in their entire lineup.
Sincerely,
Roy Finn
PS. Some years ago Bushnell made this reticle, which is basically the same as the Firefly but without the glowing material painted on the reticle. Not a bad starting point, IMO.
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Edited by Roy Finn - 20 hours 36 minutes ago at 00:24
Subject: A plea to Bushnell for the 4500/3500 scopes
Posted: April/13/2015 at 00:18
....and I would like your feedback please good and bad to see if we can change this current plague of crappy low light reticles. I recently went to a LGS and took a look at Bushnell's new 4500 2.5-10 x 40 which happens to be my favorite model. They put newly designed turrets that are slightly taller than the previous ones and they are nice and solid, appear to made od some type of steel (hopefully SS) and according to Bushnell's website they are zero resettable. All good so far. Now I decide to look through it and damn it, the same duplex reticle as previous models, which in my opinion stink in low light. So I'm thinking maybe, just maybe if enough people here share my opinion, maybe we collectively can get them to offer this otherwise great scope with a reticle that allow their optics to work to their fullest potential. I'm thinking, and this is where I'd like as many opinions as I can get, to give them the message that their duplex reticle is fine for punching holes in paper, but stops being a good aiming device due to the thinnest of the standard duplex reticle. Anyone who hunts whitetails like myself, likes to be able to see a reticle especially if you hunt pines or any other thick areas that are darker than their surrounding open areas. These 4500's and the previous marked 4200's have great optics that are handicapped by a reticle that all but disappears in these dark areas that are usually leading from daytime bedding areas to evening feeding areas. This all goes w/o saying. So Bushnell, please give us a reticle we can see as some of us with aging eyesight could use a thicker reticle anyway. Oh, and while your at it, add a half inch or so of eye relief because the latest popular trend is lighter rifles that naturally kick harder, so 3.75 inches of eye relief would really be appreciated too. You were able to do it with your fantastic 6500 series of scopes so why not continue the positive trend.
Please help me out my OpticsTalk friends as maybe, just maybe they'll listen if enough folks express a similar opinion to mine on how to vastly improve one of the best models in their entire lineup.
Sincerely,
Roy Finn
PS. Some years ago Bushnell made this reticle, which is basically the same as the Firefly but without the glowing material painted on the reticle. Not a bad starting point, IMO.
Edited by Roy Finn - 20 hours 36 minutes ago at 00:24