Nikon Monarch 4-16x42 Side Focus Scope with Bullet Drop Compensator, Matte
The new 4-16x42 scope has all the power necessary for long range varmints, yet a big enough field of view at the low end for close-quarter big game hunting. This versatile riflescope will get you into proper focus easier than ever before, while the new Monarch eye box provides four inches of constant eye relief for comfortable shooting in the field or on the bench. It's also an ideal choice for the combination varmint/big game rifle.
Nikon Monarch 4-16x42 Side Focus Scope:
- Quick-focus eyepiece
- Locking side focus parallax adjustment
- New Monarch eye box
- 4 inches of constant eye relief
- Features bullet drop compensator
- Matte design
I previously had a Nikon scope 3x9 on my Browning 270 BAR and have shot many deer using it. I now only trophy hunt and was haveing trouble judging antler mass at greater than 150 yards. I hunt from a shooting house with a bench rest and bags on a powerline and have virtually limitless shooting range with serveral creek crossings in view. Ive had the scope on for about a month and durring peak rut in GA and have loved the clarity and ability to really zoom in close to inspect the rack. Have passed several nice bucks that i would have "ground checked". This is allowing me save marginal bucks for next year.Also I took my 14 year old nephew who had never shot a rifle with a scope before or at a live animal. After much conversation, looking through the scope at small distant objects while holding steady and shot placement discussion, I let him take a shot at a doe that stepped out on the powerline. He dropped her in her tracks at 210 yards according to my range finder with a perfect shot. He has done the same thing a second time at 150 and now we are trying to get him a nice buck. I believe the ability to bring the animal up close and fill up the view enabled him to do this.I have yet to try the BDC part of the scope. After the season is out and I can afford about $150 (or 3 boxes of shells LOL) I am going to try it out at longer distances for reliability at 3-500 yards. I have shot coyotes at 350 straight on with the old scope by holding up between thir ears. I hope to eliminate this issue with this scope.One more added note. I recently was crossing a homemade wooden creek bridge early one morning and it was slippery. I fell slamming the scope down full weight onto the wood with my body on top. it nicked the scope paint on a nail head and I was distrought and had no confidence in the accuracy of the weapon now, so I left and did not hunt and went straight to a distant field to check the rifle. MUCH to my surprise the rife was still dead on I returned hunting that afternoon. If it can take that, it can hold zero with the pounding of ammo going off. I have never had a nikon scope fail to hold zero. Thats why I purchased another one.The only down side if I had to name one is that at full zoom, it looks less clear, but that is the nature of most every high magnification scope I have seen. I wish it could have been a little cheaper but I have found you actually do get what you pay for when it comes to scopes.
$449.95
At Walmart on 4-30-2012.