NEW line of Scopes - OSPREY INTERNATIONAL

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Silverado6x6 said:
I was surprised to learn that Leatherwood scopes were made in china.

I just cannot put my life out on the limb for anything from China.

If money wasn't an issue I would buy this:
http://swfa.com/Zeiss-6-24x72-SAM-Tactical-Hensoldt-Telescopic-34mm-Sight-P41084.aspx

Its only $12,000
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You know China has our best interests at heart and they have put their best efforts into building a quality product in the Osprey rifle scope. Since FalloutMike has had such good luck, I am replacing all of my scopes with Ospreys, selling the others on e-bay and buying more rifles and balancing the money enough to put Ospreys on them. I cannot wait to show the guys at my hunting camp. I just need to scan all those receipts into my computer so as not to lose them, but maybe they won't mind if one is missing. What am I talking about. They are Chinese made Osprey rifle scoopes, they will never break. That is what I am going to do.
 
Hey 6x6 save your money. U just need to step up to the $250 dollar osprey. I could see getting that zeiss over the $150 model. Their $250 model is an entirely different beast though.
 
Honestly for the money I would have to stick with what I have on almost everything and thats the Leupold. I can get nearly the same quality if not a better value with Nikon, and believe it or not the Bushnell high end series have a fairly good reputation.
 
Yep, maybe I will go with the 250 model on everything. That's the ticket. I think I will start the group Team Osprey. Anybody want to join?
 
Well you know Fallout Mike, that is something important to me to as I frequently have that happen to my rifles and scopes. Why just the other day I left my Hensoldt on the road and an 18 wheeler hit it and it went to pieces. I was awfully disappointed that a scope that costs that much broke when run over by a truck. I called service and they said it was not covered for that abuse. Funny, I thought a scope for that much money was indestructible. So for me, its like stickin' with the pig, I going to stick with Osprey. For a fraction of the money they can do what no other scope can do and seeing how I have my scopes get run over by trucks all the time I just need the Osprey. It must be the USA made 3M epoxies they use.
 
Silverado6x6 said:
Honestly for the money I would have to stick with what I have on almost everything and thats the Leupold. I can get nearly the same quality if not a better value with Nikon, and believe it or not the Bushnell high end series have a fairly good reputation.
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Leupold. Try running over a Leupold 7 times.
 
With a tank at that. Although I will admit it was a small tank. I mean, I dont have a german landkreuzer P. 1500 monster that is 42 meters long, weighs 1500 tons and has a crew of 100 on board. But still, it got ran over by a small tank and it was as if nothing happened.
 
fallout mike said:
With a tank at that. Although I will admit it was a small tank. I mean, I dont have a german landkreuzer P. 1500 monster that is 42 meters long, weighs 1500 tons and has a crew of 100 on board. But still, it got ran over by a small tank and it was as if nothing happened.
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Wow. I am going to inventory my rifles now and put my order in today.
 
Just made me think. If Osprey had been making scopes then, I bet they would have ordered some to put on that tank.
 
I can see it now, an Osprey scope on every corner of the tank and one mounted on that huge gun. Before long, the whole German army would have had one mounted on every sniper rifle and then that farcical propagandizing movie portraying the soviet sniper getting the German sniper could never have happened.
 
Do you guys think the Osprey 10-40x50 Illuminated Rangefinder Reticle 30mm Tube Tactical Riflescope would be a good choice to put on a Taurus Circuit Judge?
Mainly a SHTF zombie gun.
 
Do it. I ain't never seen a zombie laugh before, and I'd like to before I get eaten.

fallout mike said:
an 18 wheeler ran over mine 7 times
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But did it run the scope over with seven wheels, or did the entire truck run over it seven times? Details, man, details! ;)
 
$250 Osprey

Hey Mike if you pay for Osprey $250 it must be from jewelry store with gold coated turrets- must be looking good, in the right place the most expensive
model goes for $149.99. Guess just the matter of a gold coating.
 
The entire truck drove over it 7 times before the German landkreuzer P.1500 monster drove over it. I thought that the tank scratched it but it was just a small piece of track tread from the German landkreuzer P.1500 monster.
 
I know this thread is very old but it came up when I Googled Osprey & after reading through all of it there wasn't much useful info in it so I would like to add:

I didn't buy the Osprey but I tried the NOS instead(1 x ZOS 10-40x50ESF IR SWAT R19 MilDot Tactical Rifle Scope (ZOS50) =
$128.45). I really like it. this isn't a complaint but the rings that come with it doesn't fit the Weaver mount so I had to find 30mm rings locally. The glass seems very clear, no problems zeroing it, MOA clicks 1=1/8" seem right on, & the price is right. I was going to try the Osprey but this seemed like the same scope with a fee extras & cheaper so I got the NOS. I going to use it for a while but I will probably order more of them.
 
I gotta say that I'm a skeptic. Everyone is saying that it's good after 15rds, 40rds, 50rds. The question is, how is it after a case of 200rds of ammo? What about after 2000rds?
Can you zero it, take it off the rifle, do a drop test, and then put it back on and have a perfect or near-perfect return to zero?
How does the optic perform a box test? Are the adjustments accurate and reliable?
Is there any POA/POI shift with magnification change?
I have seen no information of this.


dgsamsoil said:
If I recall correctly, the "Tactical" models have 1/8 MOA adjustments, while the others had 1/4. Quite a few had 30mm tubes. They are certainly priced attractively for the features.
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Did they mention why they did that, or how much elevation adjustment they had in the turrets?
There is nothing tactical about 1/8 MOA adjustments. I don't know where people got the idea that it was a good thing to incorporate benchrest features into tactical-style scopes. Case in point of doing it wrong- CounterSniper.


carrottop432 said:
I bought one at the last gun show in my area just to give it a whirl and I have to say that I'm impressed so far. My 45-70 killed the BSA 3-9x40 that was on it, so I replaced it with the Osprey 4-16x50 and fired 20 rounds with it. I then purchased an Armalite AR-50 (which fires the BMG) and didn't have a scope for it, so I threw the Osprey on top and have fired 15 rounds so far and she's still working fine. My only complaint is that the knobs to adjust the scope don't always want to work. Usually pecking on them prior to turning them seems to do the trick.
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If the knobs don't always want to adjust, and you have to "peck" them to work, that means it's broken or just junk. Turrets should and must be able to be adjusted without any abnormal motions or actions. Sounds like the scope is not very shock resistant.


hunttheevil said:
I received said scope today. It come packages with rings as advertised. I mounted it on my DPMS LR308-AP4. I will have to say the glass looks good. Better than my Nikon Protaff and dang near as good as my Leupold VX-III.
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They use Japanese glass, and so does Nikon and Leupold. That's why there's a similarity. The difference is that Nikon and Leupold have proven durability and repeatability.
 
SentinelStrategic said:
I gotta say that I'm a skeptic. Everyone is saying that it's good after 15rds, 40rds, 50rds. The question is, how is it after a case of 200rds of ammo? I put about 250 through the rifle it was mounted to.
What about after 2000rds? I'll let you know if I'm still keeping track of this thread then or just PM & ask me.
Can you zero it, take it off the rifle, do a drop test, and then put it back on and have a perfect or near-perfect return to zero? You will have to test that for your self. I have no need of dropping it just to see if I can break it.
How does the optic perform a box test? The rifle I have it on doesn't have a load worked up for this type of test & the outdoor range probably isn't the best place to do it.
 Are the adjustments accurate and reliable? Yes
Is there any POA/POI shift with magnification change? I don't know if I changed it even at 25yd I used it on 40x.
I have seen no information of this.



Did they mention why they did that, or how much elevation adjustment they had in the turrets?
There is nothing tactical about 1/8 MOA adjustments. I don't know where people got the idea that it was a good thing to incorporate benchrest features into tactical-style scopes. Case in point of doing it wrong- CounterSniper.
Tactical is just a catchy word used to sell. Since it has mil dots, lighted recitals, & there is a lot of info on the turrets to make adjustments quick "TACTICAL" sounds good.


If the knobs don't always want to adjust, and you have to "peck" them to work, that means it's broken or just junk. Turrets should and must be able to be adjusted without any abnormal motions or actions. Sounds like the scope is not very shock resistant. I didn't have this problem.



They use Japanese glass, and so does Nikon and Leupold. That's why there's a similarity. The difference is that Nikon and Leupold have proven durability and repeatability.
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I've had Nikon glass break.

I'm not even saying this is a great scope just trying to post what little I know about it to help the thread out. I'm going to hold out a while before buying another but if it keeps working well I will buy more.
 
Osprey International

YUP I'm new too...
No recomendations from me!! Just spent the last hour & a half reading thru this :banghead:
Good reading actually..
 
P.....O.....S.....! Save Up, Buy something [Anything] you'll be happy with, and you wont
have to make excuses when stuff starts to break or fall off your scope.
 
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