Customer Reviews
Perfect for my air rifle
Pretty solid so far, I’m happy with it. I’ll update if anything changes, but it’s looking good at the moment.
I ordered this scope for a 22LR and have to say I am not impressed with the glass. I have a fixed magnification from this brand that is a decent scope for the price but this one needs improvement. I know it is under 100 bucks so I don't expect it to be the quality of a much more expensive scope but I should be able to focus on something around 125 yards. I played around with this thing for about 15 minutes and although the glass is acceptable at closer ranges when you try to go out beyond 75 yards the quality diminishes. The eye relief is another issue I had with it. It does have some positives going for it thought like the turrets which are resettable to zero and I do like the illuminated reticle. It also comes with a screw in sunshade which is nice. That being said if I cant see clearly out to 100 yards its not going to work for me. I think Discoveryopt has the potential to make some quality budget scopes but this one is lacking in my opinion.
First, this is a sub$100 scope. So it's not going to be like a $500+ dollar scope. Not as sharp of a view. Not as crisp or repeatable on the settings. Second focal plane, not first. It's also a 44mm not a 50mm + objective.But, to say an airgun scope can't hold up to firearm recoil! Springer airguns have far worse recoil, and a reverse recoil that can destroy even some of the most expensive scopes for firearms. I think the only draw back to this scope on a firearm is the short eye relief. Just remember this if you are ordering this scope for a 308 or 30-06. On a 5.56 or 243 it can still be a great scope, and of course for rim fires. The short eye relief may be a problem on airguns 45 cal and up too. For a smaller, sfp, scope it's a great value.
This seems to be an okay value scope. I believe this scope is deliberately creating consumer confusion. This 4-16 scope mostly appears to be an air rifle scope, but then the scope's name, marketing, and product page are implying and insinuating that this scope can be used on normal firearms. It's very unclear and so I do not recommend that you buy this scope.I'm just going to paste some quotes from the Amazon product page:"Upgraded Shockproof: DISCOVERYOPT MS series stands for Magnum Shockproof, the MS 4-16x42 rifle scope is specially upgraded for high shock resistance. It can be perfectly suitable for large-caliber and high-recoil rifles such as spring-piston air rifles. Always maintain its zero and performance after thousands of shots.""MS Series Stands for Magnum Shockproof""Rated for break barreled air rifles and shockproof up to .50BMG"So the scope is "perfectly suitable for large-caliber and high-recoil rifles such as spring-piston air rifles" and it's "Rated for break barreled air rifles" but then it says "shockproof up to .50BMG" so which one is it? All of the STRONG language about what this scope is rated for, references air rifles. But then this strange term "shockproof" goes up to .50BMG which is an insanely large caliber. What does "shockproof" mean? That the scope can be mounted to a 50BMG and retain zero? Or does "shockproof" mean something else?I believe that this product is deliberately creating consumer confusion by not clearly communicating what this scope can be used for. I believe that customers will buy this scope believing that they can mount this on real firearms. If the customer encounters an issue with this scope, I believe that this manufacturer could try to argue that "this is listed an air rifle scope" because most of the language, and the presence of a pellet holder, indicates that this is an air rifle scope. Why would someone buy a scope with a pellet holder on it and mount it to a 50BMG rifle?With all of that being said, I mounted it to a 22LR rifle which is the closest thing I have to an air rifle. I have not fired with the scope mounted yet but I got a chance to bore-sight it with a laser bore sighter.The glass in the scope seems somewhat low quality. As you can see in the photo, there is some blurring around the edges, and the black color of the paper targets appears blue. I couldn't get a nice satisfying comfortable picture in my eye while I was at the range.The sharpness in real life is better than shown my phone picture. The numbers on the target are pretty sharp, and the reticle lines also appear sharper in real life.The scope illumination is very low quality. Even the lowest brightness level is very bright, and the illumination is not clean, all the way around the edge of the sight picture is bright and lit up, and distracting when the illumination turns on.If this scope were clearly advertised as an air rifle scope, and the hints of this being a real rifle scope were removed, then I would give this product more stars.If this scope is a real rifle scope, then the description needs to be updated to articulate that the scope can be mounted and shot on real rifles (list many calibers so people can feel confident that different guns are tested and guaranteed to work) and expected to hold zero. Just plainly say in your product page which calibers your scope is rated for.If this scope ever decides what it is and is advertised clearly, maybe I will update the review. In the mean time, if you are looking for a real rifle scope, I would recommend just going with Vortex.
