Originally Posted by
Palehorse
Mine must have been a lemon, but fruit from the product tree nonetheless (lenses coated incorrectly?).
I had deer come past, one at 7:15 and another at 7:30, sunrise around 7:16, and I could not make it out or see the cross hairs.
Could not see another one at 4:15 p.m., and sunset was 5:30. I could see the crosshairs, but the deer did not contrast with the leaf cover.
Switched to an old Bushnell Banner in the gunsafe for the rest of the hunt.
My Monarch is an older UCC version. Have not used one of the newer ones.
The Redfield is just stunningly clear. But then so is the $50 dollar Bushnell.
Yeah, something was definitely going on. I have had 4 or 5 of the 3-9's over the years and 2 of the 4.5-14's and none of them have been like that. They have had the best glass out of any of the sub $400 scopes I've tested. The only one that's beat it in the $400-600 price range I've seen is the Conquest and it's very small differences glass wise between it and the FFII's.
I'd actually like to replace my current Nikons with a FFII. If I find a good deal on a used FFII I'm going to pick it up and sell off one of the Monarchs I have.
Burris probably would have taken care of you if you'd called them.
The one time I did have an issue with one, I thought it had an issue, but realized afterwards the issue wasn't really an issue, and something they all do. I'd just called to ask Burris about if it was normal, and they asked me to send it so they could check it out. Anyway, this was right out of the box. I called them up, and they told me to send it in and paid shipping both ways. I had it back in under two weeks and it still did it which made me realize I needed to look into this on the other scopes. All of the others also did this, only this time there was a small spec of dirt or something you could see internally if you held the scope up to the sky. I called them back and asked if them how they would like to handle it. They paid for me to ship it back again and this time they sent me a brand new scope. I'd sent in one with the plex reticle, and they replaced it with the ballistic plex reticle that sells for $100 more. I couldn't have been happier. After this experience it sold me on their service. At least they paid for shipping both ways. I'd say this put them ahead of Leupold in my experience as Leupold has always at least made me pay shipping to them on the first time. After that if they send it back and it isn't fixed they have paid for the return shipping on the second trip, but with Burris they payed it on both trips.
Knowing that it's a great product, and they are this willing to take care of me for something that isn't even a issue at first, and just something that I was wondering about sold me on them. When it came back and did have a small issue, to see how fast they were to replace it for me, made me even happier. I just don't think you can beat a company like this.