Played with and mounted the Brownells scope. Looks like a typical Japanese OEM scope in this class. Has a lot of the same features that everyone else who starts their own scope company/line and is SFP.
Just some feedback:
It does have a built in throw lever - big plus IMO
Turrets are big and easy and in .1 mil clicks-
Illumination is pretty bright and only on the aiming dot
Mag Adjustment is smooth and the Mag range is pretty good, about 190° with the built in throw lever from 4 o'clock to 8 o'clock
Diopter is has good adjustment
Glass is nice and clean
Reticle is mil and crisp (10mil) with hashes at every .5 mil.
It tracks pretty well, I put it on a bench and ran it up 10mils repeatedly and down several times and it came back to within .1 mil...so close that I can't tell if the bench jiggled or it was off a tiny bit. It's not like you'll ever need this in an LPVO but a package that can track well means it's pretty good.
Good eyebox
Can adjust the Dipter and image the reticle and scene to eliminate most parallax. Hard to do in 1x in these packages for this price range. Even expensive scopes can have a hard time with this. Still some there but not a hugely noticeable issue. It's almost impossible to eliminate parallax in VP Optics unless you have a side focus, and LPVOs' only focus is the diopter..
I wish the illumination went to 10 or 12 to make it brighter
The Elevation turret is marked in reverse - Says bullet impact Up is CW, and numbered L to R. But in real life it's still CCW like every other scope.
I'll have to write Brownells on that one. They may have meant to spec it to say "Reticle Up" So just ignore the whole EL turret except for the mil marks. The Windage turret is just fine
The mag range goes CCW, so it's a little different than most scopes I have but I do have one or two that turn CCW -
Diopter is a little too easy to turn...with a cap on and open you can easily move it; just pay attention
Has pretty clean edge, looks like it has a little chromatic aberrations but it's typical with most of these scopes. Compared to a Credo and an SCO, it has about the same CA as the Credo. The edge black is good, but has some light leakage through the black when illum is on from the front. No biggie because you have to stick it up to your eye and 99% of people out there don't really GAS anyway.
It's a lot like the Trijicon Credo, almost the same from the erector back. Eyepiece is the same size. Front is a little longer which is expected for an extra 2x and same price range. It has all the good stuff a quality Japanese scope has. I'll probably get another one. I still have to zero it and get my Mil target and see how well the reticle matches up. FYI, anytime you zero a SFP scope, you do it on the highest mag and all your reticle use should be on the highest mag.
Mag rotation is CCW
EL Turret
On a bench
On a gun
Reticle
