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Amazing Scope for the Price!
Style: 4-12x40mm BDC Long Range
Amazing Scope for the Price! Clear Lens, very accurate - 100 times better than any Vortex or Leupold Made in China! Wish Crimson Trace does a better job on Reticle Options for BDC and Wind Compensation!!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2023 by Vahagn
Style: 4-12x40mm BDC Long Range
Mounted this optic to the tool it is designed for and have had zero problems so far. It is beefy and rugged in appearance. This scope has many features of more expensive products and is presented at an affordable price point. You can spend less on optics but you will not receive the features and warr
anty of much higher priced glass. I have had the opportunity to use this optic out to 6oo yards and found that it will perform as advertised if you match the projectile gr to what the scope was calibrated for. I also use a Ballistic calculator in conjunction and found that the BDC can be very accurate without adjusting the POA using the turret knobs (both accurate). From 100 yd zero adjusted once for 600 yd "dope" and was making easy hits on an 10" target. Group spread was usable and fine tuning for other variables can be easily made to tighten them up if needed. It is new so I cannot comment on it's longevity, but I think Crimson Trace has a place in the market...jusssayin
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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021 by Tbone
Style: 3-9x40mm BDC
I mounted the CT Hardline 3x9x40 .223 BDC scope on a Savage Model 11 .223. I used an outerimpact 0 moa picatinny rail as my based and Warne 500M rings. To level the scope I used the Wheeler bubble leveling system. At this time I’ve only bore sighted the scope. I was worried about the eye relief, but
it’s fantastic. Excited to get it to the range to sight it in. When comparing this scope to a friend’s mid-level Leupold 3x9x40, in glass clarity, the CT won hands down. I’m so impressed with the scope I’m looking at the CT Brushline Pro for my Model 70 .270 WSM.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2022 by btowns
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big surprise in qualty of this scope
Style: 4-16x42mm MR1-MOA
I needed an affordable scope for my new (to me) 17HMR. Once I picked a price point I found that there were a multitude of offerings to choose from, probably I suppose all made in the same factory in the Phillipines. The AO on this Crimson Trace sold me, I need that. Really amazed and well satisfied w
ith the performance and clarity. Resolves 17cal holes in the target at 100 yards.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2021 by Dave
Style: 4-16x42mm MR1-MOA
This is a great scope! I got the 4-16x42 hardline moa. The retical is crisp ,works great in low light, controls are smooth. The glass is top knotch, I payed 232 for mine and would not have been upset if I had payed 500. Get these while there cheap.
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2022 by aj_sarah09
Style: 4-12x40mm BDC Long Range
Scope is top notch
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2022 by Amazon Customer
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After 2 weeks of non-stop research process, it was selected among 4000 products.
Style: 3-12x42mm MR1-MIL
Good looking, accurate, Has the same features as $1000 and above scopes. Budget friendly, clear vision, life-time warranty. best one i ever owned. Cons: couldn’t find any sunshade for it.
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2021 by Reza zarifi
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The best SFP for 100 yards
Style: 4-12x40mm MILDOT
I’d tried few several different types of scopes but this one is excellent on clarity in 100 yards target.
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2021 by Rhom EL
Style: 4-16x42mm BDC
Good scope, .. cant wait to try it. could have used some better packing, (manuf. box placed in a bigger box/ w/no packing) luckily manuf. had plenty of padding in their box.
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2022 by 77 poncho
Style: 4-16x42mm BDC Long Range
This is a great budget scope. I’ve been needing an affordable scope for one of my precision 22LR trainers so I decided to try this one out. For the price point I wasn’t expecting a very high quality scope, but this thing is pretty impressive! The look and feel of the scope are better than I expected
and it performs great. I took this out to the range and put it through the paces and it did awesome. I really like how simple and easy it is to zero this scope. You make all of the adjustments necessary to get a good zero and then simply lift up the turret and turn it to “0” and let it back down again and ¡voila! Your zero is set! It doesn’t get any easier than that. The turrets have a good clean crisp click to them and they seem to index on the reference line very well even with a lot of dialing. I maxed out the elevation turret and then brought it back to zero and the zero point stayed true. The parallax works well also, though I do wish it would focus even closer (like 25 yards) for 22LR. However, since this scope doesn’t have very high power magnification, I was still able to get a clean view of targets that were closer than 50 yards. The view is also very clear on long range targets too. The zoom ring is a little bit stiff, but it turns smoothly and allows you to adjust the magnification with relative ease. If paired with a “throw lever” it could be even better. As for the reticle, this is my least favorite part of the scope, but that’s because I typically use MRAD scopes with very detailed first focal plane reticles. This one, however, is a more simple BDC reticle based on the .308. Since it is caliber specific, the sub tensions don’t work for 22LR, but I was well aware of that before I ordered this so I won’t hold that against it. I really do wish that there were windage sub tensions on the horizontal beam of the reticle for holding windage while shooting, but if you’re willing to dial both elevation and windage, then I works really well. Otherwise you would have to visually guess how much windage to hold since there are no reference points on the reticle. There was enough elevation adjustment in this scope after setting zero for me to still be able to dial up about 53 MOA, which would allow you to make a really long shot! (Depending on caliber of course. With a 22LR it’s only about 375 yards, but with my 6 Dasher that would be a 1525 yard shot!). However, the scope base on my 22LR is 40 MOA, so I am able to use almost all of the travel the elevation turret has. A 20 MOA base would take some of that useable travel away. Overall I think this is a great scope for the price, especially if you are putting it on a .308 like you’re supposed to. They do have several other models to chose from that are not caliber specific as well as a carbine BDC option for .223s. If you’re in the market for a high quality budget scope, I highly recommend on of these Crimson Trace Hardline models!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2021 by Ricks Munn Ricks Munn
Style: 4-16x42mm BDC Long Range
I usually use sights in the range of $80-$150 and they get the job done for my purposes. I never shoot in tough weather conditions and I never need to shoot more than 100 yards when hunting. Owning this crimson trace scope will far exceed my needs and I should never need more. I have not had the oppo
rtunity to shoot this scope at long range, but I will soon. In the meantime, I have looked down a 300+ yard straight away and the optics are crystal clear. The best thing for me is the parallax adjustment. I have never had a scope with parallax adjustment before and it is a game changer. It really is amazing. The focus clarity is amazing. I feel as though the zooming functionality is a little difficult to turn. If I want to take a shot at a slightly longer range than normal and I need to zoom in, it is not an easy task. I would like for it to be a little bit looser. This reticle is calibrated for .308 and I will not be using it for that purpose, so the pre-calibrated reticle won’t benefit me. I also do not shoot at long ranges or in tough conditions when hunting, so I will likely not frequently make use of the extra functionality like elevation/windage adjustment, but it all operates very smoothly. One thing I quite like is the adjustment knobs for sighting in are very easy to operate. Other scopes I have used I couldn’t notably make out how many clicks I made when turning the knobs, this scope is quite the opposite. I feel very comfortable sighting this scope in and getting an accurate number of clicks on the knobs. Overall for my hunting purposes I am extremely happy with this budget scope and it will definitely allow me to stress it’s capabilities on the range/make shots I used to never be able to.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2021 by Hairy Potter Hairy Potter
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A nice optic at a very good price, skip the BDC reticle and go for mil or moa MR1 reticle
Style: 4-16x42mm BDC Long Range
I'll start out with what I don't like, which are BDC reticles. While the idea is great the drops are made for one barrel length, velocity and climate. Outside of those very specific instances you are going to have to figure out what the DBC actually is for your rifle. And if you are going to do that,
or even just proof that the BDC does work for your set up, why not use a standard reticle with properly marked hash marks? I can't think of a single instance where a BDC is better than a mil dot or similar reticle. You can certainly make it work by figuring out your DOPE and where it corresponds to the BDC, but as Rick would say 'that is just building DOPE but with extra steps'. Now on to the good, the glass is very good. The adjustments are good, clear and repeatable. While I'd prefer locking adjustments, the pull system that CT uses is functional. Running box drills show the adjustments are true and repeatable. The ranging adjustment is very stiff, but that is better than too loose and being at 14 when you left it at 6. At about 3.5" the eye relief is pretty good and gives you good usability on large frame ARs and bolt guns while still being usable on standard ARs, though you will be better served with a cantilever mount there. The optic isn't a lightweight at just over 20 ounces, but it isn't a boat anchor either. More so with the overall footprint of 13.5" long. All in all I think CT has done a good job at making a very good optic in the important $500 optic range. Even more so because they can currently be found for a little more than half that price as I write this. As Amazon won't allow me to post a review of a rifle scope with a rifle in the image I'd only included the reticle information.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2021 by J. W. Mullins J. W. Mullins
Style: 4-16x42mm BDC Long Range
This review is for the 4-16x42 30mm BDC Long Range Hardline rifle scope. I was floored by the quality of this scope. Maybe that's not so much of a surprise because my needs were generally satisfied with a number of very nice Nikon, Vortex, and Burris scopes. But I wanted to get something a bit nicer
for a higher-end .308 precision, target rifle. And this fits the bill. Not sure whether I want to go with a set of high or medium rings (still trying to sort out what works best), but the scope is simply fantastic. The only issue I have with this product is an "error" in one of the product photos. The photo that shows the long-range BDC reticle you get with the scope stating it's pre-calibrated for ".223 Rem." That's incorrect; the reticle is for .308. If you go to the Crimson Trace website you'll see a photo that shows the ".223 Rem" reticle to be quite different. The reticle you get with this scope is correctly shown as ".308" (as does the pamphlet included in the scope's box). Go to the Crimson Trace website and add: "/introducing-brushline-hardline/" (and scroll down about halfway). (If you click on the 4-12x42 BDC scope that shows the ".223 Rem" reticle and correct labeling.) In a word, fantastic. In another word, stunning. And at roughly $350 (Amazon price at the time of this review) an incredible value. Just remember, this BDC Long Range is for .308 (Straight-up BDC is for .223). 5 stars. Would go higher if I could (and that's something I rarely write in my Amazon reviews).
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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2021 by X. Fossor
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Rivals scopes costing much more...
Style: 4-16x42mm BDC Long Range
The media could not be loaded. Crimson Trace is known for pioneering laser sights in the early 1990s. More recently, Crimson Trace branched out into a full-featured optical sight line in 2018 and 2019. Reviews almost universally praise Crimson Trace's new sights. Most comparisons are with scopes cost
ing considerably more--often two and three times as much, and while the comparisons often find the Crimson Trace sights inferior in certain ways, they're also almost uniformly full of admiration for what they accomplish at the price. So, for instance, one review I read before getting this scope compared a Crimson Trace Hardline scope with a $1500 scope from a famous optical company. The Crimson Trace's main drawback was a slight lack of brightness compared with the much more expensive scope. This is an excellent scope, providing quality that you would expect to spend much more to obtain than the $360 this costs on Amazon (I note that Crimson Trace has a list price of $519.99 on its web site for this scope--I don't know it it will remain at the lower price on Amazon.) This is a first focal length scope, part of the reason, perhaps, for the ability to provide such impressive quality at a low price. The scope is nitrogen filled and has multi-coated lenses. Crimson Trace tests each scope by immersion for waterproofness. Finally, Crimson Trace provides a no-reservations full lifetime warranty for the scope. Turrets are tactile, audible and stong. You must pull out the turret and twist it to return to zero. This means you don't pass through the tactile detents on returning to zero. You won't regret buying this scope. It's a bargain at the price.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2021 by Nebti18 Nebti18
Style: 4-16x42mm BDC Long Range
Wow, this is a sweet scope. I have some cheap optics that I've played with in the past, but this is my first real scope. And it is a beauty. I wasn't aware that this was Crimson's "budget" line until I was doing some more research, but - I can't imagine what their flagship line is like! I was surpris
ed - and initially irritated that it didn't come with the mounting brackets, but I suppose some rifles have something other than picatinny rails (although it is still my impression that that is rare). But once I got it properly mounted, I had to build a mount for my rifle to ensure I could perform all the sighting in procedures. It really wasn't that hard, but I was surprised how much there was to it, and it was really quite a fun and educational experience...but set aside some time to spend out in an open range and bring a wheel to measure distances, etc. And it did take a second to get used to aligning the bubble, as I knew it would from the few times I've looked through a scope before, but once you get used to it...man, what a great improvement over some iron sights. This is a real treat. I love it!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2021 by MussSyke