welcome to the optics Renaissance I am not exaggerating when I say that right
now is probably the best time in the history of the world to be able to go
out and find a scope for your rifle or handgun basically you can take whatever
your individual needs are your individual gun go out to any of the
major manufacturers and you're not just going to find a scope that works
perfectly well for what you need to get done but you can probably pick your
price point as well and maybe scale back features or scale them up if you want
and one of the companies that has been leading the charge and all this recently
is Bushnell not only have they swapped out some of their older models they've
just gone ahead and thrown out everything and they have come up with a
bunch of new lines all at the same time last year we took a look at the Bushnell
engage which was just an amazing little scope very very clear glass excellent
resolution edge to edge great color reproduction at a just a fantastic cost
it is very affordable for people that want to be able to go long range or
you know kind of intermediate range great little scope but now they've gone
and they've added these three whole new tiers and we're gonna be taking a look
at some individual models right there here I'm Kyle Broderick welcome to the
social regressive we have all kinds of awesome scope reviews coming up here in
the future make sure you like share subscribe and actually when it comes to
these three that we have here on the table we're gonna be doing some
long-term reviews on these you're probably gonna see some field footage
there might be some hunting all kinds of great stuff coming up
so what we have here on the table we have the Bushnell prime which is going
to be their new kind of budget scope down there we have the Bushnell nitro
which is going to be a great mid tier maybe just so it's gonna be definitely
higher than your engage the glass on this is every bit as excellent as it was
on the engage but it's gonna add some extra things on here including FFP and
then back here we have the Bushnell forge which is going to provide it's
going to take a lot of those elite tactical sort of glass and other goodies
like some of the reticles and things and it's going to make it more of a hunting
style scope a little lighter a little smaller and a little bit lower in price
as well so we're gonna take a look at all three of these today and just kind
of describe what's going on at Bushnell right now and how you might want to look
at these three scopes again we are going to be taking a close look at each of
these over time but we're just gonna break this down and show you what's
going on at Bushnell right now let's start at the top end with the forge a
lot of you are going to recognize the rifle that it's attached to this is the
savage axis rifle that we worked on for so long it's a seven millimeter
oh wait rifle and this has connected in a 30 mile an hour crosswind at 1450 plus
yards this is a heck of a rifle and I think it's going to work out really well
especially with this scope attached to it so what this is imagine taking one of
the elite tactical rifles or rifle scopes like the HD mr2 or the XRS to
that we've taken a look at in the past and just loved and then you can scale
some things back just a little bit this has a lot of the technology from there
and it has a very similar reticle what's in here right now this is the deploy
milliradian ffp reticle inside here and this has a lot of data in there this is
the kind of reticle that I just love for hunting for target plinking for
everything I'm a big fan of getting lots of data in a reticle some of you may not
like this quite so much and they do have some other options you can get second
focal plane first focal plane MOA milliradian they have really pulled
out the stops on this scope this is just flatly amazing before we delve into the
awesome features of this scope I just wanted to go over some of its basic
stats this is a 30 millimeter tube not a 34 like you're gonna get on the HD mr2
in the XRS - this is going to lead to not all that much elevation and windage
adjustment I'll put the the stats here on the screen but out here we do have a
50 millimeter objective with an excellent lens in here this collects a
whole lot of light past dusk is going to do a great job for you
hunters especially this is designed to be a hunting scope and one that can be
taken out into the real world and kind of beat around this is going to be able
to take a hit I think I'm expecting that this tube is going to be a little bit
thicker than usual again you know we do have not much elevation and windage
adjustment and I think part of that is gonna come down to extra thickness they
put in this too some of it's also going to come down to larger lenses I imagine
because this the image through here is just beautiful but I'm getting ahead of
myself 50 millimeter objective and then the
zoom ratio on here is 6x which i think is just perfect since this is a first
focal plane scope in this case 6x is just about right if you start getting up
into 8 X + 10 X you get into some of these where the reticle is too small
when you're zoomed all the way out and when you're zoomed in it's really thick
fat you can't actually see your target on the other side it's just a huge
occlusion inside your scope 6 X I think is just perfect and especially coupled
with this particular reticle however they have these lenses set up the exit
pupil is simply gigantic we're talking about a four-inch eye relief on this
scope which is but about another half inch longer than just about any other
scope that I've ever dealt with I'm used to having to mount the scopes on the
furthest rear rail right here and you can see that I actually have it pushed
forward one just so I can get enough distance this is going to be one that's
very easy to get behind even on its maximum magnification 27 X getting
behind this scope is incredibly easy as you might expect from a scope of the
price tag of 950 bucks this does have side focus and like everything else on
this scope this dial just feels wonderful it's just perfectly smooth no
hitches everything on here seems to be very precisely machined and if we take a
look at the turrets right here I mean there are no chatter marks there's
everything is just nicely radiused everything is very very well built
the turrets that you see right here let's go ahead and start checking out
some of the features these are locking like the some of the the turrets that we
checked out before like on the engage you lift this up to unlock it and these
are actually graduated these will spin up and down based on how you've turned
these so you lift it up to turn and when you press it down it is locked now this
does have kind of the the three little screws that you turn to remove the cap
and be able to reset your zero and on the underside of this there is a zero
stop this is just like the one that you get on the elite tactical scopes
it's a plate that you unscrew drop down and then you you set your exact zero
once you have this cited in the windage knob as well is one of the locking
turrets so you can pull this to unlock it and then press back in to lock and
you can probably hear I'm gonna turn the microphone just a little bit so you can
hear a bit better but this is what the turrets sound like very tactile very
precise there's almost no float going on in here when I spin it up and it has a
nice loud click to it this is premium they've definitely gone to some some
lengths to make sure that this feels and sounds just right this is gonna be one
where you're not going to be accidentally drifting over your exact
spot that you need to hit on your turrets some of you guys like to spin
your turrets in the field some of you guys like to use the reticle depending
on this situation I'll use both but for a dynamic environment I want one of
these really complex reticles that allows me to deal with maybe a running
target so I can put lead on it I can do deal with windage right away I can deal
with drop and I can do it without having to actually touch the turrets at all so
if I'm dealing with targets at different distances I can very quickly jump from
one to the next without having to actually mess with anything on the scope
take my eye out of the scope anything like that
and this reticle is going to get the job done in a bit
way the horace h 59 is probably still my favorite reticle of all time and this
takes basically that same formula and just kind of tweaks it a little bit this
is going to be excellent out in the field i put together a video where i
showed how I use the Horus H59 to tag a running hog at 400 yards and it
was just kind of a pop-up target and this is gonna be one that's going to
work essentially the same way i am a big big fan and i can't wait to see how this
does out in the field the image through this scope is better than I can describe
it really seems to be every bit as good as through the elite tactical models and
I'm not exaggerating I'm looking forward to testing this side-by-side with those
this has no tunneling it has just a gigantic image easy to get behind you
get full resolution edge to edge color contrast resolution it is there in
spades and you're gonna be able to see lots of mirage through this I'm really
looking forward to testing putting it all together what is this scope designed
for this is a hard u scope this is one that you will take out in the field and
do some real work with if you are a hunter in the Rockies or out in the
plains where you need that extra magnification you need to be able to
take longer shots and be able to deal with win with moving targets and all of
that this is your scope this is going to do all kinds of great work for you and
that goes not just for the features but for how this is built as well
this is ipx7 waterproof it's supposed to be able to handle being three feet
underwater for about 30 minutes or so without anything getting on the inside
it's oring sealed and this has some really neat tricks on the lenses this is
called the EXO barrier its exterior lenses have a coating on them that I was
able to test out on the the Bushnell engage it's going to prevent anything
from really happening to the lens it's going to resist dust scratches smudges
sometimes some of the older scopes if you just got a fingerprint on there and
left it for too long it would kind of itch the scope it would it would stay
there forever but this repels basically everything from what I've heard you know
tree sap whatever it will not stick to these lenses
permanently and it won't damage it let's see what's in the box first off you do
get a scope cover this is kind of a padded sort of thick material so this
should help keep your scope a little extra safe during transportation you do
get this lens cleaning cloth the microfiber cloth with a little clip on
the end that's kind of nice you get this universal tool for adjusting not just
your your scope itself and some of the turrets and things on there but you can
actually use this to crank the torque back onto your scope rings this is gonna
be your standard scope ring nut size right there
pretty cool little thing right here okay so you get a Sun Shade very lightweight
and it screws on very nicely and then we have these Butler Creek style flip caps
right here so this has the the push button on the rear one and then you just
kind of push forward on the front I think these are made by Butler Creek and
they fit very tightly these aren't ones you have to worry about them falling off
in the field so what does this rifle scope actually give up when compared to
the elite tactical models like the HD mr2 well first off you do get the
smaller tube so you're gonna get less adjustment range 14 and a half
milliradians up-down left-right instead of the thirty that you're gonna be
getting with the HD mr2 and some of the lenses may have some different sizes in
here I don't know if that'll make an actual difference we're gonna see in the
field but some of the other things that you're gonna give up is going to be the
option of illuminated reticle and some of the more bizarre reticles like the h
59 now this is very similar to that so you're really not losing a lot but if
you did want the the trimmer 3 or the H 59 those reticles are not available in
here the elite tactical models do have that IDI prime glass which is going to
be higher density and it should lead to greater resolution as well now we're
taking a big step down in price but the quality is not dropping much at all this
is the Nitro and this model that you see right here the 3 to 12 FFP with the
deploy milliradian reticle this is actually selling on Midway right now for
about 375 bucks they have it on sale hopefully when you go they still have
that sale going on because that price is insane
for what you get on this this still has that 30 millimeter tube
this one has a 44 millimeter objective that's what most of them are going to
have in this line there is a 50 millimeter on the 6 to 24 I believe go
check out the stats and then back here the zoom ratio that you're gonna get on
this steps back a little bit from that 6x this is a 4x on all of these models
so this one is a 3 to 12 there's the 12x down to 3 this spins very neatly and
nicely and this really does continue all the awesomeness that we saw with the
forge where everything seems to be very well polished it just seems to be built
extremely well overall very well machined this feels like a very solid
scope even though it doesn't actually weigh all that much this is you know a
little bit more than some of the average hunting scopes but really not bad at all
especially for a 30 millimeter tube like the forge this does have side focus and
this feels every bit as smooth and you can see that this one will actually
parallax adjust to 10 yards so if you're looking for a scope that you can put on
a rimfire as well this might be an excellent choice some of the differences
that we're going to get into take a look at these turrets these are not exposed
target style turrets these are more slimline capped turrets these are this
whole scope overall is still ipx7 waterproof but this one is set up just a
little bit differently these are not graduated turrets so these are not ones
that you're probably going to be really spinning in the field especially when
you take a look at the reticle that we have in here you can spin these up these
do have a really neat zero reset if if you saw the the engage video that I did
a while back it had a special top right here on this turret all you have to do
is unscrew this cap right here and then you can just lift the turret up put it
back on its 0 once you get it zeroed and then lock it back down and this is good
to go but yeah you can spin this it doesn't
have any there kind of locks going on but the
clicks themselves are very palpable audible and this is going to work out
really well this is one quarter MOA this is an FFP model as well but this one
uses their MOA deploy reticle so this is a lot like that age 59 again and like
the the reticle that we saw in the Forge except that this one is going to be MOA
based instead and a lot of you guys may prefer that if you are you know someone
that has grown up in the Imperial system for a good long while if that's what you
use then this is going to be what you like best if you're used to measuring
things in inches this is going to be probably the best choice the nitro line
is quite large and you have lots of options to choose from if you prefer
milliradians versus MOA if you like SFP FFP you can pick what you want and
there's gonna be probably a rifle scope in there lots of different options much
like the forge you do get the EXO barrier on the exterior lenses that's
going to keep anything from sticking and then you do have the ultra wideband
coating on these lenses as well so whatever awesomeness in the image
that you got with the forge you're gonna get a lot of it right here and so far in
my testing resolution edge to edge is just phenomenal whatever resolution it
has in the center it does not give even right up to the very edge this is one
that's going to work very well in hunting situations especially where you
have maybe herd animals and you need to be able to make multiple shots and be
able to see things on the periphery this is going to get the job done when it
comes to reading wind as well and this is another one that I just can't wait to
see what it can do in the field the rifle that it's attached to is a Ruger
American and this has a Boyd's at one stock attached to it and it's in target
configuration right now make sure you check out the review that I've done on
the Boyd's at one because this stock is a great upgrade for a lot of you guys
that have some of these especially more budget and rifles now let's check out
the goodies that come in the box now first off it is going to show you the
the reticles that you can get here's the deploy SFP deploy MOA FFP deploy mil FFP
and then they do have a multi X as well if you want a traditional hunting style
reticle some of the other goodies that come in the box okay we have a sunshade
that's already attached on here this is just like that Forge one and we do get
the little lens cleaning cloth and then we have the Butler Creek style caps as
well so they are including a lot of value for money in here this scope costs
three hundred seventy five bucks on Midway right now you really need to go
buy it so what do you give up when you go from the forge down to the Nitro not
all that much you do get the 4x zoom ratio instead of the 6x and you do lose
the graduated turrets the kind of target style turrets and you get these kind of
low-profile covered ones instead and you do get a smaller objective but that's
about it we've reduced the tube diameter the objective size and the price
considerably and now we are looking at the Bushnell prime specifically this is
the one to four model 1 to 4 by 32 millimeter this little guy is still very
well built very well machined I think it uses a lot of the same parts that you're
going to see on some of the others like the way that these caps on here are
machined they still feel just wonderful but it's going to remove some of the
extra goodies that we got on the other ones in order to get down to this price
so like I mentioned this is a one inch tube this is a 32 millimeter objective
right here and then under these turret caps instead of the graduated turret
turrets that we had before or ones that we could you know kind of lock down and
all that this right here is a very simple MOA turret right here it still
has those wonderful solid palpable and audible clicks it still has all that
quality going through there it still has all the parts that feel really nice and
very well machined and yes you can actually remove this this screw right
here and then replace this if you want to set your zero but overall this is a
scope that you're not going to be playing with the turrets at all and
you're really not going to be adapting to much of the environment either as far
as the reticle goes this is kind of a lock and leave gun and it has a very
simple reticle this is the multi X which is going to be kind of your simple
crosshair reticle with a thicker posts on the outside so you can still use it
to make some measurements if you need to you can still use it for windage but
overall this is going to be a simpler device and it's going to be one that's
going to work very well in kind of traditional short range hunting this
right here as you can see is not a 223 ar-15 this is 458 SOCOM and so far my
buddy Cole that owns this rifle and he's been testing this scope out on top of it
he has just been thumping on this and yeah nothing is happening a lot of time
what you would see in the past with some of these second focal plane reticles
some of the less expensive hunting scopes the crosshair the reticle would
actually come out it's sitting right under here somewhere a lot of time it
would bump out either from the rear would recoil or from the sudden forward
recoil that you get from an ar-15 buffer slamming back home this little thing is
built to take a beating this is one that you're gonna be able to take out in the
field give it a lickin and it's still gonna keep ticking the mount that you
see here is a weaver one-inch SPR thumb nut mount it's actually very inexpensive
if you go out on Amazon I'll put a link to it down on the bottom this runs about
40 bucks I think right now a great little piece and this should hold it
very steadily if you want you can actually just turn down these thumb nuts
in order to attach it but since this is a 458 SOCOM now we're gonna torque this
down to 40 inch pounds to help this scope survive difficult outdoor work
this does have the XO barrier on all of its external lenses and I'm really happy
that they did that to have a $130 scope that can not only take a pounding and be
able to reliably track with the turrets up here but to also have
of such debris resistance and all kinds of weather resistance is awesome it's
also water resistant this has that same ipx7 waterproof rating so this is going
to be able to be dropped in water or taken out in rain and it shouldn't have
any difficulties overcoming those situations I mentioned that this is a 1
to 4x scope and you might think that this has a 4x zoom ratio and all these
models but that's not the case this one is kind of the oddball most of these are
going to be the standard 3x zoom ratio so you're gonna have your 3 to 9 6 to 18
4 to 12 those sorts of magnifications and then those reticles sitting back
here in the second focal plane are all going to be very simple but there are
some variances as you kind of step around within this range there is going
to be one model that has side focus that's going to be one of the higher end
ones there's going to be a higher magnification one that is going to save
you a little bit on price that has an adjustable objective out here instead
and then there are going to be some models that have larger objectives of
course there's gonna be a 3 to 9 by 40 that's kind of your standard hunting
size scope this one has a little 32 millimeter objective and then there
should be one that has a 50 millimeter objective as well aside from tube
diameter zoom ratio and some of the other features that we mentioned what
are some of the things that you might miss going for this instead of the forge
well probably one of the biggest ones that I've noticed is its resolution
overall this still does have a wonderful image for its price point I can't really
think of anything that compares to it it looks very good it has lots of contrast
lots of color reproduction it all looks excellent but it does kind of fall off
toward the edges so you do have a certain amount of resolution toward the
center of the image but then once you get about 80% of the way out you do
start to lose that at the edges some people won't notice they're going to be
concentrating more toward the inside but then if you do have you know maybe a
herd of pigs or you know something that we you need to be keeping watch on the
edges you might be losing a little bit of that prettiness overall I am floored
by the quality of the image in this scope especially when you consider its
price point going over to Bushnell comm and check out their catalog it is huge
and it seems to be growing by the day these three models that we've taken a
look at here today this is only just scratching the surface no matter what
kind of work you plan to be doing Bushnell is probably going to have a
model that's going to meet your need and you can probably pick from those price
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