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Title: Hunters Specialties 2-8x32 - springer safe?
Post by: Kragman1 on October 29, 2022, 11:08:00 PM

It's a side focus scope that seems to be a doppelganger of the Vortex Diamondback HP 2-8x32.  I'm guessing sourced from the same factory as the Vortex, and I'm hoping is just as springer friendly.

I just mounted mine on a Diana 48, and I'm hoping it isn't a death sentence. 

If anyone has tried them on a springer, let me know how it worked out.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Hunters Specialties 2-8x32 - springer safe?
Post by: Yogi on October 30, 2022, 06:22:03 PM

I had that Vortex scope.  Great glass.  Minimum focal distance 20 yards.

-Y

Title: Re: Hunters Specialties 2-8x32 - springer safe?
Post by: Kragman1 on October 30, 2022, 07:36:57 PM

Thanks Yogi.

How did yours hold up, and on which rifle(s)?
Also, my side focus is marked down to 20, but on lower magnifications I'm clear much closer, 5 yards or so.  I understand that doesn't mean that my parallax is good in that situation, but I'm still happy about it.

Title: Re: Hunters Specialties 2-8x32 - springer safe?
Post by: Yogi on October 30, 2022, 07:43:38 PM

Never mounted it.  20 yd min parallax was a deal breaker for me.  I got it to be a backyard pesting gun.  Would have been mounted on a HW 50 in .22.
Backyard never happened.  Sold it to a fellow GTA'er. ;)

-Y

PS just because it has the same Vortex tube and controls does not mean it has the same glass.  Vortex Diamondback glass is excellent.  Hunters Speciaties I don't know.
My Vortex was just over $200, before they cancelled them.

Title: Re: Hunters Specialties 2-8x32 - springer safe?
Post by: Kragman1 on October 30, 2022, 10:22:08 PM

Glass is super.  I'm just hoping that IF it's a twin, they built them the same way internally.

Otherwise I'm about to ruin a nice scope.