{"id":79230,"date":"2017-09-15T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=79230"},"modified":"2024-03-31T18:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:28:03","slug":"best-rifle-scope-ever-built-nightforce-atacr-7-35x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/best-rifle-scope-ever-built-nightforce-atacr-7-35x\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Rifle Scope Ever Built: NightForce ATACR 7-35X"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>At this year’s SHOT Show, \u201cSniper Jesus\u201d told me the new Night Force ATACR 7-35X<\/a> was the best deal going in optics. I have anxiously been wanting to put this to the test. I begged, borrowed, cajoled, harassed, and arguably stalked NightForce for a review sample. Arguably stalked is a loose interpretation or so my lawyer tells me.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week a box arrived from Orofino. And you know what? It was absolutely worth the wait.
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As a former soldier, I have a bit of a love\/hate with NightForce<\/a> glass. They have always had a great reputation for glass clarity, durability, and mechanical precision. When I was in the service, they also had a reputation for complete inflexibility, even for the boys in SOCOM. I personally called the last time a new version came to the U.S. Army, on our brand new .300 Win. Mag. MK13s. Could we get rid of this reticle and second focal plane madness, and have a Horus? We will pay for the difference, checkbook is right here. No? Schmidt and Bender<\/a> will. Talk to you later.<\/p>\n\"The\n

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The problem tended to be, NightForce really liked building things to Squeal Spec. And the Squeals refused to step away from the second focal plane. Learn the difference between first and second focal plane, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, Night Force has fixed the reticle part of the problem, in a grand fashion. Ray Dennis, the founder of NightForce, bought Horus Vision. And the offerings now in First Focal Plane (FFP) fill the majority of their catalog.\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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So it\u2019s been a few years, and I was really excited to try one of the new models out. It did not disappoint. The clarity of the glass is on par with anything else in the world, and I do mean anything. I was serious in the previous mention of Schmidt and Bender, it’s what we used my last few years serving. It has been called the gold standard of clarity, but I would put this NightForce up against it or anyone else. It could take on\u00a0Zeiss<\/a> and Swarovski<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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