I had two of the first focal plane Lightstream.
Optically they are brilliant, but it seems that much of the bright picture is due to the ret being formed from wire rather than engraved in the glass.
The worst aspect however is the parallax error if using holdover (so I'm a wee bit surprised by the comments about it being a great HFT 'scope.....it's not!) As a dial in for the range being shot it makes an excellent sniper 'scope.
Then again I bought a Bushnell 6500 & thought that to be way over rated too.
I've no experience with the upper end 'scopes such as S&B or Ziess by the way
ATB
Ken
Truttemer Tir Club
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Great shooting.....I suspect you could shoot using a milk bottle as a 'scope though!
And we seem to agree on the parallax error. Have to admit that I didn't try keeping at 8x though. But didn't think that with a £400+ FFP I'd need to limit how I wanted to use the 'scope
ATB
Ken
I have 4 one all the guns i hunt with .22 theoben fac btas 400 btas elan .20 gin b stock and ruger 10/22 flawless
The Lightstream has a Glass etched reticle & it's parallax error is no more than most scopes for a given head movement. What most people see as more parallax error on this scope is purely down to massive field of view, you can move your head quite a way & you will still see the picture. This massive head movement will give you plenty of parallax error but during normal shooting you don't move you head side to side this much, for a set head movement (10mm) the Lightstream is slightly better than the Bushnell 6500 & better than the EB Sniper, this is using the same parallax setting & magnification.
I was going to have one of these for the new 17hmr sako ??
but there seems to be a few people that are not that happy with it,
mmmmmmmmmmm
what to go for now,
bob.
Bob,
there's not a scope made that will get universal praise. Because of this I learned to not take too much notice of what others have to say, positive or negative. What works for their eyes might not work for me and vice versa. Make your own mind up, preferably after at least looking through the scope you intend to buy if you possibly can.
Fabricatum diem, pvnc!
Bob if your anywhere near Lyneham in the next few days drop me a PM, mines on my Wolf but it will give you a good idea how good these scopes are