Just bought the Vortex Strikefire II, liked the warranty and good reviews it got on Optics Planet and some other sites. OP had it to the house in three days, out of the box the dot is not really a dot, more of a star looking thing? Will get it to the range next week and see wtf it does. :shock:
Vortex
- Thread starter xerts1191
- Start date
Welcome to ArizonaShooting.org!
Join today!
superdrag67
Member
- Joined
- May 16, 2018
- Messages
- 276
Do you wear glasses or do you have an astigmatism? Take a picture of the dot with your phone and I bet you'll find it's a perfect circle. Also make sure it's only turned up as bright as needed and not just set to full brightness, that will help with the star effect.
:clap: ^^^xerts1191 said:
if you look at the dot directly it will be distorted... but if you look at a target through the dot it should clear it up. i have the Vortex Viper on my Ruger 57 and my dot does the same thing until i aim at a target. now i have astigmatism and i wear glasses so my dot does not clean all the way up. from what i understand the best red dot for astigmatism/glasses is a Holosun from china. i do not have experience with Holosun though.
I saw the same thing. I took a picture with my phone of the dot to complain about it to one of my friends. He just handed the phone back and asked what was wrong.
I can still ring the steel (whenever it goes back up) at rio with my colt and holosun. Just gotta turn it down and focus beyond.
I can still ring the steel (whenever it goes back up) at rio with my colt and holosun. Just gotta turn it down and focus beyond.
BananaHands
Member
Just out of curiosity, when you say the BCG wouldn’t fully engage, you mean it wouldn’t go forward far enough to chamber the round?
:shock: 100 rounds later, Vortex Strikefire Op Mod from Optics Planet. $199 and some change. Mounted on Ruger 8500 5.56 used 55gr and 62gr reloads at 50yrds. Took awhile to get on the paper, snakes and lizards on the hillside may have taken some casualties, target stand took a beating, all in the name of science. Like the overall quality of the build, good glass, sturdy mounting platform, the dot is nice and bright and not fuzzy as I had stated before, needed to have my glasses on :lol: Give it a solid (4) on a scale of 1-5. The adjustment dials leave a bit to be desired, caps that cover the dials fit in the groove on the dial itself, needed to pull away from the scope to adjust, then peek back in the scope to see what I was doing :doh: give that a (2) Anyway for an old retired guy that’s just a recreational shooter trying to be tacticool :ugeek: I give the scope a solid (4) Next trip 100yrds 
ray: Additional info, this particular run of Vortex scopes made for Optics Planet (OP MOD) were made in CHY NAH :x Fortunatly Vortex still gives the lifetime transferrable warranty.
ray: Additional info, this particular run of Vortex scopes made for Optics Planet (OP MOD) were made in CHY NAH :x Fortunatly Vortex still gives the lifetime transferrable warranty.
Tenring
Member
Glad you got your Rifle issue worked out and are liking the Vortex. I really like red dots but they just look like a fuzzy ball or star with my eyes.
Back when I was first looking to get a red dot I went down to Sportsman's, now since I had Lazic done back in '08 I've had to use cheaters (magnifiers) to see up close, when I was looking at the red dot checking all the buttons and whatnot I had my cheaters on, when I looked at the dot it looked like a busted up star, not a dot.
Told sales there's something wrong with this one, they looked at it and said "looks fine to me", after a little back and forth I took my glasses off and the dot came back, magnification will distort the dot I found out.
Told sales there's something wrong with this one, they looked at it and said "looks fine to me", after a little back and forth I took my glasses off and the dot came back, magnification will distort the dot I found out.
Tenring and Tunnug the fuzzy went away for me when I finally wised up looked through it with my script glasses, I-was thinking the same thing, thought I got a lemon, try and get to the range next week and try it out to 100yds, should prove to be interesting for ancient eyes.
