Please let us know. My brother has the 44mm and IM interested what the 50 has to offer.Should be able to get you an answer tonight as long as UPS doesn’t try to deliver before I get home. I have the 44mm on one rifle and just ordered the 50mm for another. The 44 is pretty dang bright, no complaints there. I’d imagine the 50mm is just that much better in low light with the larger objective and illumination.
UPS came well after dark so a low light comparison will have to wait for tomorrow, but so far I’m really liking the lit reticle.Please let us know. My brother has the 44mm and IM interested what the 50 has to offer.
Sounds good. Keep us posted.UPS came well after dark so a low light comparison will have to wait for tomorrow, but so far I’m really liking the lit reticle.
I think the illumination alone is worth the ~$100 difference and 1.5 oz penalty. I found that there was a lot of bleeding on higher brightness settings but somewhere around the 3-5 level was perfect. I couldn’t mount the 44mm any lower and had plenty of room for the 50mm so it was a no brainer. Extended talleys were needed to mount either scope on my long action, just an FYI if that’s your application.Awesome Thanks for the review! I am going to go with the 50 mm.
Thanks. That answers a lot of my questions. I was wondering if I could go with lower rings with but I guess not. Not sure what you mean by the extended Talleys. The high Talley rings? Mine is going on a Bergara short action.I think the illumination alone is worth the ~$100 difference and 1.5 oz penalty. I found that there was a lot of bleeding on higher brightness settings but somewhere around the 3-5 level was perfect. I couldn’t mount the 44mm any lower and had plenty of room for the 50mm so it was a no brainer. Extended talleys were needed to mount either scope on my long action, just an FYI if that’s your application.
Thanks. I will be be ordering that same scope from them tomorrow.Look at the prices at Red Hawk Rifles before you buy. I picked up a V4 4-16X50 for $839.
Thanks for coming back to this and giving your opinion.So I put them side by side the last 15 min of "shooting light". The 50 mm was definitely brighter by a decent margin. The lit reticle really made a huge difference to me and solidified my preference for the 50mm. The 44 is no slouch but the 50mm is better in low light.
The illuminated reticle is a game changer for me and I will probably not buy another scope without it. So much easier to pick it up quickly than with the regular fine line crosshairs. Maybe it's because I'm getting old and my eyes are going to crap.I think the illumination alone is worth the ~$100 difference and 1.5 oz penalty. I found that there was a lot of bleeding on higher brightness settings but somewhere around the 3-5 level was perfect. I couldn’t mount the 44mm any lower and had plenty of room for the 50mm so it was a no brainer. Extended talleys were needed to mount either scope on my long action, just an FYI if that’s your application.
So I put them side by side the last 15 min of "shooting light". The 50 mm was definitely brighter by a decent margin. The lit reticle really made a huge difference to me and solidified my preference for the 50mm. The 44 is no slouch but the 50mm is better in low light.
12-16ish. Upper levels. Difference was less noticeable down low.Do you recall what power you had them on? Everything else equal, I would have thought they’d be basically the same at 8x or lower. Makes me wander if I step up to the 50mm or not given my old tired eyes.