Nightforce ATACR 4 1. F1 Full Review. Over the years, Nightforce scopes have evolved into one of the premier tactical rifle scope makers in the world. They continue to develop their product line to fit the niches of both the tactical shooting world as well as the competition shooters. They have even recently made a move into the general hunting segment with their SHV line of scopes. They have come a long way from their standard NXS line of scopes, which still are very good, and many of their newer models are even made in the USA. We have reviewed several of their scopes and have always come away impressed and we even reviewed an early ATACR scope. But with their many new models hitting the shelves now, we wanted to take a look at one of their newer offerings to see how their upgrades have changed the scope and to also see where they now stand among the leaders in the field. This time around we decided to take a look at their new ATACR 4 1. F1 with a MIL R reticle. As many of you readers know, we do not like overscoping a rifle, which is very common these days, and we prefer the mid powered scopes on tactical rifles due to their numerous advantages over extremely high magnification scopes. The 4 1. 6x range is a very good zoom range to cover and it affords very effective sniping use out to nearly a mile. Nightforce scopes have always come packaged extremely well in a large, very protective box. Back in the day the boxes used to be a long triangle box, but now they are a traditional rectangle. Inside the box the scope is joined by an owners manual, several stickers, the little red accessories baggy with cleaning cloth inside, several envelopes with the warning Do Not Discard and the Allen wrenches used for slipping the rings. It is actually somewhat interesting to note that typically the more expensive the scope, such as Schmidt Bender, Hensoldt, the cheaper the scope box is and the skimpier the provided documentation. Not so with the Nightforce scopes. They do a good job providing useful documentation and accessories that are important for their useand lots of stickers to promote the brand. The standard NXS scopes have always included a sunshade, but that is not the case with these higher end ATACR scopes. Though the ATACR does come with the fancy Nightforce flip up scope caps that rotate, which we will talk about later in this writeup. Additionally, we like seeing the script along the top of the scope Made in the U. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. S. A. Obviously there are wonderful scope makers outside of the USA, but it is nice to see additional high quality scopes come from factories located here. If you have ever used a Nightforce NXS scope, then the eyepiece will look very familiar to you. Get the latest breaking news across the U. S. on ABCNews. com. One of the niggles that people, including us, have dinged the NXS scopes for was that the entire eyepiece rotates when the power is changed. This made it a pain to use the typical flip up scope caps that generally all snipers used for protecting the lens of their scopes when not in use. Nightforce always claimed the rotating eyepiece was done for increased durability and ruggedness, of which Nightforce scopes have always been known for. We are not engineers here so we cannot comment with any sort of authority as to whether that is true or not, but we assume that it is just from the logic of the fewer part count. The old Burris XTR scopes were the same way and Burris went away from that design when they redid those scopes a few years ago but not Nightforce. At least not with the ATACR scopes. Their compact series went to a separate zoom ring, but this ATACR still rotates the entire eyepiece when the zoom power is changed.
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