12 Best Scopes For 17 Hmr (2023 Updated)

I’ve used a lot of tools professionally through my life, but this is my first experience with one of these. So take what I say with a grain of salt. My biggest con with this is the picture quality. I have 20-20 vision so I know it’s not me.

I bought the tool for inner frame inspections (hunting for rust) on vehicles. More often than not, I felt like I couldn’t identify what I was looking at, where a mirror, flashlight, and mark one eyeball did it better.

It still works, don’t get me wrong. Pros, it has the essentials, rotating camera feed, adjustable brightness on the screen, and more importantly, the LED at the camera. Only have 4 or so hours using the tool (just bought it) so I can’t say to it’s durability.

It been in some dirty spots and seems fine. For the money, I’d say go ahead. But instead of listening to me. Talk to someone with more experience. It does what I want it to do, just feels like it takes a good long time to do it.

Needed to inspect the condition of cylinders in an old car. This item was the lowest priced option that might do the job. It does not have ultra high resolution, but was good enough to have a look at the insides and note the wall condition, So, rate it as good enough but not at the high end (high price) of the market.

If you are a shade tree and occasional mechanic, thumbs up. If you do car repair for a living, recommend finding one with higher resolution at higher price point.

I have had one of these for 10 years. Love it. Bought this one for a friend. This scope allows you to see inside of walls, engines or whatever you need to. I have found small oil leaks with this. Once you own one the amount of uses are endless.

Bright clear optic with a very comfortable feel not too small not too large. This monocular has a mil-dot ranging reticle, similar to a mil dot reticle rifle scope. It is a measuring tool, and is very useful, and it’s worth learning how to correctly use.

If you know the size or height of an object you are viewing, you can do easy math to determine the distance to the object. And vice versatile. If you have a mil dot scope, this is great to practice ranging with.

This is a quality piece of glass.

I had a pair of bushnell binoculars that cost about the same as this monocular. I lost them in the field right before black powder season and had to buy a replacement. I saw this monocular and decided it would be nice to have something smaller and all the vortex products I have bought in the past have been great.

This monocular does a very poor job gathering light, has pretty poor image quality, and a horrible eye relief. It definitely doesn’t stand up to the other vortex products I own. So, for the money you’re better off getting a set of bushnell binoculars for the same cost.

Feels quality. Clip seems sturdy. Optics are bright and clear. It did not fog up inside when I brought it in from sub freezing to room temp. The case is not junk, and the belt loop is heavy duty. Lots of purple chromatic issues in some high contrast situations, but it should not affect the function of the ranging reticle.

I found it hard to keep it steady even when leaning against a tree. I say this because if you have any hand shake or tremor already, you might want the one with a way to mount it on a monopod or tripod.

Or plan on using the clip to put it on something you are not touching, then look through it. It is difficult to obtain an accurate reading on the reticle when it is moving about. No provision for lens caps.

Overall, it is functional and does not require batteries!!.

Simply Amazing. I have used almost every model of binocular and this is one of the best values for the money. Nikon glass is amazing, providing clear images and the construction is sturdy. Add the waterproof feature and you have a real winner.

This is great for backdoor bird watchers. If you are reading this review, chances are that you don’t need anything fancier than this set. No need to look further.

I compared these binos side by side to some Vortex Diamondback 12×50 binos that belong to my girlfriends dad. Both he and I thought they were identical in clarity and magnification. Furthermore, these Nikons are smaller and lighter.

Vortex does have a better warranty but I’d take these Nikons over Vortex Diamondbacks due to their performance and lower price.

I wanted a reasonably priced low-power pair of binoculars for searching out constellations and night sky objects prior to looking at them with my telescope. The Nikon ProStaff 3s 10×42 binoculars are outstanding.

They are lightweight, easy to transport, have a rubberized exterior for water-resistance and durability, and the 7 degree (TFOV) fits my needs perfectly. The eye cups can be adjusted to change eye relief if you wear glasses, there is a diopter adjustment, and the view through them is just excellent — bright and clear from one edge of the field to the other.

I absolutely love these binoculars! They are a great value.

Great powerful magnification, sharp image, wide and comfortable field of view, easy focusing. Low light performance is very good. It feels like the build quality is good, but time will tell. Eyepiece cups tend to loosen up, not sure if it is only my unit or a general issue.

Chromatic aberration is noticeable under bright sunlight, but bearable. Usable without a tripod for short periods, but heavy and not comfortable to hold in hands for too long. The supplied tripod mount seems shaky and touching the binoculars while on the tripod produces much shake.

Important: the minimal interpupillary distance of these binoculars is 60 mm and this is too large for some people. Check this before buying.

In my search for the perfect binoculars I comparred multiple and narrowed it down to the diamondback hd, prostaff 7s and these monarch 5. The vortex was an easy no, I originally purchased the 7s because of the price, and honestly they are also amazing.

However they were too long for my bino harness so I returned them (thank you cabelas) and upgraded to the monarch 5. And I have to say wow. In the store it’s hard to tell the difference, but out in the mountains glassing for deer, the clarity, crisp sharp images, amazing color rendition and contrast really start to shine.

The more compact size and way better objective lenses caps and even just the feel of the binoculars all come into play. So is it worth the price difference ? Absolutely. It’s like seeing the world in hd.

I only wish for maybe slightly more eye relief and an optical lenses cover that’s better fitted but I’m pulling hairs to even say any of those are negative.

Nikon recently gave in to anti-hunting pressure and discontinued their rifle-scope offering. They think they can continue to sell binos and rangefinders to hunters without backlash from the antis. I won’t be buying Nikon anymore – there are plenty of other manufacturers who have not buckled – we should show them our support.

Cabelas and bass pro should end their relationship with Nikon.

The assembly is not hard. Overall light and easy to move around. Good optics. Two main issues: 1. The eyepiece holding tube is loose. It moves and rotates enough that a slight touch or moving the focusing knob makes an image to completely disappear from field of view on higher magnifications.

While the lens itself can be tightened with the screws, the eyepiece tube cannot be tightened at all. 2. The tripod is shaky. You have to hold perfectly still. Slight touch will shake the scope, making it useless.

For practical purposes, anything over 100x magnification is almost impossible to focus. The optics is good enough to see at least 135x, but so many loose and shaky pieces, it is impossible to focus.

I am very happy with my purchase of this telescope. I found the equatorial mount to be sturdier than I expected and the 6” Newtonian OTA to be better also. The OTA arrived in very good alignment needing little adjustment which is easy to do using the supplied alignment cap.

Just a quick touch of the primary mirror is all that is required from time to time. The red dot finder was for me near useless, so I replaced it with a 8×50 RACI finder I had lying around. Big improvement in finding objects.

The two Sirius Plossl eyepieces supplied turned out to be very good with this OTA. The mechanical construction of the OTA and the 1. 25” focuser was good. The OTA comes with a nice 8” dovetail bar and rings for mounting the ota.

I added another bar on top of the rings to use as a handle which is convenient. Optically, I was able to split the ‘Double-Double’ star system in Lyra using the 10mm eyepiece. Not bad for a fast f5 OTA.

The mount surprised me with its smoothness and stability. With the 6” ota mounted I can rest my hand and arm on the ota while focusing or viewing with very minimal vibration affecting the view. I should say that I do not extend the aluminum tripod legs but leave them fully inserted which certainly helps the stability.

I have not tried to raise them since the reflector has a high viewing position. The mount may not be as suitable when using a refractor since extending the legs would be necessary to raise the viewing position to a suitable level.

I generally use a small stool and sit while observing. When I bought this I had intentions of adding a clock drive to aid in astro photography. However I recently found a GOTO system for the mount I like and added it.

I have installed it, and it works perfectly with the mount using the SynscanPro application on my iPhone. One more thing. This combo of 6” reflector and astro view mount makes a great system to just scan the skies with.

I often loosen the GEM locks and scan around the sky moving between the raci finder and the eyepiece. Its a very nice setup for this. All in all, a great telescope.

The StarBlast 4. 5 is an excellent value. Very good optics, good size for planetary and DSO hunting, light and portable as well as a nice set of lenses. Great starter scope. Compromises must be made in design to provide a quality product at a reasonable price.

The Orion folks hit the sweet spot by providing very good lenses, mirrors and accessories at a reasonable cost without going overboard on a heavier mount. The EQ-2 mount is light, but full featured. The combination results in very nice package.

The moon (with the addition of a moon filter) is outstanding. The wife saw the rings of Saturn and one moon. Jupiter and it’s moons have been a pleasure to view. The assembly Video is excellent and should be used in lieu of the printed instructions.

This scope inspired me to purchase their larger Starblast 6 Reflector.

This is a great wide field scope. With the WO field flattener, I get stars that are sharp corner to corner. You’ll definitely want the field flattener for imaging. Without the flattener, stretch happens over about the outer 1/3 of fov when imaging with a dslr.

It’s a perfect fit for a small tracker. I tested it with a SW Star Adventurer and had no trouble balancing at all. Although I did this in my back(light polluted)yard, so I only captured 1 min frames.

No trails at all. Great scope for the price, and the folks at OPT were great as always!.

Excellent quality, and reasonably priced portable telescope. The build and craftsmanship of this scope is amazing, and the design and color scheme is absolutely beautiful. The focuser is also of excellent quality allowing for both coarse and fine adjusments.

I tried it out the other night on the Moon and a star named Capella. The moon offered amazingly crisp images and stars appear as pinpoints of light. Capella, this scope’s “first light” was a beautiful orange star.

As it is very portable, you can easily transport this scope to remote viewing sites for visual and astrophotograpy work. The scope came with a padded carrying case, making it easy to store and transport.

If you are considering a refractor telescope purchase, consider William Optics as a potential selection. You will not be disappointed.

I wanted to write to say first what excellent service highpoint has and what a great telescope this is. The images in this scope are clear and beautiful. So if your thinking about buying this scope I only buy from highpoint scientific they are the best and most knowledgeable.

William optics makes a excellent telescope and you can’t beat the price I have seen similar scopes costing double this amount William optics has the best telescopes around. 5 stars for a great job highpoint your the best.

Best when used with the included tripod since the magnification is so great. The included metal case is pretty slick too,Great for storage and shipping protection. although it is too big to stuff in a bag.

It’s a bit bigger in the hand than I thought as per the photos.

Like I said , way better than I thought it would be. Great at the range, great for bird watching and makes a terrific telescope.