I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...

While the Viper scope (and the whole Vortex line) is aimed at hunters, this is a high-performance scope at a mid-tier price. The compromise 65-millimeter objective lens size makes the scope small ...