Shotgun bbl aside, the only value I can imagine in the 0.75x is running boar hunting when you have multiple targets coming across you and you want to take 'em all down like Count Whatshisname, not a BD14 Scenario. I don't have access to that type of hunting so don't have an informed opinion on whether there would be an advantage of the .75 over 1x but there may well be one. Sounds like a niche market but there are lots of folk for whom that is their hunting style, so plenty of reason to develop such a scope.....
I guess the other thing is my 1-8 has great light transmission under early morning conditions, even when a bit foggy. I've never used it for dusk-early evening stand hunting for deer. It would probably work but I have other better purposed scopes for that. I'd be shocked if the .75-6 is not also superb and certainly up for early morning light - but I don't know, never looked through one.....
I think of both as pretty specialised built for purpose scopes - and maybe the combo of shotgun and fast moving rifle game is a fit... I can see why you would consider it and it's a pity there isn't someone who has been using one for a season. Dunno, I'd still be inclined to go for the 1-8 but I'm a conservative bugger and I tend to stick to what I know works. It was a leap of faith for me to go to a scope that was only 1-8x
Swarovski .75-6x20
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Re: Swarovski .75-6x20
9.3x64,
I have one, and I like it, but I'm using it for a unique application.
We don't have much in the way of "driven" hunting here in the USA (though I wish we did - particularly with pigs). However, I stalk pigs, and when I do so during the day, the Swaro Z8i 0.75-6x20 is the scope that I've been using on my upcalibered AR-15. During the daytime, I use a handheld thermal device to help me sneak-up on "sounders" of swine in the palmetto swamps in which I hunt pigs. When hunting with the my original Z6i 1-6x24, there were times that the pigs would run toward me (inadvertently rather than charging me), and I wondered how the wider-angle of the 0.75x might help that. Well, I can report that it works well having an extreme "wide-angle" when right-up on running animals. BTW, I'm using one of those little Swaro levers that moves the zoom ring, and I'm typically shooting off of sticks.
I haven't used the 0.75-6x20 in real low-light, but it can get dim in the swamp, and the scope performs admirably to my 50 y.o. eyes.
As an aside (and though I realize this is another example of a very unique case), the ability to put a ballistic turret on the Swaro Z8i 0.75-6x20 and the 1-8x24, makes them extremely versatile scopes for those of us using AR-15s and AR-10s to hunt in the Southeast USA. I can go from shooting close-in to far-out. Putting a Z8i 1-8x24 with BT on a .308 AR-10 with short barrel (and suppressor) makes for a relatively compact gun that's capable of easily shooting (and killing) to 600 yards. Putting a Z8i 0.75-6x20 with BT on an AR-15 shooting 6.8 SPC makes for a gun that can ethically take whitetail to 300 yards (and is very soft-shooting for the kids).
I was recently watching a video of some guys hunting Cape buffalo in the marsh swamp of Mozambique, it was mostly longer-range shooting of animals out of a herd, but when coming up on a wounded animal, it was a scary-looking endeavor as they were in thick marsh reeds. I remember thinking, "Boy, that guy could use a wider-angle view like the Swaro 0.75x affords".
I've never been buffalo or bear hunting, but those hunts are on my "bucket list" - right now, I can't think of a more versatile scope for my .375 H&H than the Swaro Z8i 0.75-6x20. And, when I hunt buffalo, I might even consider putting a ballistic turret on it just in case I run in to some plains game that I want to take at longer distance.
Just my .02,
Mark D.
I have one, and I like it, but I'm using it for a unique application.
We don't have much in the way of "driven" hunting here in the USA (though I wish we did - particularly with pigs). However, I stalk pigs, and when I do so during the day, the Swaro Z8i 0.75-6x20 is the scope that I've been using on my upcalibered AR-15. During the daytime, I use a handheld thermal device to help me sneak-up on "sounders" of swine in the palmetto swamps in which I hunt pigs. When hunting with the my original Z6i 1-6x24, there were times that the pigs would run toward me (inadvertently rather than charging me), and I wondered how the wider-angle of the 0.75x might help that. Well, I can report that it works well having an extreme "wide-angle" when right-up on running animals. BTW, I'm using one of those little Swaro levers that moves the zoom ring, and I'm typically shooting off of sticks.
I haven't used the 0.75-6x20 in real low-light, but it can get dim in the swamp, and the scope performs admirably to my 50 y.o. eyes.
As an aside (and though I realize this is another example of a very unique case), the ability to put a ballistic turret on the Swaro Z8i 0.75-6x20 and the 1-8x24, makes them extremely versatile scopes for those of us using AR-15s and AR-10s to hunt in the Southeast USA. I can go from shooting close-in to far-out. Putting a Z8i 1-8x24 with BT on a .308 AR-10 with short barrel (and suppressor) makes for a relatively compact gun that's capable of easily shooting (and killing) to 600 yards. Putting a Z8i 0.75-6x20 with BT on an AR-15 shooting 6.8 SPC makes for a gun that can ethically take whitetail to 300 yards (and is very soft-shooting for the kids).
I was recently watching a video of some guys hunting Cape buffalo in the marsh swamp of Mozambique, it was mostly longer-range shooting of animals out of a herd, but when coming up on a wounded animal, it was a scary-looking endeavor as they were in thick marsh reeds. I remember thinking, "Boy, that guy could use a wider-angle view like the Swaro 0.75x affords".
I've never been buffalo or bear hunting, but those hunts are on my "bucket list" - right now, I can't think of a more versatile scope for my .375 H&H than the Swaro Z8i 0.75-6x20. And, when I hunt buffalo, I might even consider putting a ballistic turret on it just in case I run in to some plains game that I want to take at longer distance.
Just my .02,
Mark D.
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Thankyou Mark, very much appreciated.
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Re: Swarovski .75-6x20
This video made me think, “the Swarovski 0.75x would’ve been very useful!”
https://youtu.be/-8ia1icbqJc
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https://youtu.be/-8ia1icbqJc
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