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Whats your favourite Hawke, past or present?

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I only hunt and always liked the 25mm tubed airmax's however its easy to loose the crosshairs on dusk with them isnt it.

So Ive got one of the last Panorama 4-12x50 models which is basically an airmax with IR still 25mm tubed and lightweight, big field of view lovely crosshair and glass one of my all time favourite Hawkes, lighter than the last 30mm airmax I bought, but I must have had at least 50 hawkes.

Whats your favourite hawke scope and why?
 
None of them, only used the vantage line but got fed up returning them under warranty. Quickly replaced them with older/vintage scopes and never looked back since (No pun intended😉) so far, no issues with any of them.
 
The Vantage 2-7x32 AO/IR is a lovely little scope.

Airmax glass is better, but reticle is fine as you say and can get lost; the 30mm illuminated Airmax models are heavy and have those silly long turrets.

If they could put illumination in the 25mm Airmax 2-7 they’d sell very well I think.
 
The panorama line was excellent. I've had several and still have a 2-7x32 that will never leave my possession. They were offered with AO or non-AO. My preference was always non-AO. After a bit of DIY re-paralaxing my 2-7 will focus down to a few metres and out to 35 at 6x mag, with a nice wide FOV and very bright and clear optics for the price point. Perfect for airguns.
Always thought it a shame they don't offer the Airmax in non-AO.
 
Engraver said:
I only hunt and always liked the 25mm tubed airmax's however its easy to loose the crosshairs on dusk with them isnt it.

So Ive got one of the last Panorama 4-12x50 models which is basically an airmax with IR still 25mm tubed and lightweight, big field of view lovely crosshair and glass one of my all time favourite Hawkes, lighter than the last 30mm airmax I bought, but I must have had at least 50 hawkes.

Whats your favourite hawke scope and why?
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Don't tell everyone!
They will all want one and then they will get even more hard to track down and afford!
 
Hi haven't tried that many but what I have is:

Night eye 3-9*50 non AO
Air max 4-16x50 FFP
Vantage 3-9 x 40, 22 LR non AO
Panorama 4-12 x 50

The air max is pretty nice to look through, but suffers stiff parallax and zoom controls.

The panorama is always very pleasant to look through and the reticle is easy to live with.

The higher up ones like the sidewinder seem very nice but there's a lot of good scopes in those price ranges .
 
Massive fan of the frontier versions , earlier 1 inch tubes are niiiice glass but ret can be a little fine , but since my cataract op I can see them better

but push come to shove a 2-7 or 4-12 airmax is all you need (y)
 
32mm Vantage kicking about that gets stuck on any gun in for testing and always performs well - cracking little scope for little money
 
Juddy said:
hawke sidewinders 8-32x56 my fav
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I find 6x is my comfortable mag, and I have no need for anything as much as 32x, so the 6-24x56 will do for me, which I hope to get at the end of the month. Other than that, I like the 4-16x50 Vantage on my Steyr (if I get the other one, I'll swap that onto the Steyr and put the Vantage on my Prosport.) I have an old 6-24x42 Hawke on my Phoenix which is still a nice bit of kit.
 
Only had one Hawke, my Airmax 2-7x32.
First one went faulty and replacement I'm not impressed with.
The AO is way out and far too stiff and I'm not that impressed with the glass.
 
Personally I love the AMX ret, I have about a dozen of the 2-7x32's and a couple of the slightly larger objective side focus ones.
Going back a fair few years I was a big fan of the SR6 and SR12's, if they'd made those with a smaller objective I'd probably still be using them (most were 44 and 50mm).
As mentioned, if they did an illuminated version of the AMX 2-7 x32 like they do with the mildot Vantage it'd be perfection.
 
Goshawk is mine. 😁

Oh, hang on, you mean the other ones, dont you.
I have a few, not noticed a particularly bad one. Do like the amx and ½mil dot rets
 
Pardon this response to the thread title but....
:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

I didn't have a great experience with them. . Homer face palm . The only thing that worked properly was the guarantee. :rolleyes:
I now keep one as a paperweight... a job which it is admirably suited to.
 
For me, the Frontier range are in a class of their own, in a good way. Excellent optics - to my eyes better than any March I have tried and as good as my Vortex PST Gen II - and good build quality. The fine reticle is a problem for some people, but no scope suits everyone. Expensive for a Hawke but you do seem to get what you pay for.

Speaking of reticles, I also like the Airmax scopes, but for me they are spoiled by the AMX reticle (sorry, Mrs H). Too thick and strange markings. No point if you adjust the parallax for distance, and not very helpful if you shoot HFT style, as I usually do.
 
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