Niko Sterling panamax 3-9x40

Air rifle rated version.
$240 at gun city.
Inch scope tube
Comes well packed in box, with it sitting on the little stand in pic and packed either end to stop movement. Has cleaning cloth and booklet.
The turrets are capped but under the caps is marked. One click = 1/4 moa.
The clicks are felt and audible. Finger turnable. Turret caps have a rubber seal between cap and body of scope.

The zoom is smooth and easy to turn with a built in ridge on zoom dial.
It goes the opposite way of other scopes ive had zoom on

The retical is part mildot. The glass is clear and presents a picture.
Note this not how it looks through the scope to the naked eye. The ph seems to blow the colour out and gives a way less clear image. This image is to show the retical set up.

Over all it feels solid and well built.
Has a bit of wieght but not anything overboard and not as heavy as the hawk vantage.
Over all first impression is good but the proof is on the pudding.
Still trying to decide if need recoil damping scope mounts or just pit a set of sportmatch mounts and if it gets shaken to pieces then get it repair(joys of lifetime warranty) then put a damping mount on.
So far so good but thought the same of redwin which just couldn't handel it and crapped out.
So thats the unboxing and first impression get back with real testing resaukts in a couple of weeks i guess.

That sounds interesting ec. Ill check it out. I don't like the idea of a recoil reducing scope mount base. Just more to go wrong. Just a bloody good scope would suit me.
Lol two pheasants. That a very quiet pic. Saving them up for farmers son to come out for shoot. Doesn't get hunting in as much since he became a police sargent. So let them hang around till he gets here and has the sort of shooting you dream about pheasant hunting. Im not aware of the game bird seasons thought it was duck season with all the shotties going off around the place.

Hey kruza, how are you finding the Niko scope?