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I had a SIghtron S1 on a257 Roberts 15 years ago, and pulled it off before I sold the rifle. It's been sitting in my safe until September when the oldest bought a new Savage 22LR. I gave him the scope and he put in on the .22. After I shot it, I wondered why I didn't put it on another rifle instead of giving it to him.

I'm interested in this one! Seems like a great option for a lightweight setup.

Aalf, I have the same scope. I called around 9 months ago because they said you could get a retrofit zero stop installed, but didn't have it yet. Waited a few months,and called back and was told you couldn't. Not sure what the real story is anymore. Mine is on a 6 SLR and I regularly dial past one rotation so be nice to have ZS

I've got a couple of SIII 8-32's and one SIII 6-24 on prairie dog rifles. They compare favorably to my nightforce 8-32 in tracking and glass quality. They don't have zero stops or illuminated reticles so they're not loaded with features, but they're great scopes.

The new S-Tacs have Zero Stop.

I had the S3 6-24 x 50 on my 3084FTR. Perfect tracking and return to zero and great glass. Needed a zero stop

Met a couple guys from I think it was twizel when I was up the Huxley forks valley that both ran the sightron 6-24 and both reported nothing but glowing reports after running them a few years.

They were as keen and fit hunters of upper middle age as i’ve Ever ran across. Literally 30-40 weekends a year tramping across the southern alps for Tahr, cham and stags.

I have (4) Sightron scopes:

1) SIII 3.5 x10x 44 Mil dot $400 6/5/2014 ebay
2) SIII 3.5x 10x 44 MOA $550 6/10/2014 Ebay
3) SIII 3.5-10x44mm $709.99 01/09/18 Nachez
4) SIII 3.5-10x44mm Illuminated MOA-3 $752.00 04/01/18 Ebay

Browning 1885 7mmRM
Sav 110 280AI
Rem 700 7mmSTW
Dumoulin Mauser 6.5-06


What I like about Sightron scopes..... just about everything but the turrets are too easy to rotate. I like em child proof.

If you noticed the scratching on the ammo box, the 40-X has a 40 MOA base on it, which gives me 82 MOA up, and 18 down.

So I'm just past one complete rotation off the bottom of the scope, so it's easy to remedy if I get lost on the dial.

So in reality, a zero stop would be nice, but it's not a necessity for me.

I have that same scope on my Rem 541-THB rimfire. It's a great scope. I used the SII 36X and Big Sky 36X on my rimfire benchrest rifles and really liked them. There might be better optics out there but I wasn't bird watching. All I needed was to be able to clearly see the target and to have the scope make precise adjustments. The Sightron performed at a high level. I much preferred it to the Weaver and Leupold scopes that I tried on BR rifles.

What did people do before zero stops?

Oh that's right...slowed down and paid attention to what they were doing!!!!!!

If someone is deadset on needing a zero stop to get thru life then they need to go back and learn basic marksmanship.