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I am an owner of a Guarder Elcan scope…a month ago I had the chance of testing this scope in a game at the F.R. field. Mounted the scope on my TM Sig552, as I sold my M-4 RIS a few months back. The scope weights in at 650 grams, adjusting the windage from left to right by turning the screw at the front clockwise. Elevation can be adjusted by turning the big wheel just below the scope, turning the wheel forward will lower the cross hair.
HonestJohn is right about the optical quality of this scope…being average, especially when you have to pay around two hundred $$$ for it. The problem with the optic of this scope is that it has a thin cross hair with a thicker line on the bottom for as reticle. I adjusted the cross hair so as to aim at the target on top of the thicker hair just below the thin line. Target acquisition is probably slower than other aimpoint or rifle scopes that I have handled. Also if you have to zero in on a target for a prolong period of time, you will definitively feel the eye ‘string’. Also the 4X magnification cannot be adjusted so that means …no zoom in or zoom out.
One confirm kill was registered during the game at around 120ft out. The subject was inside a house and I only had his arm and shoulder to work on. But this kind of result can be achieve by using the good old iron sight…no need to pop open the champagne yet!!
Other hits were made at different range with mixed results; therefore the usefulness of this scope is somewhat inconclusive.
The one big plus about this product is that by watching so many of our troops deployed oversea carries an Elcan scope on their C7/C8, is nice to have one as a airsoft replica.
I’ll give a five out of ten to this Guarder product.
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