Monstrum Meme Scope, G2 6-24x50mm FFP Mini Review
These next couple mini reviews, I'm going to cover some lesser priced optics. I think it is important to see what your money buys you in context. Sometimes I find high priced optics in this weird realm of being justifiable to me, but other people aren't able to tell a difference.
An anonymous contributor sent me this optic to play with. I spent a few minutes doing some tracking tests, playing with controls, and looking at glass.
Today is overcast and rainy, so not the best day for seeing chromatic aberration, but a good day for seeing how light behaves, sharpness, things like that.
I recently did one of these with the Optika 6, so this will be the reference comparison for this optic and the next optic I'm doing.
About MonstrumMonstrum is a company that has been around for a long time producing very cheap Chinese import optics/mounts/accessories of... questionable quality. I've bought Monstrum parts before and had them break. It's a thing that happens.
Usually, the recipe is cast potmetal grade aluminum, simple dopey designs, and competing with Piney and CVLife on prices.
This particular optic is a G2 6-24x50 FFP, notionally priced at $200 including optic rings - so competing with the Vortex Crossfire and other very entry level options.
Here is what their customers have to say:
this optic is a dream. Experiencing amazing lens quality and FFP for such an amazing price is unmatched in the world of optics... I do have to mention that the illumination did not work properly...
These scopes are clear and strong. I'm sold on monstrum scopes
Nice, crisp view and adjustments. Very good, easy to adjust, clear crisp view.
Total BADASS scope! Powerful and buff, ty for a great, outstanding product Monstrum Tactica! I just bought both mounts from Monstrum Tactical as well to fit either on AR or .308!! Thank you again!!
best scope for the money shot a fly at 900yards this scope see's thru souls!!!!
I had a $600 optics budget and other names like Leopold, Primary Arms, Sightmark, Vortex all made the short list but the best value, in the bunch was the G3.
(5 stars) I love Monstrum tactical and have been very satisfied with products except this scope that I am returning. It was on a AR 6mm arc rifle and it has very little recoil. After firing the optics would be like unclear, cloudy and make following shots very difficult. I am a former marine, been shooting since 1962, shot at camp Perry 3 times and I know good optics. That scope does not have adequate optics. I will continue to buy from Monstrum. Please just refund my credit card ending in (he gave his credit card in the comment). (and then his name) (and then his phone number)
(5 stars) I bought this for a Mossberg Patriot and had an issue off the start. A seal inside the scope had come loose but wasn't visible until you changed the magnification. ...
Anywho, I will not be so kind.
The GlassI was really excited to look at a bottom tier scope again in many years.
I mounted it to my tripod adapter, opened the sliding glass door, pointed it at the target, looked through the glass and thought
'Oh, I must have forgotten to open the sliding glass door'
Look up, and... nope. Sliding glass door was open.
Also, funny side anecdote. I copied the pictures off my phone just now as I am making the album, open up one of the pictures to crop it and thought 'wow, that's really good looking, maybe I'm misremembering'. Then I recognized the reticle. It was a picture through my Optika 6 in the wrong spot in the folder.
Another funny anecdote. I cleaned the lens on my camera, take my first picture, and my phone app says 'please clean the camera lenses for better picture quality'. I thought that was an odd thing to say... until I saw the picture it took.
Okay, so stay with me for a second:
- The crud on the objective lens
- The crud on the ocular lens
- The little blurry silver shimmers on the lower left and middle left, a few other spots. That is not on the focal plane of the ocular lens. That is out of focus.
3, that is the crud being captured in the picture before 1. That is crud INSIDE the scope. You can't clean it off without disassembling the scope.
I was trying to capture some of the crazy light reflections inside the scope from the lack of baffling and I also found this yucky blob of goo - it looks like a dark smudge in this picture, but with your eyes, you can clearly see it is a 3D blob stuck on the side, like grease or squeeze plastic or something.
Through the glass, I would call it 'cloudy grey brown' tinted.. There is a lot of CA. It doesn't seem to get too sharp. And everything is foggy brown.
This seems to be a common pattern with very entry level scopes.
It is also noticeably dimmer than the other two optics I'm reviewing in this series at the same magnification.
Illumination didn't work for me at all, so I can't say much about that.
The reticle design doesn't make sense. It is a hashed MOA reticle with different intervals on the X and Y, with no numerical markings. I found myself counting marks on my fingers and then trying to figure out the multiplier to do the tracking test. X axis, they are every 2 MOA.
The Turrets/ControlsSponge with clicks. Very not good. Not consistent where the clicks are, difficult to get the markings to line up, and a lot of wiggle before the clicks happen.
I'm pretty certain the turrets on this one were totally defective. As you rotate the turrets up and down, it would get 'sticky spots' inside where effort to turn would double, triple, quadruple, or even seem totally hard stop. If it didn't hard stop, you could turn through the sticky spots to clear spots, but the sticky spots would move around randomly and wouldn't be in the same spot in the turret rotation. When there were hard stops, that also moved around randomly.
One test, I spun up +6 MOA, hit a hard wall, spun down - a bunch, spun up way past were I started and got stuck all the way up to the max of the turret range, spun back down -15 before hitting a hard stop, spun up 6 MOA before hitting a hard stop, then spun down to the bottom of the range again. Totally crazy. Like having a zero stop crossed with a puzzle box on a scope with no intended zero stop.
One time, as I was doing the tracking test, I got a 'sticky spot', and as I spun through it, the reticle shifted 10 MOA left for no discernible reason.
Tracking with the reticle, when I could get clean adjustments, I observed about a 95% accuracy on elevation doing a tall target spin with the reticle as the indicator, and about a 100% accuracy on windage.
I could definitely imagine that someone could get a decent one out of the box and if they didn't use it too much and hadn't experienced issues, probably do okay dialing out to distance with it.
The turrets were easy to spin, but the side focus and magnification were very stiff. All of the knurling was unbroken and sharp. Just that little fiddling around left my magic fingers sore.
Final ThoughtsPlease don't buy this optic. You can get the SWFA SS fixed power scopes for similar money on sale, except you need to buy rings. Save your pennies and get that.
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