Just did. Yours is .250 MOA but their website only shows .30 MOA. Maybe you got an older model that was more than just center only illumination?

Learning lesson for sure, dont buy optics without making sure they are as they're being advertised. It'll make someone a good day rig scope.

No, it shows 30 MOA of hash marks on the elevation axis.

So why not ask the seller for a refund?

Im not saying the seller adverised wrong. Im saying nightforce advertised wrong. I emailed nightforce the same pics I posted here, they said that is normal for the shv. Their exact words were the illumination is reflecting off and onto the many internal components.

Pretty ridiculous. If they can't make an illuminated reticle work properly in a $1000 scope, they should just omit the feature.

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Never hurts to ask. When I sell something on a forum, I always want the buyer to walk away satisfied. Same when I buy.

I dont know what experience he has or knows about illuminated reticles. How can I fault him if nightforce says this scope is as they say it's suppose to be?

Im disappointed in nightforce not the seller. If NF would have said yeah that scope has a problem then id take it up with the seller.

For the most part NF puts out some nice optics. The illuminated shv isnt on that list in my opinion.

He is a seller and gave you a specific representation in response to a specific question on this exact issue that was important to you. What if he told you it was a NXS and it wasn't even if he did not know the difference? If you don't want to ask that certainly is your choice.

Are you now going to sell it to someone else after saying it does not work right, or is the issue really that it is not center only illumination?

It's listed in the forum classifieds, Im not trying to hide anything, theres a 6 page thread on this scope. I listed in the ad im not fond of the reticle. No I dont think the illumination is as it should be. But according to NF that's just they way the shv is. I bought it for night hunting, it wont work for me like it is. But many many times in this thread Ive said it'd be a good day scope. Someone will get a good deal on a NF SHV that doesnt need illumination.

The red flare coming from the edge of the glass is the main issue I have besides the center illumination issue. Think of it like this, you call in a Coyote at night, he's 100 yards out. The light man has him in the red spotlight. You try to get on him in the scope and theres a bright red flare coming from the edge of the scope and drowns out the coyote. At night it doesnt take alot of red to wash out a coyote or whatever. If the reticle is too bright itll wash the target, much less this flare.