The design is nothing fancy with the knobs sitting up on a rounded and elevated shoulder and the tube, like all good quality tactical scopes these days, is a one piece tube. The scope has a 30mm Tube made from aircraft grade aluminum and is of a traditional design. The scope we reviewed here is the 2.5-10x44mm and comes with a sunshade, bikini cover, lends cloth and some flip up scope caps, though not butler creeks.

I do not believe much changed with the name and their two scope offerings in this sector remain the 2.5-10×44 and the 4-16x50mm.

This scope is known as the Monarch X which if my memory serves me correctly, is a fairly new name for their tactical scopes. Their glass has always been known to be good, especially on their higher end optics. Nikon is well known in the camera world as one of the premier camera and lens makers and they have been making sport optics as well for a long time. The Nikon glass has a good reputation of quality and it sounds like the Nikon Tactical offering was well researched, so we set out to determine how well the scope can serve in this role. These scopes have been out for a while so it was time for us to review one.

This actually happened several years ago when they brought in some tactical experts to help them develop their scope and the Monarch X was the result of that. Nikon has long been a player in the sport rifle scope business and with the boom in popularity that ‘tactical’ scopes have enjoyed over the past decade it was only a matter of time before Nikon got into the tactical scope game.

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