NIKKO Stirling’s new Octa range of scopes has one main bragging right: its eight-fold zoom range, the largest magnification ratio you can get in any rifle scope I know of but, because this is a Nikko Stirling, not at the large prices demanded by other brands’ eight-fold scopes. The Octa brings you huge adjustment for a smaller outlay.
This doesn’t come at the cost of quality, either. Nikko Stirling has long proven it can make very good optics at a modest price.
The real advantage of an 8x zoom ratio is that you get both the widest possible field of view and the most up-close magnification in the one