K16i is excellent. Eye box is stellar. Glass is stellar. Illumination is good, not great but not really necessary due to the reticle design (Sm-1) and SFP. A friend had issues with two that had to go back to kahles, one that had the reticle orientation out of whack from the factory, the other with a similar problem after being run on a 23e beltfed MG. I have one on my go-to 5.56 carbine and love it. Prior to that it lived on a 308 gas gun and was well suited in that role.
NX8 is a great optic within the design parameters set out for it, namely a very compact and lightweight 1-8x. Illumination is thermonuclear bright. Reticle is very good and also useable without illumination. Glass is good. Eyebox is expectedly tight on 8x and some NX8 I’ve looked through had a decent amount of peripheral distortion on 1x, while others had none.
I have the ATACR 1-8 on my 308 gas gun and really like that optic. Awesome glass. Great eyebox. Great reticle. Great illumination (though not quite as good as nx8) with a reticle that’s useable without illumination.
The jury is still out on the vortex 1-10. A friend has one, so hopefully I’ll soon get some time behind it.
With optics I think you need to actually shoot them to see what you like. Unfortunately for most, this means buy it, try it, keep it if you like it, sell it and try something else if you don’t like it.
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