Riflescope Nightforce NXS - 2.5-10x42mm

Product detailed description

Key Benefits

• Durability built for hard use – Nightforce checks finished riflescopes for forward and side impact and tests recoil resistance in multiple axes at accelerations exceeding 1,250 G. The rugged construction helps preserve zero through hard handling and heavy recoil.
• Precise, repeatable tracking – Every riflescope is checked for tracking accuracy. The adjustments respond consistently, so the correction dialed matches the actual point-of-impact shift and the mechanism returns reliably to its starting value. Once zeroed, ZeroStop provides a hard stop. The shooter can return to zero quickly after any amount of elevation dialing without counting turret revolutions.
• Combat- and competition-proven NXS heritage – Nightforce built its Rugged, Reliable, Repeatable reputation on NXS riflescopes. These models have served in dangerous places around the world and won at the highest levels of competition.
• Quality glass in a precisely matched optical system – Nightforce multi-element objectives are carefully matched and centered to deliver high resolution, accurate color and a clean image with minimal distracting aberration. The difference becomes most useful in poor light and at higher magnification, when the shooter must resolve fine target detail and surrounding conditions.
• Durable broadband anti-reflective coatings – Every air-to-glass surface receives Nightforce proprietary broadband coatings. They improve light transmission and contrast, and their abrasion resistance exceeds demanding military requirements.
• MIL-R reticle developed for real shooting – Provides clear mil references for ranging and correction without an unnecessarily dense grid. In the second focal plane the reticle remains visually fine, but its subtensions must be used at the specified calibration magnification.
• A light, proven workhorse – Compact dimensions, low weight and generous elevation travel make the 2.5–10x42 a strong fit for lightweight precision rifles, duty carbines and hard-use hunting systems.

Intended User and Application

NXS - 2.5-10x42mm is a compact rugged optic for lightweight precision, hunting and duty rifles. Compact dimensions, low weight and generous elevation travel make the 2.5–10x42 a strong fit for lightweight precision rifles, duty carbines and hard-use hunting systems. This exact configuration uses the MIL-R reticle, .1 MRAD adjustments, the ZeroStop system and DigIllum, with a Black finish.

Image Quality and Optical System

Nightforce multi-element objectives are carefully matched and centered to deliver high resolution, accurate color and a clean image with minimal distracting aberration. The difference becomes most useful in poor light and at higher magnification, when the shooter must resolve fine target detail and surrounding conditions. Every air-to-glass surface receives Nightforce proprietary broadband coatings. They improve light transmission and contrast, and their abrasion resistance exceeds demanding military requirements.

Reticle, Focal Plane and Illumination

The MIL-R reticle provides clear mil references for ranging and correction without an unnecessarily dense grid. Its second-focal-plane placement keeps the image visually fine, but angular values apply only at the specified calibration magnification. The illumination system improves aiming-point visibility, with intensity selected for ambient light.

Turrets and Mechanical Performance

Every riflescope is checked for tracking accuracy. The adjustments respond consistently, so the correction dialed matches the actual point-of-impact shift and the mechanism returns reliably to its starting value. Once zeroed, ZeroStop provides a hard stop. The shooter can return to zero quickly after any amount of elevation dialing without counting turret revolutions. The .1 MRAD adjustment unit belongs to this coded version and must match both the ballistic data and the reticle units. The PTL provides fast, positive magnification changes, including with gloves.

Technical Specifications

• Magnification / objective diameter: 2.5–10x / 42 mm
• Focal plane: second (F2)
• Main tube: 30 mm
• Length / weight: 302 mm / 581 g
• Click value: .1 MRAD
• Elevation travel: 100 MOA / 29 MRAD
• Parallax adjustment: 25 yd / 23 m to infinity
• Eye relief: 85 mm
• Reticle: MIL-R
• Illumination: DigIllum
• Finish: Black

Mounting and Configuration Selection

Use quality rings or a one-piece mount sized for the 30 mm main tube. Select mount height around the objective housing, barrel profile, rail and a natural head position behind the rifle. With Nightforce, magnification range alone is not enough: the MIL-R reticle, .1 MRAD click value, turret type and focal plane materially change how the scope is used.

Practical Note from neoPATRON

Confirm the calibration magnification for the exact reticle in its manual. Do not rely on the CF2 name alone for earlier variants, as different versions may use different calibration points.