Thread: T-Eagle IMAX HD 2-16x44 Review

Just want share my experience with this scope and the brand generally, 6 years in. Initially, after some research, I got in contact with the owner of the brand, Mr Yang, a rather nice and generous man. After explaining my view on his product and the lack of online reviews, he sent me two scopes. One to pass around and review with. and the other one which was still a prototype, to evaluate with.

Over the past 6 years, it lived on several 22LRs, seen quite a bit target shooting and small game hunting. For the last 6 months, it has been mounted on a powerful springer airgun, the TX200 Mark 3. I thought I should my experience thus far:

1. The scope does not dial accurately within small amount of dials. This is very common with mid and low end scopes. If you were to dial 10 MOAs, it will be close enough, but if you were to dial 3 clicks (0.75 MOA). it will be a little off. I think it is to do with the gears and springs in the erector not being very smooth and crisp, so there is small amount of "stickiness" to it for lack of better words for it. In air gun shooting, you need to compensate for the pellet's tragectory all the time. Dialing is not really an option with this scope.

2. So how do I use it for airgun shooting then? By using it reticle markings, which has worked quite reliably. Of course these days all Chinese scopes are equipped with tactical reticles so there is nothing special about this. But if it works it works. I shoot field target, silhouette, and paper target at various distances. I usually come 1st to 3rd at our local club in springer class. During the club shoots, maximum range is 45 meters which the 10 grain pellet will drop 1.2mil. I can reliably make the shot using the reticle markings. I have also shot 5cm targets at 85 meters, which requires 6 mils of drop. The furthest I have stretched this scope on a 22LR was 175 m, 6.4mil drop, hitting a steel gong.

3. The scope holds zero surprisingly well. Not only was it has been flawless on 22LR, it held up excellently on the airgun as well. Each club session I would shoot about 70~100 shots. on top of that I also shoot at home from time to time. Since it has been mounted on the airgun a couple thousand shots have been fired. Zero just stays where it is. This scope is not advertised as airgun rated by the way, and this is a powerful airgun too. Yesterday the club event was field target, I had a rather average day and had a score of 40 out of 50.

4. While I dont abuse my gear, I do put them to a lot of use. Parallex adjustment gets used every time I aim at a different target. Magnifications ring gets moved around for different disciplines. The metal flip covers go up and down for almost every shot. The front one still works perfectly but back flip cover has lost its friction in the hinge is gone, it flips down too easily so I took it off.

For the last 6 years, I have used and tried: VX5HD 3-15, LHT 3-15x50, Burris 3-15, Riton x5 3-18. In terms of image quality at maximum magnification, the T-eagle is behind the VX5 and the LHT, about the same as the Burris, and is better than the Riton. T-eagle as a brand does not seem have made much progress and has not released anything better.