Maven RS.4 Review

Every now and then you find out you were wrong.  We all hear about big brand names and immediately assume that anything else is not good enough.  I remember clearly walking by a Maven booth at a Total Archery Challenge event a few years ago.  I barely even gave it any attention, ONLY because I had never really heard of the brand and poorly judged that it wouldn’t be good.  Let me be clear!  I could not have been more wrong!

A year or so after that day at the archery event, I had the chance to begin training and shooting PRS, and training in long range rifle skills.  When I got to build my own rifle, I took advice and suggestions from everyone that I knew of to gain knowledge outside of my own narrow experience.

Maven kept popping up as an outstanding glass, so I decided to do a little background work.  Maven had just released the RS.4  5-30 x 56 rifle scope for long range precision shooting.  I had only ever used an MOA reticle, but I chose the much more detailed CFR-MIL reticle for quick corrections on the clock.  My only previous match experience had been in USPSA and some multigun competitions, so I knew that time pressure and making quick corrections would be prevalent in the matches.

When I opened the box and lined the scope up to see out of it I was rather floored.  The FFP glass was the sharpest and more precise view that I had seen before.  I got the scope mounted onto my rifle quickly thereafter and began working on positions and dry fire drills at home since it was STUPID cold and snowy that February and March when all of my components were able to come together.

The CFR-MIL is much easier to read and understand than I thought.  In my hunting experience, I have only ever used an MOA reticle before since I lived in Georgia for my whole life.  After moving to Utah, I found out that shots under 100 yards on a hunt are few and far between.  I had a ton of work to do on learning to understand the many lines, dashes, and marks.  Once I worked with the scope and began training with live fire, this scope made it all possible!

I found out quickly that the glass MAKES or breaks the shot.  My first rifle was given to me for Christmas by my husband while we were back home in Georgia.  It was a perfect Mossberg .270 that came with a no brand scope in 3-9 magnification.  I had no problem learning to shoot with that MOA scope even out to 200 yards back home.  I truly thought that I was a long range queen!

Upon moving to Utah, I learned that 300-500 yard shots were relatively standard often times.  I took that $200 rifle chambered in .270 and put a nice scope on it.  I thought that it was ridiculous to place a $1000 scope on a $200 rifle.  The day that I sighted that scope in, I shot out to 700 yards at a steel plate!  The right glass is the answer to getting it right.  If you can’t see well what you are shooting at, then you have greatly limited your chance at success.

I now try to frequent the LRT team range, and this Maven scope has been the best thing about learning to shoot long range.  I have the most crisp and clear edge to edge vision on the target.  The magnification is insanely powerful.  The visibility in low light is unbelievable.  There is no interference of clarity in wet conditions due to the fog proofing and waterproof build.

I am strongly compelled to add a RS.4 to a hunting rifle as well.  If I can see clearly to shoot 1300 yards at the team range and feel great while doing it, then hunting at 500-700 yards will seem like a chip shot to my eyes.  I have found that my nerves are made of steel when I see well.  If I cannot get my optics magnified and sharpened in on my target, then I begin to doubt even my most basic fundamental approaches.  Maven eliminated any doubt that I could ever have because 1000 yards looks like 100 yards in this powerful diamond of a scope!

I can hardly wait to shoot my first competition now that I have gotten through the component shortages and FINALLY compiled enough brass, powder, primers, and bullets to load for a match!  I already feel like a champion simply because of the Maven scope, now I just have to do my part well.

Here are a few details about the Maven RS.4 5-30 x 56.  It is a compact 12.8 inches and weighs in at 35.4 oz.  There are 4 different reticle options, and tons choices on customizing your own such as color options and even custom engraving.

If I could go back to that day at Total Archery Challenge and actually pay attention, then I would have found out long ago that Maven is a master at good glass.  The optics make the shot possible!

The Maven is so reliable and user friendly that I took my best friend to the range.  She and I had a CWMU rifle cow hunt coming up and she wanted to work on gaining range with her hunting rifle.  I brought Miss Dee (my 6 Dasher topped of with the Maven scope) and let her try it while we were out shooting.  She hit the 1000 yard target like it was sitting right in front of her!  Her first comment was: “It was so clear and looked so good in the scope.  I forgot how far away it actually was and just took the shot”.  Never doubt that the glass is the best of any rifle…

When it comes time to pick a good scope, I urge you to try Maven.  I happily admit that I was very much wrong about my first assumption.  I will gladly tell anyone!

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RS.4 SPECIFICATIONS