Millett Rifle Scopes Overview: High Quality in 5 Classes

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You can put Millett rifle scopes into 5 classes of optics. At least, that’s what Millett itself does on their website. They group their several offerings into Designated Marksman, Tactical, Long Range, Tactical Red Dot, and SP Red Dot classes.

You could probably argue that some of those groupings could be combined, but since the makers see them that way, I’ll stick to the same arrangement in this overview and review.

All but a few of the current Millett models have a listing on Amazon. If you’re in a hurry and just want to check the pricing and availability of these Millett scopes at Amazon, you can click (tap) the links in the list below.

I realize this list is really too long and it will make more sense after you read the article below, but I’ll present it to you here anyway in case you already have one or two particular scopes in mind.

• Millett BK81424 Designated Marksman
• Millett BK81424A Designated Marksman
• Millett BK81624 Designated Marksman
• Millett BK81001 Tactical
• Millett BK81001A Tactical
• Millett BK81008 Tactical
• Millett BK81004 Long Range
• Millett BK81005A Long Range
• Millett BK81006 Long Range
• Millett BK81007 Long Range
• Millett TRD1X30 Tactical Red Dot
• Millett TRD2001 Tactical Red Dot
• Millett RD00904 SP Red Dot
• Millett RD00005 SP Red Dot
• Millett RD00905 SP Red Dot
• Millett RD00006 SP Red Dot

If you want to skip ahead to a certain grouping of scopes or other section of the article, you can click (tap) a link in the box below. Otherwise, you can keep scrolling (swiping) and reading as usual.

Millett Scopes at Amazon vs Millett Scopes at Optics Oasis

If you look at some of these rifle scopes at Amazon, you may find that whoever first listed them there named them slightly differently from what you see here. I am using the naming convention the Millett uses on their website. Anything you see other than that was creatively assigned by someone else.

What you will see in the comparison tables and lists below also comes from the Millett site and so should be accurate and reliable.

Millett Designated Marksman Rifle Scopes

You can tell a lot about a Designated Marksman scope from its model name. I’m not sure if this was intended, but the “BK” might as well stand for black, since that’s the color of these three scopes. (Note that not all the scopes from Millett are black.)

I don’t know if the “8” has any significance, but the remaining four numbers do. The “14” and “16” refer to the magnification power of the scope: 1-4x and 1-6x respectively.

The “24” tells you the diameter of the objective lens in millimeters. It seems the final “A” on one of these three (and on others later) means that the model comes in camouflage style. (This sort of negates the “BK” at the beginning, but you get the idea.)

All three of these scopes have the following features in common.

• 30mm tube length
• Fully multi-coated lenses
• 3.5 inch eye relief
• 0.5 inch click value at 1000 yards

Millett Tactical Rifle Scopes

The model name of the Tactical line of scopes doesn’t tell you as much, other than the fact that they are black or camo style.

Except for the coloration, the only difference I can see among these is that the click value for the BK81008 is 0.36 inches (0.1 Mil) at 1000 yards, whereas it is 0.25 inches for the other models.

All three Tactical scopes have these features.

• 4-16x power
• 50mm objective lens
• Illuminated Mil-Dot Bar reticle
• Fully multi-coated lenses
• 3.5 inch eye relief
• Weight: 32 oz.
• Length: 406mm

Millett Long Range (LRS) Rifle Scopes

Once again you can think of the “BK” as standing for black and the “A” meaning camo.

The main difference among these Long Range scopes is the reticle.

All the LRS models have 6-25x power and multi-coated lenses.

Millett Tactical Red Dot Rifle Scopes

There are 3 Tactical Red Dot models manufactured by Millett. The TRD0005 is currently not readily available at Amazon. It is virtually the same as the TRD1X30 but has a smaller 24mm objective lens.

As you can tell from the model name, the TRD1X30 has a 30mm objective lens. Both of these models magnify 1x, have a 30mm tube length, a 5 MOA reticle, and 0.5 inch click value.

The TRD2001 is quite different from the others in that it is not a tube style scope at all. It is a sight with the same reticle and click value, but that’s where the similarities end, as you can see in the picture.

Millett SP Red Dot Rifle Scopes

Looking at the model names for design clues one more time, you can tell from these names that the “RD” means Red Dot. What is not quite as obvious is that the “9” in the middle must mean a silver (not black matte) finish.

The RD00904 is listed at Amazon, but the black RD00004 is not. Conversely, the RD00006 is listed, but the silver RD00906 is not.

This last group contains the most difference from one model to the next of any of the classes made by Millett. Examine the table below to see what I mean.

Note that 25.4mm is the same as 1 inch.

I won’t try to explain the Style differences. Simply look at the pictures for your description.

The red dot size on the RD00006 (and RD00906) is adjustable to the four sizes listed: 3, 5, 8, and 10. This is why its style is called Multi-Dot.

Conclusions about the Millett Rifle Scopes

Several years ago, Millett was bought by Bushnell. Bushnell continues to make these scopes under the Millett name.

The quality of these rifle scopes is quite high, despite what you may read in reviews by a few owners. The overall ratings are very good.

To see what is currently available at Amazon, click (tap) here or use the links at the top of this article.

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Gary Sonnenberg

Gary is a bird watcher and amateur astronomer. This means he's set up several bird feeders in his backyard and likes looking at the night sky when the weather is warm. To those ends, he uses optics appropriate for those avocations.

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