My list would be different with a lot of overlap:
- min 2.5X or less, max 10x or more
- FFP
- mil tree reticle, while being BOLD at low end for quick offhand shots (this is the single biggest area most of these scopes fail in)
-good turrets, capped windage and locking elevation. Dont care much about 0 stop, rev counter, etc. easily readable numbers is certainly important.
- Excellent eyebox, particularly at the low end.
-FOV? I dont really care, I shoot both eyes open on the low end (another reason I need a bold reticle) and I sink into the scope from my dot if mounting the rifle when zoomed in.
- decent glass.
- MIL/MIL 0.5, I think this is the best for visibility at mid/lower powers.
- low turrets for overview and piggyback dot
- below 26 oz. Ideally below 22oz or even much less and I would compromise a LOT of other features to get to those lower weights. Next to reticle this is the biggest area where potentially interesting scopes fail in this category.
- illuminated, but i dont care about daylight bright. And I could do without this feature if it saves substantial weight.
- adj parallax
I cannot agree with
@LRRPF52 on the elevation turret. I like to have the option to set a speed drop 0, that gives you all the benefits of a bdc while retaining the benefits of a mil reticle. That is really useful on the type of weapon I would be putting an MPVO on, i.e. not a full blown precision rig.
Moreover I want to be able to quickly set the 0 for different loads. In 5.56 for example, 77smk and 55gr fmj is a .3-.4M difference. I want to be able to switch loads in the field without physically rezeroing the turret.
