Re: Best scope for $2500?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Later</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...especially since my very first PR went tits up and my replacement is getting replaced with "different" scope lol.
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Like everything man-made, even the best scope does not possess any supernatural powers. Unfotunately, at a certain price point, people expect pretty much nothing short of infallibility from certain products, which nobody can deliver. What you can expect is being taken care of if stuff does happen, which I hope and assume was the case here.
For the individual, a fault (whatever this might have been in this case) is always a huge let-down and people tend to show vigorous reactions, which is something that every manufacturer who enters the market at a high level will encounter at some point, as has been seen in other recent threads. For such a serious topic, there is a lot of emotions going on when it comes to equipment choice.
On a matter-of-fact level, I am pretty confident that a scope design that the US Marine Corps found fit for their use should be good enough for most other shooters from a reliability point of view. The Marines sure weren't easy on our test scopes, and they didn't just "test" them with a couple hundred rounds at the range either, but rather to the end of a life cycle (as far as this can be simulated in months, not years). Remember when those 10K pieces of brass were for sale a couple months ago? That was just part of the whole fun.
Durability and reliability are something where one usally pretty much has to rely on third party sources because few people can afford to destroy a sufficiently large sample size of each candidate. Features and technical data can be compared directly. Look closely at what features you want and what the manufacturer delivers. Especially FOV numbers may differ substantially between seemingly similar models from different manufacturers. Then there is optical quality which is best appreciated in a direct comparison of personal favorites. Always try getting behind the scopes in question before making a decision.