Re: Is Schmidt & Bender PM II 5-25x true 5-25X?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: montana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You sound like a huterite in the video. What is the accent?
Your complaint is fairly common in many scopes. I believe a USO canadian I had did the same. My IOR 3-18 does it from 3-4x. My S&B 5-25 does the same. My premier 3-15x does not do this.
Anyone else want to add to this very informative list? </div></div>
LOL, I had to look-up "huterite" on the NET. The accent is Russian (not quite ordinary though).
I think some manufactures do it to trick their competition. From what I read there are technical difficulties associated with variable magnification scopes. Higher magnification on high end yields to smaller field of view and higher magnification on low end. Here are few competitor models:
Nightforce 5.5x22
Leupold Mark 4 ER/T 8.5-25x
Hensoldt ZF 6-24x56
On the paper S&B 5x25 beats them all in terms of lower magnification. It also gives wider range. But the trick is that S&B gives it maximum field of view at 7x, so I would call it effectively 7x25. Still good but not that impressive. Interesting detail that according to the specs Nightforce 5.5x22 has 5.3 meters field of view at 5.5. This is exactly the number S&B gives as at lower end. I wounder if NF performed the same trick.
Now, there is a little twist to the story. If you put togeter S&B and NF specs and replace 5 with 7 for S&B you will get following:
1. NF 5.3m @ 5.5x
2. S&B 5.3m @ 7x
S&B WINS!!! Ironic, isn't it?
It becomes even more ironic when you take into account that S&B is a front focal scope. The reticle becomes harder to see at lower zoom. This is a trade-off one must accept for maintaining proportions. Now you end up with smaller reticle and sight picture at 5x!!! So what is the point of 5-7x on this scope? I see none. In my opinion if they stopped at 7 the would have better device: cranking the magnification all the way down would bring you to a luxury of 5.3 meters at 7x. They would still be very impressive against the competition and avoid all this bitching.
Now I almost spent my 99 post limit. I will leave remaining 2 posts as reserve and take good advice to stop bitching and go shooting
CCCP2K is out
PS. The Internet is information garbage pile, use it on your own risk
But we are not talking about tunneling here.
