Recovering Leupold Fanboi new to .22lr looking for input between these 2 scopes. It was easy to drink the big L cool-aid when I was Pro-staff and got XX% off distributor, with Leupold firing my employer and moving distribution in house now not so much.
Son and I sold off our Luppy 2nd FF scopes and we really like the new XTR IIIi and Pro. Picked up a XTR Pro Tremor5 for his Howa 308 build. If we had not used 1 of my 3 yearly insider purchases on a set of signature rings I would buy of both of the 3s. Going to have to pick one and wait for the year to reset.
Looking for better glass for my Savage MKII FV-SR in a MDT LSS-RF chassis. I’M 66 this month and I find eye strain sets in quicker shooting the Arken SH4 GEN2 6-24x50 than behind a MK5 or MK6. Shooting is mostly pinking until we extend our home range out to 250Yds. most of the small bore competition is silhouette near me in North Central Florida. Hoping NLR22 will catch on up here on the Fl. Ga. line
Plan is to move the Arken to a Wally World Zombie Boyd’s MKII for the grandson to shoot base class and run the XTR3 on the open MDT gun.
The specs for exit pupil and eye relief seem to be equal on both scopes.
Larger FOV, lower Weight, shorter length, and 30 more MOA elevation with closer to bore mounting of a 50 mm Obj. are pluses to me on paper for the 18X.
The only ting I see I’m giving up would be resolution 30x for really far small targets and another 5 yd. lower parallax and possibly a bit more low light performance. Some would argue 56mm “Gathers” more light but my Luppy brainwashing says “light gathering” is a myth and low light performance is a function of coatings and exit pupil. In theory same exit pupil and same coating the low light performance should be the same. Meatspace results may be different. (flamesuit on)
A bunch of BS to ask will if I miss the higher magnification of the 30x? is it worth the other trade offs??
Son and I sold off our Luppy 2nd FF scopes and we really like the new XTR IIIi and Pro. Picked up a XTR Pro Tremor5 for his Howa 308 build. If we had not used 1 of my 3 yearly insider purchases on a set of signature rings I would buy of both of the 3s. Going to have to pick one and wait for the year to reset.
Looking for better glass for my Savage MKII FV-SR in a MDT LSS-RF chassis. I’M 66 this month and I find eye strain sets in quicker shooting the Arken SH4 GEN2 6-24x50 than behind a MK5 or MK6. Shooting is mostly pinking until we extend our home range out to 250Yds. most of the small bore competition is silhouette near me in North Central Florida. Hoping NLR22 will catch on up here on the Fl. Ga. line
Plan is to move the Arken to a Wally World Zombie Boyd’s MKII for the grandson to shoot base class and run the XTR3 on the open MDT gun.
The specs for exit pupil and eye relief seem to be equal on both scopes.
Larger FOV, lower Weight, shorter length, and 30 more MOA elevation with closer to bore mounting of a 50 mm Obj. are pluses to me on paper for the 18X.
The only ting I see I’m giving up would be resolution 30x for really far small targets and another 5 yd. lower parallax and possibly a bit more low light performance. Some would argue 56mm “Gathers” more light but my Luppy brainwashing says “light gathering” is a myth and low light performance is a function of coatings and exit pupil. In theory same exit pupil and same coating the low light performance should be the same. Meatspace results may be different. (flamesuit on)
A bunch of BS to ask will if I miss the higher magnification of the 30x? is it worth the other trade offs??
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. The XTRIII is pretty easy to get behind, as are most 18x optics in general. The Burris has very nice edge to edge glass that I know impressed some Leupy shooters running 18x MK5s at the PRS Rimfire Finale in Texas a couple years back. It's definitely nicer than the Leupold.
Oh well, so is the quality the same on the 5.5-30x56? Or is it better, like you said the 3.3-18x50 is?
while the rest of us have to pay full retail 
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