So how much cheaper is it street price than a FFP pst gen 2?
Cant you find the gen 2 for around 800.00?
I wonder if the ~200.00 price difference is really noticeable in the glass.
Not counting limited model sales, LE/MIL/buddy prices when the PST ii 7c first came out no one was selling them under $1000, now you can easily find them for $850, DVOR has them for that every couple weeks. Even with 13% off the best price I've seen for the Strike Eagle was $613, meaning it's less than $250 to go up to the PST 2 for "average joe" street prices right now. Now 6-12 months from now the prices on the Strike Eagle might drop, or we'll see a PST III and they will hard price it back up to $1000+ and the delta will change. So on one hand while it's kind of unfair to compare the just released "beta tester premium" price of the brand new Strike Eagle to a 3+ year old PST II (just with a new reticle) street price, that's the reality of things now. Now I hope a $700 2020 Strike Eagle is better than a 3 year old $700 Vortex, but how close is it to the PST 2, when you're only saving $235. Might be closer than we think with another 3 years of development.
If there's one thing I've learned it's if you are in the $750-$1250 tier for optics, hold out for deals, because unlike the top tier stuff, there are always killer blowouts at least three times a year.
Off the top of my head in the last 2 years:
LRHS 3-18's for $750
LRTS 3-18 for $1000 bundled with a Kestrel Sportsman Ballistic Link
Vortex PST II 5-15's 2D for $675, 5-25's 2D's for $775
Sig Tango 6 3-18's for $850
FX 1000 4-16 illum for $380
Athlon Ares BTR 4-27's for $425
Bushnell is running 25% price rebates at least twice a year.
And there's probably at least a dozen others that I missed.