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Rifle Scopes Top tier scope recommendation

Honest question because I have almost zero experience even eyeballing them, let alone shooting with them, but has ZCO finally surpassed TT for top dog Alpha scope?

I have a couple S&B scopes and LOVE them, as well as a couple mid-tier Nightforce, one Swarovski and one Zeiss scope, plus quite a few Leupolds for comparison, but finally looking for new glass for my 280AI. I’m leaning towards another S&B (probably a 6-36), but wondering about current thoughts on the latest offerings from ZCO and TT.

My subjective opinion owning many of both, I still prefer TT if forced to rank.

Turrets
Tool less rezero.
My preferred reticle. Gen3
My eye feels the TT has more forgiving eyebox on higher mag than the 5-27 ZCO.

LaRue MBT is still an option at $115?

I only use the hammer spring with the MBT2S and dont use any of the other springs in the JP spring kit. I have 4 or 5 setup exactly like this with JP springs and have well over 50k rounds on these AR's, summer, winter, CCI, Federal, Remington, factory primed LC, factory primed AAC, never had a problem with igniting a round.
I have several JP Hammer springs in my box of lower receiver small parts. I might try that.

AlumaHyde 2 Experiment

If hanging, make a knot with a tail, run through the barrel, loop and hang. Receivers, roll up heavy paper, tightly coiled, insert into receiver and let it uncoil.Cut it to length in order to get the tang, etc. For barrels short enough to fit into the oven, cut a wooden block for balance, post a rod into that and insert into barrel ends, allows you to hang for painting but transfer to the blocks. If you have a week, this time of year it is plenty hot in the attic or make a small box or piece of flu pipe, etc. to act as an oven in the sun. If painting anything with joints, clean, degrease, heat, degrease and wipe down with 90% alcohol or acetone as lubes will weep from them. Remember, certain rubber, plastics, etc that may need to flex do not play well with AH II.

DO NOT use in an area that you do not want it on as it sucks on garage floors, worse yet your wife's car!

AlumaHyde 2 Experiment

I'd planned to heat gun the barrel daily for a week and then let sit a couple/few weeks, but if there is no smell the oven cure...Bro, I'm all in for that! Seriously, no smell? I suppose the oven must be clean with no food stains?

Seriously, no odor. I think it’s because it’s a coating that either doesn’t have VOC’s or doesn’t have much; that’s why it takes heat or a long time to cure. Literally did it in the morning, baked it for 2-3 hours, and no odor.
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