30mm tube 650gm max weight please for the love of god. March have been doing it for what, 10+ years with a stupid 8x erector in the March F 3-24, someone just make that exact thing but 3-18 since the top end is unusable anyway.
So many hopes and dreams of the perfect scope and they never quite...
As long as it's actually light. The market is saturated with 700gm+ scopes, can't imagine yet another being interesting in any new way. Very short on nice and genuinely light options (with 30mm tubes!)
But noone has really cracked it perfectly
March? Reticles too thin, too much zoom range.
TT315 - too heavy
MK5/Mk6 34/35mm tubes
Vortex LHT should have been 3x bottom end
Etc
My old 3.5-10 M5 leupy Mk4 FFP is almost closer to an ideal solution than any of the new products. Have a March & Mk6...
Lightweight hunting option closer to 20oz than 30. FFP, a reticle that doesn't need illumination, 30mm tube, doesn't need heaps of zoom ratio, 3-12x42 would be perfect.
Model 7 .223, 18" 1:8 Bartlein, Manners EH8, CDI dbm with Accurate mags modified for full OAL, timney, 80gr ELDMs at 2800fps. Has a March F 3-24 now rather than the old FFP Mk4
Aside from the March and Mk6 there isn't anything good. A lot of us having been wanting something more for years.
I have both March F 3-24 and Mk6 3-18 and I prefer the Mk6 in every way except that it's 34mm tube which isn't quite as nice to find mounts for as a 30mm.
Mine didn't track straight from the factory. I sent it back and now it's flawless. I like it. The only comparable competitor in the weight range is the March F 3-24 which is possibly a better scope although the magnification over 18x is more or less useless and the FML1 reticle isn't as good as...
I've got the Mk6 and I like it, but it's 34mm tube, would prefer 30mm as it gives options for direct mounting using e.g. talley ringmounts rather than a rail etc
Literally a single actual lightweight (550-600gm) 2 or 3x to 12 or 15x 40-45mm FFP 30mm tube scope with half decent quality/reticle/etc on the market would be nice as a hunter that wants FFP and decent quality/features