Re: High End Tactical: East vs West
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LibertyOptics</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ilya,
Nice job, man. I guess I need to see through a March out in the field becuase I really didn't like it "inside the convention center". It might be the relative lack of contrast and limited depth of field, but in my mind the March comes nowhere as close as Premier, S&B, Hensoldt or IOR in terms of optical enjoyment. But, I'm willing to revisit that if I'm that far off base. What about the tiny exit pupil at the higher mags, how was brightness? Was the image really that good at 25x?
Also, the zero stop on the March, does it allow you to slip the turret to zero on the knob and then lock it, or does it just lock the knob right where it sits after you sight in?
You need to check out the 3.5-18x50 IOR!
Scott </div></div>
At 25x, the exit pupil is indeed tiny, but within that limitation, the image quality is superb. It obviously does not look as bright as larger exit pupil at lower magnifications on the March, but the amount of detail visible at 25x is still impressive.
Either way, there is no way to tell how your eyes will agree with this scope even in the field, unless you try it. Historically (and we have talked about it), you seem to clearly favor optics with a lot of contrast. It is just the way your eyes work. I think if you took a look through a March scope in the field, you would like it a lot more than inside the convention center, but you would still likely prefer the image through scopes with different contrast/resolution compromises.
As far as resetting the turret to zero goes, I did not try the exact thing you are talking about, but I am pretty sure you can slip it show "0" on the knob with the Zero Stop engaged.
On IOR 3.5-18x50: I would love to look at one, but I need to figure out what I can compare it to. I obviously have my 3-18x42 IOR and the 10x42HD Super Sniper, so the baseline is still the same, but it would be very interesting to look at some other high end scope with similar magnification range. Alternatively, I can simply look at it as a "3-18x42 vs 3.5-18x50: what do you get for that extra cash and weight of the scope". I need to think about that a little bit.
ILya
