Though I spent most of my shooting life shooting mid grade glass I have been freeing up some cash lately to climb the ladder. I now have several Bushnell Tactical 3.5x21 GD2s as well as a SWRA SSHD and one Nightforce 5x22x56 MLR Mil mil scope. But even though I have not cracked the $2000 barrier yet for a purchase I always look at the higher end stuff such as S&B, Khales, Zeiss, Swarowski, etc. Recently I found a local dealer with the new Mark 8 3.5-25X scope and to me it seems to have most everything I am looking for. At a retail of over $4000 I guess it should but since I am still inexperienced in this strata I am not sure what all I should be looking at. I know the Mark 8 can be had for well under that price so my questions are not related to price but rather for general info on the scope.
If there is something significantly better in the $3000 range what do you think it is and why? Even compared to the high end Zeiss and Swarowski etc the Leupold had great glass and its feature set seems pretty nice too. I still have not 100% decided to spend this kind of cash on optics but if I do is this the one?
If there is something significantly better in the $3000 range what do you think it is and why? Even compared to the high end Zeiss and Swarowski etc the Leupold had great glass and its feature set seems pretty nice too. I still have not 100% decided to spend this kind of cash on optics but if I do is this the one?