Re: My new US Optics SN-3 3.8-22x
The 3.8-22 is in my opinion the perfect setup for practical precision shooting, and with the DFP reticles on the horizon the conundrum of FFP reticles being too big ot two small will be an argument of the past. As they are currently, I have had no isssues with my favorite reticle (mil MPR) shooting from 11 yards to 1000, shooting F-Class or banging steel, and the reticle is usable for holds and windage down to 5ish power.
22X is not really "extra" magnification, but allows a closer look for spotting and use on small or harder to identify targets.
Light transmission is less a function of magnification when a scope is built right. Sure if you crank a $100 scope up to 24X they get dim, but a USO SN3 is a quality optical assembly that holds its own (or betters) its equal competition, plus the availability of custom options and a company here in the US that one can pick up the phone and talk to directly can't be matched by most elite glass companies.
The ERGO allows a flexibility in use that one cannot have with a side focus-changes in range and magnification do not affect parallax or focus as easily as they do a side focus. I set me ERGO to be parallax free at the closest midrange targets in a match and usually never touch it unless there are 100yd and in targets too.
