Re: Schmidt & Bender or US Optics
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: EventHorizon</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just so the info is out there, for USO you can get both Premier Reticle GEN2 versions - XL and XR. If you try and do that with the only S&B out there still for sale (it's got MOA turrets) then you're looking at
$3400 for the scope plus tax and shipping
$500 for the MIL conversion plus tax and shipping
$500 for CCW conversion plus tax and shipping.
Rather than say 'by the time you get a USO to SB specs', it's the other way round currently. I don't want to pay $4.5k something that I can get for over a $1k less.
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http://www.eurooptic.com/Schmidt-Bender/...amp;parent=XXSB
There it is, not in stock but cheaper.
You are not losing anything by going with a P4F reticle over a XR or XL, if you want to pay an extra 1k to have a similar reticle, more power to you, but don't try to define the price by the cost of the conversions.
Honestly I have owned both Schmidt and USO and at a similar price point, I would pick Schmidt any day of the week, in fact I have sold all my USOs for Schmidt. With a S&B you are getting WAY better glass (esp in low light), you are getting knobs that are not mushy, more usable illumination and a lighter weight scope that is equally as tough. Plus you have a lower chance of getting a scope with "issues" from the factory. I understand people have "favorite" brands and it is hard to swallow the fact that you paid a good amount of money for a scope that may not be considered the "best" but based on previous scope experience I really cannot imagine anyone choosing USO over S&B if they had the two similar scopes right in front of them for direct comparison.
I have been to the USO shop before and John and Co are really great guys. Part of the original reason why I spent so much on USO scopes was because of their friendly sales and the good vibes I got from them as a team. I would really like to love USO again, but I've gotten too many scopes with issues that needed to be repaired back and forth with them to ever trust their gear. As much as I like the USO team, at the end of the day I would rather spend my money on a scope with fantastic glass that I can trust to work over spending it on goodwill towards a local company.