Looking at buying a new scope. Got it narrowed down between a sightron siii 6-24x 50 or a ziess conquest hd5 5-25x50. I like the zeiss better but lacks moa travel with only 65moa Ill be putting this on a 6.5x47 lapua and was wondering if the zeiss will work out to a 1000 without a moa base? Also which do yall think is better? glass,tracking etc?
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Both really nice scopes for the money. The Zeiss has an advertised 65 moa of total elevation travel, would definitely want a 20moa base if you are going to dial out to 1000y. For the 6.5x47 my ballistic calc calls for about 31moa of up at 1k with a 139g scenar at 2700fps. Too close without a base, IMO. The SFP Sightron has around 100 moa, and the FFP Sightron has around 80 moa of travel. As far as tracking, the SIIIs are known to be spot on reliable with tracking. I haven't heard of issues with Zeiss, but it probably isn't quite as adept to being dialed up and down constantly like the Sightron is. Haven't looked through HD5 yet, they now have the Lou Tec coatings and as supposed to be rockin glass. The Sightrons are among the best glass around 1k in a tactical scope also. Tough choice, but for dialing a lot, I'd choose the SIII.
I like think the siii would serve better the glass is very comparable but the siii has more options and more elevation as you know. I don't know if this conquest now has a 30mm tube but the 1" tube is less light and eye relief and so on. Depending on what rericle you want I believe the siii has better options there as well
I have a 6x24x50 LRMOA & 8x32x56 LRMOA SIII - like them both. You can also get in the mil-dot reticle. No experience with conquest.
