A massive tube for which practically no-one makes rings (except Recknagel tube scratchers) all for the sake of some extra elevation adjustment.
There are very few decent scope tests about so getting real information rather than just repeats of marketing blurb and magazine adverts is tricky. This is the most recent "good" double blind scope test I've seen and Zeiss came out top for optics. No Swaro though, but they are connected to Khales who did surprisingly badly if that means anything. I can't see Swaro allowing their scopes to go into a double blind test with Zeiss somehow but it really would be great if someone could get all the common stalking scopes together and apply this chap's methodology to them:
Tactical Scopes: Optical Performance Part 1 | PrecisionRifleBlog.com
Try and read all the details of that test as there is a lot of info in there that people simply overlook, or read off the magazine advert and assume it is correct - the magnification of the S&B was interesting for example as it was nowhere near the mag range that S&B claimed.
The truth of the matter is that all the decent big name scopes are more than adequate for UK deer stalking, I shoot sika at last light in sitka commercial forestry and have no doubt that Zeiss, Swaro, S&B (what i happen to use) and quite a few others would do the job for me. If you must have the best optics then the very few well conducted tests I've seen always put Zeiss first and I personally think Nickel are up there as well but they aren't common around these parts.
There are very few decent scope tests about so getting real information rather than just repeats of marketing blurb and magazine adverts is tricky. This is the most recent "good" double blind scope test I've seen and Zeiss came out top for optics. No Swaro though, but they are connected to Khales who did surprisingly badly if that means anything. I can't see Swaro allowing their scopes to go into a double blind test with Zeiss somehow but it really would be great if someone could get all the common stalking scopes together and apply this chap's methodology to them:
Tactical Scopes: Optical Performance Part 1 | PrecisionRifleBlog.com
Try and read all the details of that test as there is a lot of info in there that people simply overlook, or read off the magazine advert and assume it is correct - the magnification of the S&B was interesting for example as it was nowhere near the mag range that S&B claimed.
The truth of the matter is that all the decent big name scopes are more than adequate for UK deer stalking, I shoot sika at last light in sitka commercial forestry and have no doubt that Zeiss, Swaro, S&B (what i happen to use) and quite a few others would do the job for me. If you must have the best optics then the very few well conducted tests I've seen always put Zeiss first and I personally think Nickel are up there as well but they aren't common around these parts.