Sold: Schmidt & Bender 8x56

Hi Alex.
From an engineering point of view you maybe correct. That doesn't mean the scope is faulty..

From a stalking point of view its a perfect scope.
The 8x56 are specifically designed as stalking scope, where most shots are taken ar 50 to 150yrds.

If I was woodland stalking, and came across a deer at 25 yards, I'd be delighted if I could run the following checks through my brain it time
Backstop?
ID season ok?
Shot placement, wound chanel ok?
Backstop ok?
Squeeze....

M
I understand your point on planned distances, and of course having the stock in the same place on one's cheek is basic stuff. However, while looking up 120 to 150 yards along the side of a forest firebreak to where the deer come across every morning, where does one see the deer? Answer is right opposite 25 yards away.
In my search, I found a 30mm S&B Klassic, fitted it to a .270 and will see how we go.
The one on this list that is left is a 25mm, and the price is good so sure it will sell soon.
 
I am looking for another S&B scope and have a question.

S&B are a great company producing some fantastic optics, in fact the best hunting optics I have ever had the pleasure to use. The 8x56 Klassic made in Hungary though is their most basic model. I looked at a S&B 8x56 Klassic a month ago with a view to buy it and though the image was bright, focus was perfect, image clarity was spot on, I did not see any method of parallax correction. The S&B site only says the Hungarian 8x56 "Klassic" is set up in the factory to zero parallax at 100m.

Is there any form of parallax correction on this scope? Did I miss something? If not, could you advise the maximum parallax error on the one you are selling at 25m and 100m?

The reason I am asking is the one I examined had no parallax at 100m, but it was 4 inches out at 25m with one's head going from full up to full down or full left to full right. At the moment I still do not know whether this fixed parallax for 100m is a feature of this scope or if I was looking at a faulty scope or if they are all like that. As I mentioned everything else about it was perfect. I emailed this question to S&B UK a month ago (twice) and asked about service cost if I bought it and then got a service to get the parallax error fixed, but no reply.

If your scope does not have this parallax problem I would be interested in it.
You are only going to need decent eye alignment with a 8x magnification . No parallax issue will put your shot out enough to be an issue hill stalking
 
I see they are just under £1k now new. I have one and like it a lot as low light no nonsense scope. As its fitted with a Blaser mount, I can switch it with a variable scope as I feel.
 
I believe all s&b 8x56 are fixed parallax at 100, shot things from 20 yards to 300 with no issues.
Correct all 8x56 Klassic are no side focus fantastic scopes with great glass in low light conditions great for deer stalking and foxing with lamps
 
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