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<blockquote data-quote="gareyg" data-source="post: 2394187" data-attributes="member: 78874"><p>I'd like to offer another perspective to consider. All your choices are good, and that ZCO would sure be hard to beat, and I really relate to the analysis part, but to me it depends on your actual use, % hunting versus steel. Grew up in Oregon hunting 100% with Leupolds, along with almost every hunter I knew there. More hunting than target shooting for 58 years, although I'm not hunting much lately due to work. After Leupolds I moved on to several Nightforce and US Optics models. Both are awesome equipment, but not really for me. I found that even with scope covers, both quickly became "less useful" hunting in the rain. You don't want to be shuffling for something to carefully dry an expensive lens as a big buck wanders off. I've been desperate enough to lick an ocular lens just to get a fleeting shot. Not to mention a little heavy at 2+ pounds, if there is any physical exertion involved. Roughly 20 years ago I switched to Bushnell Elite 6500. 6.5x zoom range, 2.5x-16x. Rainguard lens coating so water beads and runs off (like Rain-X on your car windshield). Excellent optically, 21 ounces, solid design and quality, lifetime warranty. I like the combo of 2.5x for close in hunting (eg moving deer under me in a climber treestand), and up to 16x for longer shots. It's never failed me in the rain. I'm a lifelong holdover shooter so never really adapted to FFP and dial-ups anyway. Maybe when I retire I'll take that on. Except for a nice Nightforce on a long range target rifle (Bartlein, Defiant, Surgeon, Manners, Jewel by Willie Roscoe), nearly every rifle wears an Elite 6500. I think I have 7 or 8 now. I also put pic rails on all my rifles that didn't already have them, and all the 6500's in Bobro Engineering one-piece QD mounts. Consistent controls on nearly every rifle now, and further flexibility to pop an existing scope on rifles I don't shoot as much, such as my in-line muzzleloader, without buying and dedicating another scope to them. I've been very happy with this approach. Of course I guess I could have just said, consider some sort of hydrophobic lens coating option if you plan to leave the bench and shoot in the weather (;</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gareyg, post: 2394187, member: 78874"] I'd like to offer another perspective to consider. All your choices are good, and that ZCO would sure be hard to beat, and I really relate to the analysis part, but to me it depends on your actual use, % hunting versus steel. Grew up in Oregon hunting 100% with Leupolds, along with almost every hunter I knew there. More hunting than target shooting for 58 years, although I'm not hunting much lately due to work. After Leupolds I moved on to several Nightforce and US Optics models. Both are awesome equipment, but not really for me. I found that even with scope covers, both quickly became "less useful" hunting in the rain. You don't want to be shuffling for something to carefully dry an expensive lens as a big buck wanders off. I've been desperate enough to lick an ocular lens just to get a fleeting shot. Not to mention a little heavy at 2+ pounds, if there is any physical exertion involved. Roughly 20 years ago I switched to Bushnell Elite 6500. 6.5x zoom range, 2.5x-16x. Rainguard lens coating so water beads and runs off (like Rain-X on your car windshield). Excellent optically, 21 ounces, solid design and quality, lifetime warranty. I like the combo of 2.5x for close in hunting (eg moving deer under me in a climber treestand), and up to 16x for longer shots. It's never failed me in the rain. I'm a lifelong holdover shooter so never really adapted to FFP and dial-ups anyway. Maybe when I retire I'll take that on. Except for a nice Nightforce on a long range target rifle (Bartlein, Defiant, Surgeon, Manners, Jewel by Willie Roscoe), nearly every rifle wears an Elite 6500. I think I have 7 or 8 now. I also put pic rails on all my rifles that didn't already have them, and all the 6500's in Bobro Engineering one-piece QD mounts. Consistent controls on nearly every rifle now, and further flexibility to pop an existing scope on rifles I don't shoot as much, such as my in-line muzzleloader, without buying and dedicating another scope to them. I've been very happy with this approach. Of course I guess I could have just said, consider some sort of hydrophobic lens coating option if you plan to leave the bench and shoot in the weather (; [/QUOTE]
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