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If it was a 1.5-6x36, a 1.5-6x42 or a 1.1-4x24, I'd tell you it was / is a POS & as a public service I'll take one for the team & take it off your hands. But, it's too high power with too big an objective bell for my liking, so I am forced to tell you the un-varnished truth.
You can sometimes find them in Europe for ~$6-800 US on flea-bay. For that amount, they're an absolute steal. And for that many after-tax, hard-earned dollars, you won't find a comparable scope for less than 2 large US.
If you have any older friends (sorry; not sure how many hunting seasons you've been around for) who are Nikon SLR camera nuts, ask them about the quality of Zeiss' T* lenses.
The down side: Zeiss wants a good chunk of change to swap reticles, or to refurbish it, unlike 2 of the other 3 Alpha scope makers.
Not sure if this answers your question or not.
If it was a 1.5-6x36, a 1.5-6x42 or a 1.1-4x24, I'd tell you it was / is a POS & as a public service I'll take one for the team & take it off your hands. But, it's too high power with too big an objective bell for my liking, so I am forced to tell you the un-varnished truth.
You can sometimes find them in Europe for ~$6-800 US on flea-bay. For that amount, they're an absolute steal. And for that many after-tax, hard-earned dollars, you won't find a comparable scope for less than 2 large US.
If you have any older friends (sorry; not sure how many hunting seasons you've been around for) who are Nikon SLR camera nuts, ask them about the quality of Zeiss' T* lenses.
The down side: Zeiss wants a good chunk of change to swap reticles, or to refurbish it, unlike 2 of the other 3 Alpha scope makers.
Not sure if this answers your question or not.
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Re:"they are a POS"
Sorry; my apologies if you could not decifer that my tongue was firmly implanted in my cheek when I made that comment. They are definitely NOT P.'s O. S. They are fantastic scopes. I've been using Zeiss scopes for ~40 years. My preferences, however, are for their low power, very wide field of view models that I mentioned in my original post. They just work better for me for my hunting situations (black spruce & cedar swamps in the Canadian Shield, where long shots are 50 yards & you cannot see past 75, even at mid-day, much less at first or last light). While I have come to prefer Kahles & Swarovski offerings in those same low power ranges, due to my preference of their colour renditions (through MY eyes) the margin of difference is VERY slim.
Should you hunt where long shots are the norm AND you can mount the scope so that you have a good, repeatable cheek weld AND the reticle is not Zeiss' version of a #1 (because the arms of the reticle do not intersect and at long distances there is too large a margin of error in that case) and the asking price is ~$1,000, my recommendations would be to go for it. BUT, if you hunt in the same heavy bush conditions that I do OR you cannot get a good cheek weld because you have to use extra high rings to clear the objective bell, thereby resulting in your cheek not touching the rifle's comb, then I'd say walk away & wait for a scope better suited to your purposes.
Re:"they are a POS"
Sorry; my apologies if you could not decifer that my tongue was firmly implanted in my cheek when I made that comment. They are definitely NOT P.'s O. S. They are fantastic scopes. I've been using Zeiss scopes for ~40 years. My preferences, however, are for their low power, very wide field of view models that I mentioned in my original post. They just work better for me for my hunting situations (black spruce & cedar swamps in the Canadian Shield, where long shots are 50 yards & you cannot see past 75, even at mid-day, much less at first or last light). While I have come to prefer Kahles & Swarovski offerings in those same low power ranges, due to my preference of their colour renditions (through MY eyes) the margin of difference is VERY slim.
Should you hunt where long shots are the norm AND you can mount the scope so that you have a good, repeatable cheek weld AND the reticle is not Zeiss' version of a #1 (because the arms of the reticle do not intersect and at long distances there is too large a margin of error in that case) and the asking price is ~$1,000, my recommendations would be to go for it. BUT, if you hunt in the same heavy bush conditions that I do OR you cannot get a good cheek weld because you have to use extra high rings to clear the objective bell, thereby resulting in your cheek not touching the rifle's comb, then I'd say walk away & wait for a scope better suited to your purposes.
LOL!!! You have to excuse me, I'll be 64 this August and I still have my innocence; I guess that I couldn't read between the lines of what you mentioned. Well, that's great to hear your positive rating on these make/model of scopes. Yes, it's is wide open country that I hunt and I possibly require a small, light leather cheek rest to attach to the stock, hence the German hog's-back rear stock.
Your POS comment knocked me off balance, because I viewed the scope and the optics are crystal clear, great contrast and immensely sharp. The only thing I don't like is that it is a first focal plane. I can easily get by with it for hunting, but to see those small round 1" white bullseyes will be difficult at 300 yards. Thanks for your comments!
