Quote Originally Posted by Blowby View Post
With a fixed scope like your 10x the light gathering and clarity will always be better than a variable like the 3-9 you had. The number of lenses needed for a variable scope can vary to maybe 5 lenses. More glass to pass light through will degrade the image a little per lens. With a fixed sight you have fewer lenses, maybe only 2 so the image is not degraded as much. Now don't get me wrong there are great quality variable scopes but you pay BIG BUCK's for the glass quality required.
Makes lots of sense, I deal with mirrors primarily so the larger the objective, the more light you can gather. The old scope was a 42mm and the SS is a 42mm as well, just never put two and two together.

And yes, I've seen how expensive the high quality variable power scopes can be, kind of hope I never get THAT much into long range shooting

Spun the turrets around another 5 cycles today and I absolutely love them! Can't wait to take this thing shooting!