Hey, Steve.
You are right, as far as I am presently figuring. I have been ever leaning towards the 4.5-28x52 High Master. While the weight is a tad more than I want, it is right about where the ETR is, and some of the models are less (under 30 oz.) That’s not bad, especially considering what one is getting for a scope. A few too many people who are in the know are not thrilled with the glass on the 2.5-25 and the 3-24. Plus, for whatever reason, two people have told me that the parallax on the original 1.5-15 does not go down to a true 10 yards. This is not a dealbreaker, however. It’s the glass that I am mostly concerned with. A 12-yard parallax won’t affect me much at all.
So, after all this, right now I am looking at the 4.5-28 first, then either the 1.5-15 or the 1-10x24. Your comment that I may not be able to tell the difference in glass may be correct. Also, since I am only using this scope for short range, your issues with spotting hits won’t affect me. (But, at my age, details at distance are harder to make out, period.)
All that said, I still like the idea of having magnification for whatever reason, so the 4.5-28 is a lot of scope. It was the somewhat upper magnification range of the 2.5-25 that previously made it my first choice. I really don’t need 1 or 2 mag: it’s nice to have, sort of, for initial FoV, but I never shoot at my lowest presently available magnification ranges. Typically, I’d say I hang around the 8 or 10 mag range when pesting.
A member who lives close by, as the post above indicates, has offered to get together to allow me to look through his 1-10x24. This will give me, God willing, a good idea of what is, or what is not, going on with this scope and will be my first experience with March Glass. Finally. If the glass seems great to my eye, I may be able to live with the 10 mag. Gee. A year ago, I only had a Hawke Vantage 3-12x44; it worked fine, and I didn’t know the difference until I became a member and gained exposure to scopes. My interest back then was different airguns and not scopes.
I only have a .177 Crosman pistol, a 22. Marauder, and more recently, the 25. Crown Mk II Continuum. It’s on the Crown that the new scope will go.
Three related questions:
1. How do you like the glass on the 1-10?
2. Does the glass on the 1-10, to you, suffer from the drawbacks it does on the 1.5-15, 2.5-25, and the 3-24?
3. When you expressed your concern about the probably compromised IQ on the new 1.5-15, does this concern apply to the glass on the older 1-15? (This is overlap with question #2).
Oh. One more thing. Yes, I can still buy (and sell) other less-expensive scopes. I am always peeking around in various places. I have this hankering for a reticle that has an illuminated donut, a segmented donut, or even a half-circle, in the center. (If I ever got a certain March, one of the MTR reticles might do: the MTR 4 or 5; the dot in the 2 may be too small for me.) I believe the Helos comes with such a reticle. You’d know. There are lots of LPVOs with them. I may grab a Swampfox 1-10, or something like it. Ideally, I would like to buy maybe one more rifle—a Dreamline, a Crown, or whatever—and have the March 4.5-28 on one and a very light LPVO on the other. The Classifieds nearly always feature good deals on good guns, and that includes right now.
Thanks a ton, Steve.
S7
You are right, as far as I am presently figuring. I have been ever leaning towards the 4.5-28x52 High Master. While the weight is a tad more than I want, it is right about where the ETR is, and some of the models are less (under 30 oz.) That’s not bad, especially considering what one is getting for a scope. A few too many people who are in the know are not thrilled with the glass on the 2.5-25 and the 3-24. Plus, for whatever reason, two people have told me that the parallax on the original 1.5-15 does not go down to a true 10 yards. This is not a dealbreaker, however. It’s the glass that I am mostly concerned with. A 12-yard parallax won’t affect me much at all.
So, after all this, right now I am looking at the 4.5-28 first, then either the 1.5-15 or the 1-10x24. Your comment that I may not be able to tell the difference in glass may be correct. Also, since I am only using this scope for short range, your issues with spotting hits won’t affect me. (But, at my age, details at distance are harder to make out, period.)
All that said, I still like the idea of having magnification for whatever reason, so the 4.5-28 is a lot of scope. It was the somewhat upper magnification range of the 2.5-25 that previously made it my first choice. I really don’t need 1 or 2 mag: it’s nice to have, sort of, for initial FoV, but I never shoot at my lowest presently available magnification ranges. Typically, I’d say I hang around the 8 or 10 mag range when pesting.
A member who lives close by, as the post above indicates, has offered to get together to allow me to look through his 1-10x24. This will give me, God willing, a good idea of what is, or what is not, going on with this scope and will be my first experience with March Glass. Finally. If the glass seems great to my eye, I may be able to live with the 10 mag. Gee. A year ago, I only had a Hawke Vantage 3-12x44; it worked fine, and I didn’t know the difference until I became a member and gained exposure to scopes. My interest back then was different airguns and not scopes.
I only have a .177 Crosman pistol, a 22. Marauder, and more recently, the 25. Crown Mk II Continuum. It’s on the Crown that the new scope will go.
Three related questions:
1. How do you like the glass on the 1-10?
2. Does the glass on the 1-10, to you, suffer from the drawbacks it does on the 1.5-15, 2.5-25, and the 3-24?
3. When you expressed your concern about the probably compromised IQ on the new 1.5-15, does this concern apply to the glass on the older 1-15? (This is overlap with question #2).
Oh. One more thing. Yes, I can still buy (and sell) other less-expensive scopes. I am always peeking around in various places. I have this hankering for a reticle that has an illuminated donut, a segmented donut, or even a half-circle, in the center. (If I ever got a certain March, one of the MTR reticles might do: the MTR 4 or 5; the dot in the 2 may be too small for me.) I believe the Helos comes with such a reticle. You’d know. There are lots of LPVOs with them. I may grab a Swampfox 1-10, or something like it. Ideally, I would like to buy maybe one more rifle—a Dreamline, a Crown, or whatever—and have the March 4.5-28 on one and a very light LPVO on the other. The Classifieds nearly always feature good deals on good guns, and that includes right now.
Thanks a ton, Steve.
S7
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