help finding a scope...

[Maggot]

Been very pleased with the two Sightron scopes I have, might yet buy another if I keep my Steyr, which currently has a Hawke on it. It's not a bad scope, but the Sightrons are both much clearer.

Oddly....

When I was hunting a lot with air rifles I used to love the hawk ballistic ret (SR6 etc).

But every one I had got some sort of mould growing on the insides.

Nothing wrong with the storage either, I guess they were just not assembled in too clean an environment.

To their credit Deben swapped them without question but I passed them on eventually.

[The Gun Pimp]

Only slight niggle I have with my SIII 8-32 is chromatic aberration. There can be a slight yellow/purple fringing on vertical and horizontal straight lines under very strong sunlight. It's a known problem but not enough of a one to stop me buying another next visit to the US.

Most scopes - and optics - suffer from chromatic aberration or 'fringing'. I recently checked out a pair of massive Japanese binoculars costing well over a grand - the image was superb but chromatic aberration in the form of a purple fringing was horrendous.

Chromatic aberration when viewing high-contrast subjects is one of the things we have to live with unless you want to splash out for fluoride glass - but, as long as it doesn't degrade the image it's not a problem with rifle scopes.

[Maggot]

Only slight niggle I have with my SIII 8-32 is chromatic aberration. There can be a slight yellow/purple fringing on vertical and horizontal straight lines under very strong sunlight. It's a known problem but not enough of a one to stop me buying another next visit to the US.

Most scopes - and optics - suffer from chromatic aberration or 'fringing'. I recently checked out a pair of massive Japanese binoculars costing well over a grand - the image was superb but chromatic aberration in the form of a purple fringing was horrendous.

Chromatic aberration when viewing high-contrast subjects is one of the things we have to live with unless you want to splash out for fluoride glass - but, as long as it doesn't degrade the image it's not a problem with rifle scopes.

Usually where there is high contast, twigs aginst sky, black and white targets etc....Grrrr