Are today's medium priced scopes as good as yesterdays' high priced scopes ?

[Hammer]

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Have had some retail gun dealers who have been running their own shop for 30+ years tell me that today's medium priced scopes are every bit as good or better than yesterday's highest priced scopes ?

That is, today's $400 scope is every bit as good in optical quality, adjustments, and reliability as the $1,000 scope of 30+ years ago.

What say ye ?

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[tammons]

Probably

[laportecharlie]

I think that has always held true. Optics have steadily gotten better so a medium priced scope of any era would be better than a higher priced one from a former era.
Charlie

[LDSILLS]

I think that has always held true. Optics have steadily gotten better so a medium priced scope of any era would be better than a higher priced one from a former era.
Charlie

Old thread but still the question prevails. I bring this up as all I hear on the net is Vortex scopes. I personnaly have never looked through one or done a side by side comparision. When I was growing up Leuopold reigned and when I compared even there top models to my Huskemaw without biased the later was better. Is Vortex replacing the popular Leopold of days of old? I think so.

IMHO science and engineering is giving us scopes that are far beyond Leopold in the days of old. Just as our barrels and actions have gotten better. Manufacturing Equipment is now computer controlled with tolerances no human can come close to. The same with scopes and their glass. Grinding methods and medium again made by tight tolerance machinery allows glass to be finely ground.

Take my go to brand Sightron. Great glass and tracks just as well as popular high end night force and Kahles. But for a thousands or more less.

Just as our cars would seldom last 30,000 miles on the days of old and now they go for several hundred thousand, scopes are no different.

[charlie b]

Well, yeah.

Try looking at a Zeiss scope from the 1920's or 30's. Then pick up one from the 70's and then one from today.

The advances in optics and coatings over the past 100yrs is huge. And even more so in the last 30. The biggest jump in availability is due to far east production quality improvements.

[Smokey262]

This might be the new indoor world record for the oldest thread I have ever seen being resurrected

[Stumpkiller]

In the 70's I had a friend whose father had a custom Mauser in 25-06 with a 10x Unertl scope. The scope was about two feet long and adjustments were on the bases. The optics were incredible . . . but the field of view at 100 yards was about 10 feet. As kids at the range we all clamored to shoot that rifle. It was a tack driver . . as they say.

For hunting? Variable power, wider field of view, better light gathering, FireDot reticles. No question a $1,000 scope now would beat that scope that cost maybe $100 in 1970. But then, with inflation, that would be an $820 scope now. So it shows we have better scopes now. Maybe.

[ButcherBlock]

I too am a Sightron fan. I bought a used S11 4x16x42 a few months ago for $100. I now have two of these, found a new old stock one for $250. In my opinion, you have to spend a lot more money than that to better these. I also have had quite a few Leupold scopes. My Sightron scopes are great for my needs. Without spending spending a mortgage payment on it.