Would be one heckeva scope for a deer stand rifle, but quite a bit too heavy for my "dream" lightweight mountain rifle.
holy crap that's heavy, totally agree. SFP or FFP, mil or MOA on reticle? After looking at Mils, it isn't that hard (for me) and FFP seems to make sense. Getting a good reticle for hunting is tough though.
For what it is worth, I am on this exact "quest" right now, and not enthused with where it leads.
Currently on here, people are either in two camps it seems.....
1) "with" drop testing.
2) skeptical about drop testing.
If you are taking the drop testing seriously (I find it hard not to, there's no agenda there apart from identifying good optics you can trust) - that's NF, Trijicon, SWFA, and ?? that are generally acceptable. For durable/light, the NXS 2.5-10x42 comes up a lot as ideal - I wish they had a 3-15 under 25 oz or so in that same build.......just for punching paper.
Untested: March makes a lot of good stuff that seems to fit - eclipses that $2K point pretty quick, with the 3-24x42 as close as you can get.
If you are not taking drop testing seriously, which many people will chime in that they do not, you're looking at Leupold VX-5/6HD, the Razor LHT series, Ziess V4/6, etc. Swaro Z series is nice but super limited in travel with the 1" tubes. Anything Luepold apparantly will fail, from a lot of what you read on here.
ALL of that said - I'm just read a lot about this stuff, I have not dropped any rifles etc. After the past 12 months of scope stuff on here, the cliff notes version is suprisingly easy to regurgitate - that doesn't make it fact though.
