Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow
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As high as you have to stick it, may as well have a large objective, for light gathering, resolution, and large exit pupil. No point in completely wasting that space down to the handguard.
I realized this and so I put a 42mm Sightron, but there's still room to spare - I failed to take the concept to it's natural extreme - I could run with a 50mm objective and still have perfect (relatively low) line of sight (for an AR that is).
I don't mind a tad more weight, so now I'm thinking that the ideal for *me* for an all-purpose rifle would be something like a 1.5-6x50mm - that huge exit pupil is not wasted, contrary to popular belief - no your eye cannot use the whole exit pupil *at the same time*, but it does allow for more room for error left and right, and up and down, for quick sight acquisition slightly off-center. Sure that results in parallax error to an extent - BUT parallax is very small anyway when set on just 1.5, so you wouldn't be off by much at short ranges. So anyone make such a beast? (High quality 50mm obj. scope, with 1.5-6 or 1.5-5 or similar).
I realized this and so I put a 42mm Sightron, but there's still room to spare - I failed to take the concept to it's natural extreme - I could run with a 50mm objective and still have perfect (relatively low) line of sight (for an AR that is).
I don't mind a tad more weight, so now I'm thinking that the ideal for *me* for an all-purpose rifle would be something like a 1.5-6x50mm - that huge exit pupil is not wasted, contrary to popular belief - no your eye cannot use the whole exit pupil *at the same time*, but it does allow for more room for error left and right, and up and down, for quick sight acquisition slightly off-center. Sure that results in parallax error to an extent - BUT parallax is very small anyway when set on just 1.5, so you wouldn't be off by much at short ranges. So anyone make such a beast? (High quality 50mm obj. scope, with 1.5-6 or 1.5-5 or similar).