mooreorless
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Hello, I had to pick up a book for my son at the local bookstore and happened to notice the May/June issue of Bird Watcher's Digest. The top of the cover has Mid-Priced Scope Review and this caught my eye.
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/publications/mj2009-binocreview.aspx?sc=hom_banner1
I bought this magazine for the first time and read the reviews of 5 50mm scopes, Nikon Fieldscope 50ED13-30x,Leupold Golden ring 15-36x, Bushnell Legend Ultra-HD 12-36x50mm, Yukon Firefall 12-36x50 Kit and the Minox MD 50 W 16-30x. They used a resolution chart to compare the scopes. Of course I would of liked if they used boosters as well as star tested these scopes as well. I guess you can not have everything. I won't say how all these scope did but will say the 50mm that got the best score is a well known 50ED.:t: I will say one of the 50 mm higher priced scopes was beat by one that cost only $80 in fact you could buy 4 of the cheaper scope for the price of the other.
They also compared 4 60mm-70mm [one was a mirror type scope] scopes and 3 80mm scopes.
Regards,Steve
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/publications/mj2009-binocreview.aspx?sc=hom_banner1
I bought this magazine for the first time and read the reviews of 5 50mm scopes, Nikon Fieldscope 50ED13-30x,Leupold Golden ring 15-36x, Bushnell Legend Ultra-HD 12-36x50mm, Yukon Firefall 12-36x50 Kit and the Minox MD 50 W 16-30x. They used a resolution chart to compare the scopes. Of course I would of liked if they used boosters as well as star tested these scopes as well. I guess you can not have everything. I won't say how all these scope did but will say the 50mm that got the best score is a well known 50ED.:t: I will say one of the 50 mm higher priced scopes was beat by one that cost only $80 in fact you could buy 4 of the cheaper scope for the price of the other.
They also compared 4 60mm-70mm [one was a mirror type scope] scopes and 3 80mm scopes.
Regards,Steve