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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bearclawthedonut" data-source="post: 1601368" data-attributes="member: 73224">Well, Received my Pentax PF-65EDA today.  That's right, it's an A, not an Aii!  The box says "A" and the spotting scope says "A" and so does the eight language, fold-up Owners "Manual".  I have a clear recollection of seeing both the new box and scope body and both said Aii, as I recall.  Looks like the Spottingscope.com customer service rep that I spoke with either did not know what he was talking about or...  Well, I would prefer not to go there.  Unless, my recollection is wrong, they found a source for the old, obsolute, pre II series spotting scopes and that is what is on sale.  I also rechecked the posted photo of the scope body on spottingscope.com and enlarged its a bit out of focus, but it still looks like it says Aii, at least some of the time to me.  A bit disappointing, but...I inserted my WO Zoom and I really liked what I saw!  ER is pretty good, I would guess that it gets down to around 17mm at magnification above 42 to 45x.  I can still see the entire field, but need to move my eye about to do so.  It's hard to say for sure as I have a bit of a problem.  Actually several.  First, I got the wrong replacement compression washer.  Synd (thank you very much for pioneering and refining the installation of the WO Zoom in the PF-65) provided explicit, detailed instructions and I bought the wrong size replacement compression washer (months ago).  No big deal, I just cut mine down so that it would fit and work for now.  I'll get the right size later along with his recomended "O" ring.I'm proud that I decided to get a tripod/head (Bogen 718B) before I bought a scope body, but maybe I was a bit hasty in sending it back?  As now, I do not have a tripod to mount my new scope on.  But, I'm pretty resourcefull, so for testing purposes, I placed my new scope with temporary installed ep on the top rail of my patio fence, holding it firmly so it would not fall off and focused on the Tualatin River-side vegitation about 120 +/- yards away.  Nice view!  The patio fence rail is surprisingly stable.  Zoom and body work great together (Thanks again Synd)!  I was even able to tilt it up to look into the tops of Doug-Firs several hundred (300-400)yards away.  With the cut down compression ring it appears the scope/ep will focus to infinity at all mags.  But to take it into the field, I'm either going to have to get a tripod or cut down my patio fence and drag it with me.  Hmmm, that's a difficult choice...I guess what all this means is that as much as I do not like being deceived, even inadvertently, I'm still gonna keep this scope.  I'll certainly call spottingscopes.com and let them know about their "error".  I've decided, anybody have a saw I can borrow?Bearclawthedonut</blockquote>

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