Kaleb, I probably know some things about this topic that you don't.
I got a SWFA super sniper scope when Chris Farris his first picked some components from an Asian factory catalogue and imported his own brand. That was a long time after Gale McMillan did that and sold them to the marines. Any email I got from Gale was many computers ago.
I told Chris light transmission was terrible.
I have not measured it. I am not an optics engineer, but I have worked with them on attack helicopter night vision 15 years ago. I put in a lot of effort to get 120 db of dynamic range without any flicker at the bottom of night mode. I worked direct, contract, consultant, and firm fixed price contract under a statement of work. All the optics calculations were first time for me, and not a conditioned response. That was real work, doing new math.
I knew Chris from his ads in SHOTGUN NEWS and his posts on the shooter's forum in the 1990s when the WWW gun forums got started.
My father was chief engineer of a military and gun designing fortune 500 company. He mostly subcontracted the fire control [not the trigger like a Rem700 gunsmith would call it, but the aiming system] to Hughes Corp. But he did make an anti backlash split gear in an aiming system. You can't afford that in your scope nor your guitar tuning keys.
That is one tractor trailer-sized load of bullsh**.
