Originally Posted by liliysdad
Originally Posted by Crow hunter


And those 1% probably come from a few guys on this board.



Pretty much this...no one buys them. The SWFA SS fixed sell because they are a cheap way to get into a reliable long range scope, and for no other reason.

These discussions always remind me of the constant whining, largely on gun boards, about wanting truck manufacturers to build bare bones, manual transmission, rubber floored 4cyl 4x4s again....if they would sell more than two a year, they would build them.

Much of this, like the love for fixed scopes on here, comes from a stance of forced curmudgeonism. For some reason, some portion of society thinks its cool to be old fashioned, or simple, or resistant to change for no real reason. In reality, these sorts of folks are what spawned the term "Fudd..."



The only thing my truck needs to do is keep running while taking a beating. I do like heated / cooling seats though, lol!

This is not a fixed vs variable thread. It's a curiosity for the lack of interest from manufacturers to make any current improvements to fixed scopes, The shooting industry as whole seems to have improved everything in every area, but this one.

I have both types of scopes. No one can argue that a fixed scope will be superior in every spec to a variable set on the same magnification and built on the exact same standards. A variable, however, offers more convenience and a better platform for marketing.

All my variables wound up set on 4x or 6x, except for killing small critters with a solid platform to shoot on. I'll take the fixed scope every time, but I guess to each his own.