From the many of the photos I have seen over the years of gun nuts and hunters , I always laugh when folks are more concerned with a riflescope that weighs 3 oz more than it 'should' than with packing an extra 30 pounds around the belt.
Some people like the way a particular rifle balances with certain scope combinations especially the ultralights. Leupold has a market all to themselves when it comes to compact scopes.
The Zeiss website is a little misleading with the weight of this scope so it surprised me when I weighed it and lo and behold they were off. 30 lbs is small change to what a lot of hunters are packing extra around the waist...the age of the supersize hunter is here and the xxxl sizes in hunting clothes is indicative of that, I don't know how horses can tolerate it.
