Interesting. I bought 2 Conquest 3-9's in the bargain frenzies as they were being phased out. To me and my son they were the most overhyped crap we'd ever tried. The critical eye relief and black ring were deal killers. Sold them both to 'fans' and actually made money for lunch.
Last week, a bud called to ask that I mount a Terra on his daughter's .243....slay me, but 4 of 5 of us preferred the eye box to the Conquest.
I like the Terra 3-9x42 I recently bought as well. I also have a conquest and the glass is not noticeably better on the conquest. I don't get the gripe about the short eye relief either. However, I don't like long eye relief scopes like some of these guys do. The reason I bought the Terra was because our very own John Barnsness was raving about them being great scopes. Only time will tell, but so far the Terra has been a great scope...
