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Thanks for the link, AC!

By the way, Alex at Europtics is a great guy to deal with! A real class act.

John

Yeah it definitely looks like a nice scope, price increase definitely makes a guy weigh the value vs some other really good scopes but maybe its worth it. I realy like the darker z-plex reticles on the standard conquest for low light shooting so I am not sure on the thickness of the bars on this new Conquest. Shorter eye relief has me concerned too unless it has an awesome eyebox that offsets it. A 3-15 with standard plex and target turrets seems real appealing though, but $900 makes you really have to consider a Swaro Z3 too. If it was in the $600 range it would make the decision making a little easier. Im sure guys here will give em a run and let us know.

Never ordered anything from Europtics, Doug has always been my guy!....grin

Absolutely John, hadn't glanced at your local or thought about the complexity of exporting optics!

That ocular housing does look large and without seeing it, can't say if it would interfere with operating a bolt action. I'd guess it would be close though. I understand why they do this and the benefits a larger housing offers, but if it makes operating a bolt more difficult, I'd have to pass. Sometimes I wonder if these new designs are actually ever tested on a rifle.

If you had older eyes with a severe prescription for nearsighted vision, your views of eye relief and large ocular eyepieces would not be nearly so smug.

I just looked at the specs for the eye piece diameter of the new Zeiss Conquest HD compared to a Leupold VX-6 and the Zeiss is slightly smaller (2mm's). Guess it looks bigger cause of the 1 inch tube.

I don't see the complaint on eye relief the regular conquest already had too much as it was. just use a pistol scope if you don't feel like you have enough. the 3-15 and 5-25 are not going to be the kind of scope you will likely want to use on a 375 H&H or other african caliber, when it comes to eye relief you want plenty to not smack your head beyond that your giving up optical performance. too often long eye relief is confused with forgiving eye box, they are 2 different things. the conquest I used to own had so much eye relief I just about had to use an extension front scope ring and or base.

if these scopes are on par with the 3-9 conquest optically and with the larger power range I think these scopes are a hit, I would have liked to seen a 30mm tube, zero stop turret, and 6:1 or greater zoom ratio