Alpha glass....What is it, and who decides what constitutes it ?
Aside from the marketing, hype, and dollar amount. The one constant variable is the individuals eyes.
For every hunter saying this is awesome glass, there is another hunter saying he was looking through a dirty beer mug. Optics have a small margin of middle ground with some people.
To put alpha glass into a proper perspective, it would need to provide enough light gathering and clarity to allow seeing what others, using different glass, wouldn’t be able to distinguish at the same time and distance....Thus, an advantage over another hunter in a competitive hunting environment.
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To answer Buttstocks question. It’s almost impossible to identify glass as a tier one product, for reasons I referenced above.
With individuals eyes seeing differences in quality. “Subjective” is the word for what one person considers urber glass, while someone else thinks it....meh.
Here’s a brief list of scope mfg’s and glass that could be considered alpha based on manufacturing process, materials and coatings that go into making them.
