The scopes fall way short in not offering a higher power 40-44mm obj version IMO. Not everyone likes big bells.
JG, the only thing I can gather there is that they were likely selling the Victory 50mm's by a count of 10 to 1 over the 40mm or they'd not have discontinued it.
Seems to me the trend when guys are "going big" on scopes - be it price or tube size, they really have a tendency to "go big"...
I'm not a fan of large objectives either but folks laying down the cheddar only need to satisfy themselves.