March 2.5-25 - 07/17/21
Since DugE gave us take on his new scope I will give my impression of a March 2.5-25X52. Of course I compared it with my Bushnell 6500 4 1/2-30X50.
July 14, 2021 93 degrees, sunny target. March 2 ½-25X52 FD-1 illuminated (23.9 ounces) and Bushnell 6500 4 ½-30X50 (22.0 ounces)
I adjusted them as well as I could on the optics chart 127 yards away. The March shows better color on the plants than the Bushnell, but not as good as the Leupold VX-6 4-24X52. I set them both on 25X. The March was barely better with both allowing me to see 4-1. 4-1 means I could discern the first group of lines on the forth scale. When the Bushnell was turned up to 30X it was barely better than the March on 25X. But it is max against max.
About 8:20 I set them both on the sandbags again to look at the deer antlers in the woods 131 yards away. The sun already went behind the hills to the west. The lowest setting for the Bushnell allowing me to see the antlers was 8 1/2X while the March setting was 5 1/2X. I couldn’t see them with the Bushnell until I found them with the March on about 10X.
The field of view in the March is HUGE!
This March is definitely better than the Swarovski z8i 3.5-28 I purchased and returned about a month ago.
By the way this March is not as good as one of our .com friend's who let me compare his with my scope. But then I have three of the 6500s and there is the slightest difference in them, also. As customers we usually get to use a sample of one and don't know scopes vary from one to the next.
July 14, 2021 93 degrees, sunny target. March 2 ½-25X52 FD-1 illuminated (23.9 ounces) and Bushnell 6500 4 ½-30X50 (22.0 ounces)
I adjusted them as well as I could on the optics chart 127 yards away. The March shows better color on the plants than the Bushnell, but not as good as the Leupold VX-6 4-24X52. I set them both on 25X. The March was barely better with both allowing me to see 4-1. 4-1 means I could discern the first group of lines on the forth scale. When the Bushnell was turned up to 30X it was barely better than the March on 25X. But it is max against max.
About 8:20 I set them both on the sandbags again to look at the deer antlers in the woods 131 yards away. The sun already went behind the hills to the west. The lowest setting for the Bushnell allowing me to see the antlers was 8 1/2X while the March setting was 5 1/2X. I couldn’t see them with the Bushnell until I found them with the March on about 10X.
The field of view in the March is HUGE!
This March is definitely better than the Swarovski z8i 3.5-28 I purchased and returned about a month ago.
By the way this March is not as good as one of our .com friend's who let me compare his with my scope. But then I have three of the 6500s and there is the slightest difference in them, also. As customers we usually get to use a sample of one and don't know scopes vary from one to the next.