I was down in Youngsville NC, at Sightron headquarters last week and spent about 3 hours looking at all their models. I was impressed with the cleairty. They are as clear as any Leupolds I have ever looked through. A good friend of mine evaluated a couple of Sightron scopes for a gun/shooting magazine. He stated that he had never seen a scope that was so precise in the repeatability of the click adjustments, to make a sight adjustment for long range, then be able to return it to the 100yd zero setting and it be there. As for the ability to take recoil, he was shooting one of the Sightron scopes on a Savage 10ML-II smokeless powder muzzleloader, which when loaded with heavier loads acheive approximately the same performance as a .375 H&H and .458 Win Mags., with not quite the same amount of recoil. These same loads have rendered a bunch of Tascos, Simmons, Bushnells, Redfields, and even a couple Leupolds to pure trash, bu the 2 Sightrons (a 2-8x42 & 4-12x44) have been going strong for 2 years now.

I have a 2-8x42 now, that I don't have a gun to put it on. I'll have to rectify problem here soon.