Got the Hawke XB30. Here's initial impressions.
It is the heaviest of the 3 30mm scopes I own. A good comparison would be my 30 mm Elite 4200 illuminated 1.25X4X24 which weights 2oz less, no big deal but both are heavy to be sure. My favourite scope is my 1.75x6X32 VariXIII (one inch tube) at 10.8 oz. The Leupold has the wides field of view, next comes the Elite and last the Hawke.
Optical quality is excellent! Rear lens gives no real reflection like the rear lens of my MAP and edge to edge image is very good. Still optical quality is noticeably not as good as the Elite or Leupold.
All lines and crosshairs are way too thin for me for hunting. The Elite uses out right bold bars that lead to a fine crosshair and uses a very tiny illuminated dot. The Leupold uses a heavy bars that lead to moderately thick crosshairs. Yes I realize that the XB30 has illuminated aiming points but I prefer as little illumination as possible or none at all and I really like thick posts. Much thicker and longer posts would have made a big difference to me.
Oh, re:the mount that it comes with. It is really heavy!!!!!! Six ounces!
I know that the Leupold will still be on my main hunting bow. All in all a great scope and far cheaper than any scope that I mentioned above but the when it comes to scopes I do not cheap out too much but Zeiss and Swarovski are beyond what I will pay.