One of the Writers is Bill Mcrae ..he is supposedly very knowledgeable about optics. A 50mm Leupold won out over these other scopes including a Zeiss 30mm. It must have been strictly on a value basis the leupold being a better value for the money since its 1/3 the price of a Zeiss VM . That is the only way someone can say it has better OPtics. I think the whole test is a Sham...nowhere are apples compared to apples