Brightest Scope at Dawn and at Dusk / Moon Light?

[andrews1958]

Who make the brightest illuminated scope for hunting at right before sun rise and just after dusk? Moonlight hunting??I have all Swarovski (Z3,Z5 and Z6), Zeiss, Schmidt & Bender and March scopes on my rifles. Do they make any brighter ones? I was looking for and possibly buying a Steiner Night hunter Xtreme Rifle Scope - 2-10x50mm. Does anyone know if this would be any brighter? Any others?

 

[NickB1075]

Just my limited experience but I find it hard to believe you can beat anything you currently have. I have swaro z5 S&B pmii 5x25 and a few Nightforce. My current hunting set up is a NF nx8 1-8. Never owned a Steiner but the few I have shot were not even close to my swaro or s&b or the nx8 for that fact.

Nick

 

[andrews1958]

ED glass

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[Ares]

You will not find any better then the Zeiss V8/ HTs, S&B Polar series, and the Swaros you already got. The japanese scopes i have looked through can't really compare for that use.
And the nighthunters from Steiner will not keep up.
The old Hensoldt 6-24x72 is really good too at this.
And meopta does really well for a more reasonable price.

Objective size, FOV, quality lenses, light transmission and good coatings is what matters

 

[Clancy]

S/B Polar, Swarovski Z8i are the best I know of. I have a Z8i on my 6BR for coyote hunting, and it was a real game changer. There was not enough difference in the two to call one better than the other, but my rifle looked the best with the Swaro and I went that way.
In Texas, it’s not unusual for us to shoot 15- 20 animals in a night, and most of us have equipped ourselves with Swaro Z6 or Z8 optics.

 

[Knotwild]

Pretty good read in the article below. Might be helpful, or maybe not. Everybody's eyes are different.

Light Transmission

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

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