Our Eyes are vastly different. Its like looking through someone else's perscription glasses
and expecting the same results as the owner of said glasses.
What works for you may or may not work for me. You need to try them out and weed through the ones
that dont work. Ive sold 50 % of the scopes ive purchased to try something else.
I have what works for me in my Competition environment and application.
That's not correct. If the eyes were vastly different, there would be no way to build riflescopes for someone without having an eye exam, so that analogy is flawed.
Riflescopes have diopter adjustments, which unfortunately many people do not know how to set properly. I have written at length about this. Suffice it to say that if you do not have the diopter set properly, you're shortchanging yourself. When you get to the extreme magnification of the Majesta, that's when it's critical to have the diopter set properly for your eye to that image.
Also, because of the extreme magnification, the side focus is also critical. DEON includes a middle wheel that fits on the side focus turret and provides greater granularity of focus. If you do not have it mounted on your Majesta, you're shortchanging yourself. I use a large wheel to further complement the side focus turret. This is for two reasons: I have arthritis in my left hand; and it provides ever greater granularity of focus.
I would urge you to read this note at the Marchscopes.com website.
MARCH Scopes Official Site
marchscopes.com
Now, what is very different from shooter to shooter is the brain and the experiences, and this is where we come into confusing stuff.
The brain does a HUGE amount of work interpreting the image that the riflescope sends to the eye. The eye is actually quite a piss poor sensor device in many respects, and the brain has to do a LOT of work to interpret what it's getting from the eye. This interpretation is formed by experience, and this is both a good and bad thing.
What I am finding it that if a shooter has been using the exact same scope for a long time, getting adjusted to another riflescope can be very difficult. This is even more pronounced with older shooters, and by that I mean past 60 years old. And the older you are with a LONG experience with a scope, the more difficult it is to use something else. For instance, the NF Comp is an excellent scope, but in terms of optical horsepower, it's nothing compared to the Majesta. Yet some shooters find it difficult to adapt to a Majesta, because they are so used to the Comp. For these shooters, especially the older ones, it takes time to build the experience with a new riflescope, if they are not used to using different ones for the same task.
Remember, the brain is a pattern recognition machine. "I've seen this before, this is what it really looks like."
I know many Majesta owners who have multiple copies of it. Almost all of them are younger than I (70), and some by a few decades. I do know of at least one owner older than I, who also has multiple Majestas, and that person is also one who is well versed in trying multiple brands and models at the same task.
It took me a while to realize that the brain and its experiences could have such an impact on how people view through scopes. As I said, it's not the eyes that are different, it's the brain.
