Golden Eagle vs NF Competition

[wildcatter]

I no longer trust opinions on the quality of glass unless they talk about the various forms of optical aberrations and how they were corrected or not corrected. I think many people do not adjust the scope to their eye before they begin evaluating it. You see it all the time in stores. Person picks up a scope, looks through it and puts it down declaring that it is not that good or that it is great. They don't know how to use a scope. Mechanically I've had very expensive scopes fail. I've also had cheap optics fail. You pay your money and you take your chances but in optics, money usually buys quality.

I currently have Nightforce, Sightron, Trijicon, Swarovski, Vortex, Nikon, Leupold, Hawke, Weaver and Bushnell. My current favorite, Trijicon ten mile 5-50 followed by Swarovski Habicht followed by Nightforce Comp but all the scopes are good given the price points and the application I use them for.

In the first place no optic can be evaluated in a store! I've seen many that look good in the dry climate controlled and evenly lit environment,, outside in real atmospheric and light is what is needed to understand they quality of the glass for use in real world conditions. This is what coatings and quality glass cancel out, humans cannot adjust it out, parallax and focus are the only thing possible to adjust once the optical tools are made! Sunshades and filters can help, but any filter on any glass will degrade the optics regardless the quality.

Trust me, money and cost are the wrong things to determine quality, Just concentrating on optical quality is also neglecting many other, some more important considerations when evaluating precision shooting optics!