Schmidt and Bender are actually mentioned and reviewed in the article I mentioned above--their optical clarity is second to none--I have used them and they are great.. the problem suggested in this article with them however is their weight--they are a heavier scope just as the new Swarovski 1 to 6 --which in turn puts added stress on the scope mount and a higher possiblity of failure to that mounting system, whatever that may be--in the test done by SCI for dangerous game scopes on an unbraked .460 Weatherby--they were actually shearing off screws from recoil--

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