Putting aside the opening links' USA obsession for "long range" shooting.

With a lot or most Euro hunting scopes being often made for low light or night hunting. Ranges are often not great. Wounding lots of animals at 1000 metres would loose a Euro hunting licence pretty quickly. And all Euro hunting scopes having closed cap turrets, designed to be sighted in, cap screwed on, used without adjusting the reticle in the field. What then is the alleged benefit of an "increase in reticle adjustment"? Seeing most are now 30 mm and 35 mm monstrosities,

I think I know the answer, variable scope ranges. A 25 or 26 mm tube usually has a 3x range, 3-9x, 4-12x etc. 30 mm and 35 mm tubes can have a 6x or even 8x variable range, 1-6x even 1-8x.

And still have good light transmission for low light hunting.