CJW Wrote:I want to buy a March FFP now
George Kelby got me hooked on March scopes a long time ago ..
What a great man.
Jim Kelbly almost sank the March US business when it first came out. He was the only world supplier at the time and constantly touring to compete, leaving no-one behind to run the business. He also had a habit of not returning calls and being snarky to concerned customers. Maybe he's got better with more competition selling March scopes. BRT Supplies was appointed the southern hemisphere's rep and then a UK rep was appointed. Luckily for March things improved.
More recently there have been concerns over parallax and focus not coinciding in some March scopes, at least that's the scuttlebutt. It might be just trends but NF's more recent 15-55x52 Competition has become popular. These types of scopes are unrelated to a Grendel rifle but goes to show how little it takes to bruise a brand's reputation.
My thoughts are that both NF and March are great scopes and I have both. High zoom ratios and repeatability is what interests me in a scope. Unfortunately there is no industry benchmark for repeatability, or independent (trustworthy) testing of it. You don't see how well it returns to zero after recoil listed in any specs.