I have looked through the ep5, I'm slowly cycling my way up the optics chain. I have dumped all the vortex scopes I have, and am now left with an inbound nightforce + the current meopta, and burris scopes. Nothing made in China. The meopta punches way above its weight as well. I hear that some production changed since I got mine so not sure if the new production is up to snuff, but they used to use schott ed and ht glass and assembled in the USA. They might be using glass from Hungary or their own now and assemble in the czech republic since covid changed a lot.
The general concensus is right. The same applies to high performance engines. If can onlynpick 2 of the 3 in a product. speed(glass), reliability, and low price. There IS a point of diminishing returns, and after doing hours of window shopping, looking through more glass than I should, talking to people at the range, looking at their scopes, getting feedback... I went with nightforce.
The point of diminishing returns starts at the atacr line. You don't get much more for more $$$. The color contrast was slightly better on the Schmidt and bender pmii but it wasn't $7000 scope good. When you need that kind of resolution and contrast.... you are in a position where your life is on the line as an occupation and you need to spot movement in the bush 1500 yards out + make a successful shot. that's not me, I go pew ping when the weather is nice. Only thing on the line is some cash and standing.
The general concensus is right. The same applies to high performance engines. If can onlynpick 2 of the 3 in a product. speed(glass), reliability, and low price. There IS a point of diminishing returns, and after doing hours of window shopping, looking through more glass than I should, talking to people at the range, looking at their scopes, getting feedback... I went with nightforce.
The point of diminishing returns starts at the atacr line. You don't get much more for more $$$. The color contrast was slightly better on the Schmidt and bender pmii but it wasn't $7000 scope good. When you need that kind of resolution and contrast.... you are in a position where your life is on the line as an occupation and you need to spot movement in the bush 1500 yards out + make a successful shot. that's not me, I go pew ping when the weather is nice. Only thing on the line is some cash and standing.