Aoudad shooter1975
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I have to go along with the consensus, my Mark 5 3x18 is really really good..just not my favorite reticle
Glad I Looked Through a Leupold MK5 Today!
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Like the Mark5 weight but while everyone's eyes are different, the CA on the MK5HD 3-18 I tried was distinctly worse than my Vortex Razor G2s(heavy pig tho), Kahles, ATACRs, or NX8 4-32. Sold it within a couple weeks of buying it.
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I'm buying my 3rd Mark 5, don't agree and my first two track to perfection.
Ya don't know what you were looking at. Have had the 5-25, 3-18, and currently have the vx5hd on my hunting rifle. Considering switching to the 5-25 for hunt rifle. The 3-18 wasn't great with tmr in ffp. Just didn't care for it. But I do like their new reticles and would possibly try it again just to save on size from the 5-25.
BFD, are you talking about glass clarity or the "tunnel view" aspect with the M5? When folks talk about the toilet paper tube aspect, that usually means that the scope doesn't open up the field of view as much as other scopes when the zoom is turned down. Some scopes are bad about this, it's called tunneling. It would make it a bad scope for lowering the zoom so you could spot your own shots.
snox801
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Man you are crazy. I not even in joe b's world would I agree with that.
I do believe that eyes are different and what mine likes yours may not.
motrapper
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SDPlinker
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I agree with all above, I have 3 MK 5s 2-5x25s and a 7x35 I just ordered another 5x25 Saturday. They are bright and clear and I could not imagine wanting anything else, especially a imported scope.
DoneNOut
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I understand the tunneling aspect. It's prevalent on my Bushnell Elite DMR II between 3-4x. FOV is good rest of mag range. I am always at 15-19x on that range gun so no worries there.
The MK 5 I shot had that tunnel look at 20-25X. A lot of black around the sight picture.
If you had black around the sight picture it simply was not set up for you and you did not have the correct eye relief
DoneNOut
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Oh my, I know how to establish proper eye relief. The sight picture was clean edge to edge from shadow. I'm talking thick black internal scope tube look, hence the toilet paper roll.
DoneNOut
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Well anyway. I will need to look through some more MK 5 HDs and see if this is replicated. Till then I'll roll with a Burris XTR III. I know for certain that is a fantastic scope.
I can look out back of my house 440 yrds to fence and see the barbs,cant with my March.March is poor past 20x,the parallax very picky at 20 and up to where it is hard to tell trophy quality.My mark 5 blows it away in all those elements.I dont pack leo,big giant scope
