I'd take Mike's comments with a grain of salt as he is a competing dealer. He's done the same thing on countless threads over at ar15.com and snipershide.com and usually gets slammed for it.
In regards to the new 3-9x42 and 10x42 HD, listen to the people that have actually used one or even seen one. These are totally different animals compared to the other SS scopes. Different factory, different glass, coatings, etc. They share no common parts with the $300. fixed powers.
This guy knows a little about scopes.
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