The brightness control knob itself has eleven brightness settings above the zero, or off, position.
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Since the marking on the focus doesn’t really matter, obscuring it and leaving the elevation knob in full exposure, which is far more important, is a very workable solution. The reason this is not an issue is because when adjusting the focus, the operator will want to adjust it until the picture is sharp and clear, at that point any parallax has been dialed out, it really doesn’t matter what the setting says on the knob. Yes, it does block the view of that knob. Many scope makers will position this knob at a 45 degree angle in an effort not to block the view of the focus knob and the elevation knob, but S&B makes no such effort and directly aligns it with the focus knob. While the power ring is stiff and requires a good amount of force to rotate, it is smooth through the entire range.ĭirectly in front of the magnification ring, and positioned on the left hand side of the tube, is the reticle illumination brightness control knob. Though this is of little concern with a Front Focal Plane scope like this one because the reticle is always the proper size for ranging no matter what the magnification is set to. The numbers are beautifully marked, but the ring is flat so the operator has to raise his or her head to see what power the scope is set at. There is one of the raised knobs that is larger than the rest and it is strategically placed near the 10x mark and provides an even larger protrusion to help with gripping that ring. In front of the markings on the ring is attached a hard rubber portion with several protrusions to help grasp the ring. The power adjustment is stiff, requiring a firm grip to rotate it through the range.
Just in front of the eyepiece is the power adjustment ring. The amount of force to adjust the eyepiece is not a lot, so there my be some concern of it getting moved during scope use, but a common trick is to set the eyepiece where you want it, and then put on the Butler Creek flip up scope cap to both help keep the ocular lens from rotating as well as providing a reference point… just make sure the scope cap is orientated straight up and down and you are back to your adjusted point.
The actual adjustment itself allowed for a quick focus of the reticle to be nice and sharp for each shooters eye. When the ocular lens is adjusted all the way out, there is zero movement side to side, which we would expect with a scope in this quality. There is also a rubber ring around the eyepiece to soften the edges and protect forehead and eye socket in case of the scope meeting the shooters head during recoil. The entire range is covered in a very smooth 1.5 rotations of the eyepiece. There is a single small dot on the rotating eyepiece to provide a reference point when adjusting the eyepiece for dioptre focus. The ocular lens housing on the PM II is long and includes a fast focus eyepiece design. They also have some below this price as well, like the venerable fixed power 10x42mm PM II scope, a classic and one of our favorites here. Of course, Schmidt & Bender offers many different lines of tactical scopes including compact and even higher magnification scopes with prices reaching even higher than this PM II. The list price on the scope is $3800 which is out of the price range of many individuals and even departmental budgets, so the quality is expected to be at the very top as well. The PM II is at the top of the spectrum for reputation and price. So the scope commands a significant presence, but with that presence comes a feeling of quality and precision, as it should.
It has a 34mm tube and 56mm objective combined with a length of 16″ and it weighs over two pounds. So does the S&B brand still hold a spot atop the competition and provide the best scope for sniper work? Let us dive in and find out.īack only about ten years ago this scope would have been considered massive, but now it is probably just a normal sized tactical scope. They deal in the full line of Schmidt and Bender scopes, as well as many other hard to find brands. We would like to thank our friends over at EuroOptic who made this review possible by providing the scope. So this time around we went with a bit higher magnification, which has become popular with sniper rifles, and are reviewing a Schmidt & Bender PM II 5-25x56mm with the two rotation turret (Clockwise) and a Premier Gen 2 XR reticle. We have reviewed several of them before and we wanted to continue to review more of them to continue to compare them with the new crop of high quality tactical optics from the likes of Nightforce, Premier, Vortex, and others.
The German manufacturer has long been the first name mentioned when speaking about the highest quality of rifle scopes. Just saying the name brings a large amount of prestige and weight into any conversation of the best optics for sniping.
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