After taking the benchrest crowd in a storm with their 40X BR scope, Koto Precision is testing a 5x32 scope with 56mm obj for the tactical crowd and a 20x55 for the 600 and 1000 yd. shooters. They all have a 30MM tube and ED lenses. Reports are that resolution is unbelieveable. See 6mm bullet holes at 600 yds.
Kelblys Inc. in Ohio are the sole distributors.
Butch

A little extra info.
http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~koto-br/english.html
Butch

At $2100+ USD I think it might have been the second coming of Katrina on my wallet.

Rich
DRSS

Rich,
I don't know where the money stops. I have looked through the March at 400 yds and it is much better side to side than my 12x42 NSX Nightforce. If it truly holds POA as it seems, a lot more will be sold. I do know since the intro last year over 300 have been sold.
Butch

Butch - I have March 40 x scope # 12* . I was the first one I believe to phone Hobbie after Jim Kelblys post on Br.com. The people involved in development of this optic and Kelblys convinced me to buy this only having seen a photo .
When I discussed my new purchase with a friend who uses and buys high end cameras he did make the comment that he had paid more for camera components.

Glenn

And now we have the March 10-60X52mm Variable scope -see :
http://www.benchrest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45821
Glenn

I put MarchX, 8-80X56 on my bench/varmit rifles. Very hard to beat this optic.

All-in, about $4k from Eurooptic including the high end 34mm rings. Works well on my FN Ballista.

Other March optics might do well on hunting rifles. I put Nightforce scopes on my primary hunting rifles.

March certainly has the ear of the target-shooting community, and I'm amazed at the resolution you report, Butch.

Glass quality is not everything, though, and any scope with a 10x zoom multiple has obviously got a lot going on mechanically. Hopefully, the power ring is either rather stiff or miraculously made, because any slop that develops in the lens movement will eventually cause parallax or impact changes at different magnifications, at least in SFP models. The inclusion of parallax adjustments conveniently makes that aspect into the user's problem, of course.

I like the Genesis 4-40 and 6-60x extra-long-range models, though, which have all the zero adjustments outside the main tube in a rubber-sealed box. Though this may introduce some mounting fragility, it has allowed them to put the reticle in the first focal plane without adding recoil inertia, whereby those power-related impact changes should never arise.

Not having the erector set/power scroll/reticle bouncing around inside, possibly maxed out in clicks, means less chance of internal recoil damage or dulled optical performance from looking through lens peripheries. The Genesis idea also allows both near and very-distant targets without running out of adjustments short of mount ramps.

They only cost about $10,000, so I might buy a couple