Shane is a great tech and knows what he is doing and he is honest 100% , so Shane is saying this scope has some inherant issues that happen on all of them and use scope below this , I am telling you if shane looked threw it and probably 1000s of other same brand he is telling you this glass at max has some . I dont think he blew you off , I think he is saying
that scope at max the image distorts , this is called Chromatic aberration, / I have had some scopes in the $3 to $6k and some scopes just not good in all of magnifactions , here is an example
schmidt bender pm2 5x25 depending on reticle can cost $2500 to $4800 . depending on reticle and color and turrets , ok well if you use it at 6x or before 8x , they tunnel badly meaning when you look threw scope at low power you see the tube and image is small , and another thing say a PF4 ffp reticle you cant see the reticle it is so thin , Now the scope is tier 1 scope and great 10x to 25x
O own a schmidt bender 5x45 with tremor 3 well 45x is not clear but great out to about 35x , so the last 10 not useable 90percent of time no matter of condition , this costs $7knone defective just how it is