I had two of the first focal plane Lightstream.

Optically they are brilliant, but it seems that much of the bright picture is due to the ret being formed from wire rather than engraved in the glass.

The worst aspect however is the parallax error if using holdover (so I'm a wee bit surprised by the comments about it being a great HFT 'scope.....it's not!) As a dial in for the range being shot it makes an excellent sniper 'scope.

Then again I bought a Bushnell 6500 & thought that to be way over rated too.

I've no experience with the upper end 'scopes such as S&B or Ziess by the way

ATB

Ken