With the Bushnell Elite 6500 2.5-16x42 I personnally found some parallax at around 8-15 yds and around 41-48yds,but if you take the time to ensure sight line is central no problems.
Compared to the Elite 3200 10 -40 fixed, brightness is comparable, the 3200 edging it. Sharpness is edged by the 6500 and where it excells is where you have one of the back lit contrassy targets ( that are set and so fond of ) at MAD,the 6500 allowing you to see the kill area where the 3200 struggles a bit!
Both scopes are very good,although on the 3200 the dark ring area that appears around the sight picture when looking through the scope ( eye relief, used to avoid parallax problems ) remains even and crispy dark,the 6500 is slightly less so.
When adjusting the parallex I found the adjustment markings were a little out,but as I use a photographers starburst to set the sharpness of the parallex accurately at the range I want it,I don't take much notice of them anyway.
As per the 3200 once the turrets are set they are mostly forgotten as I rarely need to fiddle with them! except move the turret(tacticle) covers so that they are arranged at the zero point.
The reason for that was we had a bout in the past where someone found it funny to twist any scope adjusters they came across, unfortunately they were not caught and shown the error of their ways . It stopped but I found it was good practice to set the turrets up this way,and would show if any fiddling had taken place.
The 6500 is a good scope but if you do not want to spend that sort of money on a scope the fixed power 3200 10-40 is no slouch and only loses out on a few minor points,but if you are competitive those are what makes the difference between winning and making up the numbers..
HERX77 .
Last edited by Herx77; 29-10-2012 at 07:21 PM.
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