Last updated on July 16th, 2025
Revealed at Shot Show 2022 in the US and IWA in Germany, Schmidt & Bender have designed a new version of their famous Police and Military (PM) optics series.
One of the most notable features of this optic include its massive magnification range of 6-36×56. This is a step up from S&B’s standard 5-25 PM II’s whilst also being more compact. Other major features include lower profile turrets, a metal magnification adjustment ring and the illumination dial being moved onto the same dial as the parallax adjustment.
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Like its predecessors, the new PM II from Schmidt & Bender is a premium optic designed to be used in very harsh environments where reliability is paramount. A recent interview with a S&B representative this month at IWA in Germany stated that the optic would retail from 3200 Euro and go upwards depending on configuration.
Schmidt & Bender’s website states the following:
The new S&B 6-36×56 PM II offers the best solution for medium to extreme long-range shooting. Like all of our PM II riflescopes, we designed and manufactured this 6x zoom riflescope according to MIL-STD- 810G for handling the harshest environments. Outstanding image quality with a wide field-of-view (FOV) provides superior detail recognition. Reduced weight and size makes it very compact while the new LPI illumination also enables left handed use. The efficient 6-36x magnification range is combined with a 39.5 MRAD elevation turret which supports more precise shot placements.
Technical Specifications
| Weight (g) | 940-995 |
| Length (mm) | 390 |
| Tube diameter (mm) | 34 |
| Magnification | 6-36 |
| Objective lens diameter (mm) | 56 |
| Field of view (m) | 7.3–1.25 |
| Field of view [USA] (m) | 6.2–1.05 |
| Exit pupil (mm) | 8.3–1.6 |
| Eye relief distance (mm) | 90 |
| Twilight factor | 17.3–44.9 |
| Transmission | >90 |
| Focal plane | 1. |
| Diopter | –3 to +2 |
| Parallax adjustment | 20 m to ∞ |
| Illumination | yes |
| Waterproof (m) | 3 (10 / 20 / 25 on request) |
| Temperature range | |
| Storage | –55 bis +71 °C |
| Function | –46 bis +61 °C |
| Turret Types | cw/ccw |
| Colors | Black / RAL8000 |
| Reticles | P5FL, GR²ID |
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