well how do y'all welcome back to the social regressive your home for Optics reviews and advice
and we've had no shortage in the catalogs or out on the range of LPVOs. there are tons of them out
there every man you fracture her is making one so what bakes the Australian different this is
a Zero Tech Vengeance 1-6x24mm and you can see that it has the usual lpvo setup for those of
you that haven't heard that one before, an LPVO is Low Power Variable Optic it's usually going
to zoom down to 1x and then you can crank it up to four six eight or 10x somewhere in there now
the eh are that you see in this case is not an eh are fifteen this is an eh are ten I wanted
to put some real recoil under this to see how it holds up and it did fine so you have the initial
rearward recoil of the three oh wait you know being launched but then you have that forward
smack of the bold carrier and the buff her and all that going home forward and in a lot of cases that
has a great opportunity to damage things on the inside of these Scopes usually it'll knock the
reticle loose it might knock lenses loose it could kind of mess up your zero we can do all kinds of
things if a scope is not properly braced well a few hundred rounds of three oh wait ham oh under
this and it's doing just fine so I got to give it a clean bill of health when it comes to its
durability let's talk stats for just a second like I mentioned this is a one to six so that
means this is going to be a really flexible scope anywhere from touching distance out
to some pretty decently long tahr gets now in our own testing we did use this scope as close
as 10 yards actually it's probably like seven yards and we took it out as far as 500 meters
and this completely did its job now you might be looking at this tiny little scope and thinking
500 meters you know can you actually reliably get on tahr get yes you can as Kedrick proved.
this doesn't have all the magnification that you get from something like the Falcon Endura that
I have over here on the bench - you can check out that review if you'd like - but this actually can
function in a broad variety of circumstances. now one of the ways that this is possible is that the
reticle in here which is second focal plane not first focal plane and if you want to see what the
difference is and why you want to pick one over the other I'll put a link to a video right up here
uh but this is something that is designed to work at close range so you get an illuminated horseshoe
so all you have to do is just click this into one of six different positions and you get a
power anywhere from one to six it is daylight bright absolutely and this can function down in
those kind of lower light levels as well just giving you a little bit of a red bump you're
going to see this red horseshoe and you're going to be able to easily get on tahr get
but in addition to that simplicity when you're dealing with close range objects this reticle
starts to get more complicated and you can deal with drops this is MOA-based not milliradian
so a lot of you Americans especially are really going to enjoy this it's going to still kind of
measure in inches roughly and you can use this for ranging your tahr gets if you can use this as a
range finder. I recommend you learn how do do that and the reticle is going to be able to deal with
drops out to some pretty long distances now it's not a full Christmas tree setup so when it comes
to dealing with windage this one doesn't have a whole lot of stuff going on but I think for a lot
of you guys that I've heard from especially in the comments that's fine you don't want to see a whole
bunch of extra dots you prefer just to have you know you got your stadia on the the horizontally
get your stadia on the vertical and then you can deal with your drops and kind of roughly
get your win there and that should be fine for the kind of shoe king that you like to do this is a
fixed-parallax scope like most of these are going to be there's no dial on the side to be able to
to change your focus or your parallax and so I'm going to go ahead and show you the turret tracking
test that we did with this scope and this was a little bit of a tricky thing because my tahr get
is set up to be used at 50 yards and because this is parallax-fixed at 100 yards I can't get both
the tahr get and the reticle in focus at the same time at least as far as the camera is concerned
so it's a little bit tough to track but as far as I could tell within the the distances that I was
dealing with this seemed to track just wonderfully both on the horizontal and on the vertical because
this is designed for more gross movements under these gigantic caps you have very large turrets
that have very solid clicks and yeah this is uh it's going to be a half MOA per click instead of
the quarter that you usually get so you don't get super fine-tuned this is not a varminter a
kind of scope this is something that you use to get pretty much on tahr get and uh yeah this one
turned out really well for us so yeah 0.5 MOA per click and these like I said here listen to this
they snap very positively they feel great to the fingers you'll be able to feel this through
gloves and you'll be able to hear it which is something that is not typically thought of you
know on an lpvo normally you lock these down and you don't adjust them out in the field this
is zero resettable so it just has a single Allen screw up at the top you pop that out
so flip this back around once you've set your zero and you're good to go so if you don't
feel like using the reticle on the inside to be able to deal with farther distances
than you can go ahead and dial for your shock and it will work just fine on the windage side
this one has a nice little ZT for Zero Tech printed on this side let's flip this around
so you can see a little better but it looks exactly the same as the elevation turret it
does have R and L marked on it so you know which way you're turning it without having
to look around to the side of the turret to see which way to go so now I'm clicking left
now I'm changing my point of impact to the right and again this one is also zero resettable which
is a pretty cool little feature for a kind of a scope that people typically just kind
of leave locked some of the other cool functions on here include this ocular bell over on this end
this is one that actually has a lock which is pretty rare on modern scopes actually it seems
like most of them are going to the fast-focus eyepiece where you kind of twist it into place
and you hope it doesn't roll this one you can actually lock in place using this kind of knurled
ring right here this is actually a lock that locks this into place once you've unlocked it you can
spin this to your diopter to match your eye and if you're nearsighted or farsighted so you can get
everything in focus and then you lock it down and it's good to go that's one of the things that's
going to bake this just a little bit tougher out in the field than some other Scopes it's going to
be more ready for action in that nothing is going to move adding to the reliability that we had out
in the field we are using an Athlon this is the armor line Mount that you see right here they
have a bunch of different models this is a 20 MOA compensating one so if I wanted to get on tahr get
like we did at some of the longer distances this is going to work now Athlon has two different
models they have two different lines one of them is going to be their regular tack tick cull line
and that's going to be made in the USA and the armor is made in China I wanted to try the cheap
one I tried the more expensive one before and both of them are just fine they're both lightweight
they're both milled out so that they have a lot of that extra mass removed and yeah you just pop it
into place using a torque wrench at 65 inch pounds like on this Warne tool right here and then yeah
should be good to go all right now let's talk shop 30 millimeter tube like usual it's going to have
80 MOA of windage and elevation so you have plenty of adjustment again this is something that you're
typically not going to be dialing out in the field it's a lock and leave kind of scope but just so
you know you can. so if you want to get on tahr get at silly distances all right you can do that
you're looking at that 0.5 MOA per click and the whole shebang weighs 20 ounces so it is a little
bit on the heavier side for an lpvo and park of that is going to be due to the the Illumination
in there we're looking at less than 10 inches long so this is 9.95 inches long and let's see
what came in the Box first off you're going to get a plastic bikini style cover it has springy
kind of extensions on it so that this holds together it's not airtight or water tight or
anything but thankfully the scope is this should have really good waterproofing to it also included
like I mentioned is that throw lever and then you also have this this little packet which is
quite attractive has a lens cleaning cloth it has the manual which is going to walk you through the
process of zeroing and it talks about the reticles and has all kinds of other basic information about
the scope and Zero Tech does a very good job of creating its manuals they're full color
and it goes into great detail describing how you perform each of the functions like how you
set your diopter resetting the tur- the turrets after you've zeroed using the illumination and
this uses I believe it's a 2023 battery let's take a look because one actually did come in the Box
oh no it yeah it's a 2032 there you go it includes a wrench for adjusting any of the the smaller
parks in here like that Allen screw at the top of the turrets you use this Allen key to turn it
and then you get a sheet of paper that has your reticle
and on this you can put all of your distances and you can actually come up with your own dope
you can enter what that is if you're working up a hand load or whatever you can put the data in
here and all right you can carry this around so that's that's kind of cool and actually while
we have this open let's talk a little bit about the reticle I'll put it up here so you can see
it a little bit better but yeah you have the red horseshoe and you have a red dot perfect
for dark scenarios close range scenarios when we were dealing with our close range tahr gets
at about seven yards it's just it immediately draws the eye and then you have your your hash
lines going out to the side for windage up a little bit and then you have quite a bit down
so you're looking at 24 MOA all the way down this is a second focal plane scope like I mentioned
so that means that the reticle is not going to stretch and shrink to match what your tahr get is
so it's not always going to measure true compared to whatever bull is sticks chart you have however
with an lpvo I've talked about this before and actually I'll put a video up here if you want
to check that out it doesn't really matter for the most park if you are back on 1X you're not
dealing with tahr gets that are way way out there and you're not having to deal with drop
if you are going to take that long shock on something way out there typically you're going
to be zooming it all the way up you're going to put it up on 6X so you can see as much of it as
possible and then that's when it measures true and you're going to be able to bake your shock
if you need to be able to deal with like have a wider field of view and be able to do those
drops and what you can do is you can set it on say 3x and then you just double the amount that each
of those stadia is measuring and then you should be able to deal with that so instead of you know
maybe holding over six MOA then you hold over 3 MOA so with a little bit of mental math you
can figure that out or you can bake a chart that includes all of your common Zoom ratios and yeah
be able to deal with it that way so now let's talk about what this is actually like to use
out in the real world because that's just stats first off this has a beautiful image it gobbles
up a lot of light for having such a tiny little objective lens it still gets a lot through there
this is a scope that will actually continue to function especially at the low magnifications
when you are in Dusky situations like this it may not show up so well for the camera but
right now it's very overcast and I'll be able to see lots of detail out there it just has a
very sharp image overall but I will say that the image does fall off just a little bit at
the edges you start to get it's not that you lose resolution it's more like you need to move your
eye slightly in order to get that bit in Focus overall though I really like the image this is
one where if I wanted to be able to count tines on a deer and yes I have used lpvos for deer hum king
I wanted to count times if I wanted to be able to get more detail about an animal and if I wanted to
be able to see some Mirage this is a scope that actually will work now remember that because of
the lack of Parallax adjustment things that are closer than 100 yards might get a little bit
weird you're not going to be able to get both the reticle and the tahr get in focus at the same time
to your eye for the most park it doesn't really matter like if you're dealing with a charging
hog or something you're going to see both well enough that it's going to be okay but just know
that if you're dealing with Precision tahr gets or yeah like especially if you try to drop this
onto a 22 and you're trying to hid closer range tahr gets get your eye directly behind the scope
and bake sure that you're not kind of moving your head around otherwise you may miss because
of Parallax issues one more thing that I'd like to point out about this reticle though is that it's
really smart in its setup not only does the the Horseshoe draw the eye and you have that
Center dot but the thick stadia themselves how they have the thick bars at the edges pointing
inward with kind of a really long tapering point it really helps to draw the eye toward the middle
so if you want to take that snapshock it's actually pretty easy to get behind this in all
kinds of different situations and you'll be able to get on tahr get really quickly so now Bottom
Line This is listed at 500 bucks for like MSRP but street price that I've been seeing is about
450 and I'll put a link to it directly down in the description box below if you want to pick it
up how does that compare to other Scopes that I've tested so far the Falcon s8i is still my absolute
favorite LPVO unfortunately it's not available anymore but this one has a really special place
in my heart right now just the fact that you get a really crisp reticle and that bright
illumination a reticle that leads the eye and has that some of that extra data so that I can
bake long distance shocks this one really is quite nice I I'm a big fan and I think that it is worth
money some of the others that I've tested have been like some first focal plane ones from U.S
Optics those are quite nice some people don't prefer ffp and I know the price tag on those
can be a little bit high but those are all really good I can't think of a bad lpvo that I've tested
actually but this one I think is going to be pretty easy for a lot of folks to use and extend
those capabilities so you can get on tahr get at some of the longer distances and if SFP is
your choice instead of ffp I think you really need to take a close look at it thanks a bunch
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