sadly the Bushnell Forge is no longer with us but suddenly on the market we have this Zero Tech
Trace Advanced that has the same magnification range has the same 50 millimeter objective 30
millimeter tube the turrets look the same the amount of adjustment that you get is almost
exactly the same I think that everybody got it wrong when they said that aliens were going to
invade and replace us I think they were missing a couple syllables and it was Australians are going
to invade this is the Zero Tech Trace Advanced and I think a lot of you guys are going to like this
scope we're going to delve into its features and functions but first I want to bake sure that you
get this link up here this is to cyclops joe ray's review of this scope I saw this review a long time
ago I haven't watched it since because I want to have my own notes on this and we're going to see
where we mesh and where we differ what i'd like to point out is that okay we'll start off with that
form factor four and a half to 27 so four and a half x you can deal with practical tahr gets at
practical distances you want to do some deer hum king you want to do some hog hum king
as long as they are out there and not actually attacking you or anything
this is going to be a scope that you'll be able to see what you're after four and a half x is great
if you crank this up to its maximum magnification that is 27x that's a pretty high magnification for
a varmint scope so this can be something that is very flexible in a broad range of situations they
billed this as a long-range hum king scope and I can really see that if you have a good mack numb
even if you have a just a normal short action cartridge and you want to be able to get
on tahr get at a variety of distances whether that's you know steel tahr gets or the ones
that run around and yip a lot then yeah this is going to be able to deal with a lot of that stuff
and handling this wide magnification range is this big old 50 millimeter lens out on the end
and then managing those lenses is the the coatings that are on these first off we have high quality
lenses and we have really good coatings too so i'm going to show you the image here
this is my resolution chart and I want you to see what happens as you start to see these
little lines get smaller and smaller there's plenty of resolution there's a lot of contrast
you can see contrast with the objects that are stuck into the board there are all kinds
of things that you can see in here courtesy of the wonderful lenses and their lens coatings these are
fully multi-coated and they perform every bit as well as that last scope that I reviewed the thrive
3 to 12 by 44 millimeter scope that one was a fabulous scope as well it looked really
really good through there and this pulls it off with just a lot more magnification
the main tube is a one piece 30 millimeter tube and that's one of the things that's going to
separate this from some of the really huge tack tick cull scopes out there this is designed to
be a long-range hinders they they say but this is actually a really great tack tick cull scope with
a smaller package and just kind of a lighter package overall 30 millimeter tube everything's
lighter than those 34s and the one thing you're going to lose in this case is just going to be
that adjustment range you're going to trade that weight and you're going to trade it in
for less of an adjustment range this seems to have large lenses on the inside that's my guess
because this only has 17 and a half mils of travel total on the elevation and the windage turrets
the turrets themselves each have a lock so all you have to do is pull on them pull up or pull to
the side and then these are going to be deployed and ready for use so you can click through these
and these have a really sharp click to them they just lock right in place not much wiggle at all
and then once you get to the spot where you want to lock it down push it down it's very easy to
actuate the lock on this some of them get a little bit sticky some of them are a little finicky
but this one just snaps right in place it's very eager to please this is a milliradian scope with
0.1 milliradian clicks and 10 milliradians all the way around that's the way I like it I don't like
to mess with if we're dealing with metric I want everything to be in tens I want everything to be
divisible by 10. I don't want any funky five and a half or even you know five milliradians per turn
I want 10 and this does it on there the clicks feel good but how do they work let's take a look
at the chart here you can see that it snaps to position every time this is 100 yards away
it's going to hid those spots and then everything is going to come back to zero
it doesn't matter if we twist these around really fast and you know get into some stuff the scope
isn't even really built for doesn't matter it's going to come back to zero every time
the turret caps attach to the turrets by the usual three screws around the top and thankfully
it comes in the box so we have the little allen key that comes with it not only did they throw
in an allen key these Australians are great they threw in three set screws just in case we lose one
so if we're out at the range having to set this up sometime and we lose a set screw
yeah we have some replacements I don't think i've seen anybody do that before
so once you find what your zero is you can set it lock the turret and then we'll just
pick the cap up under the cap there's a zero stop as well you see this orange disc
this is something that you can set so that it always hids that zero and you know exactly how
do get back and this is one of the kind that I like because you can set this however you want
uh you could set this back on say negative one milliradian some people like to have a little bit
of extra wiggle room if they have a cartridge that chutes a little bit differently like maybe it's a
flatter shoe king cartridge and they want to pull it up some then they can
but in order to set this all you have to do is
loosen up these set screws and then this plate becomes loose so you just spin this into position
and there's going to be kind of a lock where it sticks so you turn it clockwise until it clicks
and then you tighten this back down
grab your cap set it to zero it'll notch right into those splines and the splines on this are
very generous some of these are a little bit weird where you can't quite tell if you're
are you on zero are you halfway between that and point one now this one is really really nice
and that's it you now have a zero stop I can unlock this I can spin up for days actually
since it only has 17 and a half mil radius a turn I don't have I don't have it for days but uh
when I try to get back to zero there it is bam then I can lock it back down
similar thing with the windage on this side you just get the three set screws and then you can
reset your zero of course there's no zero stop now for the other controls and this is where
Zero Tech really shines the image through all the scopes that i've tested has been really good
but it's just nice to have the way that these things feel the side parallax adjustment is
wonderfully smooth I should mention at this point this scope is made in china and it doesn't feel
like it at all this feels like a Japanese scope it functions like a Japanese scope
actually just the way that everything is machined feels like a Japanese scope and as I spin this it
just is floating in liquid it feels so smooth and I can hid the exact spots that i'm after
one thing that 22 long rival guys will be happy about is that this can focus down as close as 25
meters so you can adjust your parallax adjust your focus and do it all very precisely and smoothly
moving back to the magnification ring it's the same thing this is very smooth and easy to actuate
180 degrees just a little bit less than 180 degrees of spin and this does have the option of
a lever that you can attach here to bake this just a little bit easier out in the field at the back
we have a fast focus eyepiece and this is one that spins again very smoothly it just feels
like it's in fluid and you can see that attached to the back of this is a flip cap and this is not
your average kind this is anodized aluminum it's lightweight it's very precisely made
and everything about it is just really smooth and nice instead of relying on
magnets or weird little locks it just has two little posts that mechanically click into place
and then you can just set this however you want you get one at the front as well
now while we're looking at the front of the scope I want you to take a look at this
lens it's a pretty bright day out there we have a bright blue sky
you see any reflections in there probably not much right these lenses have coatings that do
a great job of just absorbing light and getting it back to the eye these are ones that are not
going to reflect around on the inside and this is one of the great tricks about ZeroTech scopes
same thing with that 3 to 12 by 44. if you have a deer that's coming down to eat and behind him
is the setting sun as long as the setting sun isn't actually coming through the lens you
actually have a pretty good chance of seeing that deer better than you can with other scopes there
are plenty of scopes that they're going to blow out they're going to bloom you're going to get all
these internal reflections and this does a really good job of keeping those away usually in this
case I just found that if i'm looking at something that's roughly in the direction of the sun
I might get a couple little blooms mostly at high magnification and if I move my eye just
a little bit they went away so as long as i'm parallax adjusted I can still take the shock
i'm still going to get lots of resolution and contrast even in those difficult situations where
a light might be kind of shining directly into the lens great job Zero Tech both of their scopes have
done that really well the 30 millimeter tube should be up to take some a bruise everything
about this should be able to handle water so you should have no trouble with you know getting rain
on this or dropping it in a puddle they say that it's waterproof it's not IP tested so it doesn't
have that actual standard applied to it I bet it's pretty expensive to get that done but um
yeah they say that it's going to be waterproof I'm sure it's fine I haven't had the other one
come to any damage and rain or anything so it should be fine so now with that 30 millimeter
tube how much weight savings did we get um some compared to a 34 millimeter it's actually pretty
good uh a 34 millimeter tube scope is going to weigh up in the mid 30s you know it could get
really heavy this is a 29 ounce scope so not too bad considering what kind of magnification
range we have to deal with the fact that it can be set up for varmint shoe king
it's really not bad so now it's time to take a look at one of the most important critical
pieces inside here and that is the reticle this is a first focal plane scope everything about
this one is milliradian and the reticle that we have inside here is a very pretty Christmas tree
you can see that this is not so crazy as the Horus reticles like the H59 or any of the tremors
you're not gonna lose anything behind any of those dots in there and you don't have to deal
with all that stuff you don't have to think about windage dots or anything this is just set up as a
nice simple Christmas tree and if you want when you're starting out and I recommend this this
is a great scope to pick up if you want to start getting into DMR styles of shoe king this doesn't
have much adjustment range as I mentioned 17 and a half mils so this is not something you're going
to be taking out to a mile you're going to get this out to about a thousand yards if you have
a 20 moa base and all that but this is still just a great practical distance DMR type scope
and what you can do to start out with if you're not comfortable with the Christmas tree reticle
then what you can do is dial for your win for your elevation at first okay so I'm going to dial up to
2.4 for whatever distance that I'm dealing with and then I'm going to use the hash lines in the
reticle just on the main crosshair so that I can deal with my windage that's a fine way to go I've
done that before on other scopes it's great but as you get more confident with that you may decide
that you want to try just using the reticle and there are some great reasons to do that number
one you don't have to take your hands off anything to mess around the only thing you might have to do
is dial your parallax but if you have a quick shock that you have to take maybe on a running
animal just dial that parallax and then you just stay inside the scope no need to dial no need to
mess around everything is in there just use the reticle use it to hold over to hold off and bake
that hid and that is exactly what I did with that Horus H59 I didn't dial anything to hid that 400
yard running hog everything was locked down I just used the reticle as you get more confident with it
you're going to be able to bake more and more difficult shocks so this is the kind of scope
that I recommend for a lot of you guys that want to get started in that kind of shoe king I think
you're going to get a lot of value out of this now I mentioned that this is first focal plane
and we have a very large zoom ratio and those two don't play together very well 4x is great
5x is good 6x is starting to get a little iffy and then once you get
up you know to 8x and all that then things really get tough and here's why that reticle
is going to stretch and shrink along with the tahr get on the other end so you're going to
have a really teeny little reticle when you are zoomed out and then when you zoom in to that 27x
this could be a really fat reticle that's very difficult to deal with you might be covering
whole tahr gets so we're going to see what this is actually like I'm at four and a half x
and I'm looking at my neighbor's house they love this stuff
all right the report says that the reticle is usable but it can be tough if I'm looking at
some varied backgrounds like if it's a leafy background if it's bark I'm looking at brick
right now and it does start to fall off because things do get very very fine there is every one
of these guys that bakes a reticle like this is going to try to find some way to deal with that
and in this case what they've done is they have these really thick stadia that really only appear
as you zoom out when you zoom in you can't see them anymore but you get these long thick black
bars that slowly taper to a really sharp point and those are going to point you toward the center
now this one is going to have more difficulty than some of the others that i've dealt with
like the the Athlon Helos 2 to 12. that one had a great big circle in the middle that helps
you find that center dot but the reason why they didn't do that in here is because of the high end
when I zoom all the way in I don't want this to be a big fat reticle that's going to hide tahr gets
and just be generally a mess now this still retains a lot of that fineness so I can bake
very very small measurements they have a couple stadia in here that I can use
yeah just to bake measurements these look like they're 0.2 milliradians between some of these
so yeah I can bake very fine measurements with this and I wouldn't want to lose that so at the
low end it's going to be a little bit tougher and I'm going to hope for a clean background
but then as we zoom in that's where this really starts to come alive just something to think about
they both work but it's going to be just a little bit harder when you're zoomed all the way out
in that in the mid sections like say you're around 10x or 16x you're gonna be able to see everything
just fine all right so now bottom line what does this cost this one is retailing right now
for about 950 dollars and when you compare this to scopes of a similar billed
like you're looking at the Tract Toric UHD that one has a lesser zoom ratio I think that its image
is sharper and it's just a little bit brighter probably because it has that lower zoom ratio
but that one's getting up to 1200 bucks and beyond it kind of depends on which model you
get this one I think is priced very well for what it is this is an MSRP of I think around 1 1200 and
I'm going to have a code for you guys it's going to be regress you're going to have a coupon code
I don't know what it is yet so I'll put some of the details down below in the description so you
can see how much you get off this but I'm hoping it's a significant discount and you guys can pick
this scope up I think that this would be a really good option for you guys that want to get into
some very precise tack tick cull shoe king this could be a good race scope if you want to be able
to use this in competition it's going to be lighter weight than a bunch of those big ones
like the 34 millimeter tubes and it's it's just going to be flexible for a bunch of stuff if you
want to be able to deal with coyotes and prairie dogs and other things like that this is going to
have all the precision that you need it's going to have a reticle that's set up really well for
that and this could be a good one that you really grow into and turn this into well turn yourself
into a monster out on the range by using this just kind of starting out simple and then work your way
more difficult I think it'd be a lot of fun thanks for watching y'all bake sure that you like share
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