Nice shooting Guy. Yeah, nice shooting Guy. I'm pretty sure you
hit him on every single shot. Get it John? Well this hunt is now concluded fellas.
Hey guys, Guy Eastman here today on this week's video we're going to talk a
little bit about rifle scopes before we get started I just want to say make sure
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forward it on to somebody. Anyway we're going to talk about rifle scopes today,
the Zeiss HD 5 in particular I use this scope exclusively last year I was able
to kill really nice antelope, elk and deer with it so it worked very very well.
Very very lethal weapon when you put it on on your your rifle, I'm just going to
talk a little bit today about scopes in general and also this scope in
particular and how it works. This scope is a one-inch diameter the Conquest. This
is a Zeiss Conquest HD 5 it's a 3 to 15 by 42, what that means is it's a super
zoom which means that the multiplier on the zoom is multiplied by 5 and the old
days they only had multiplied by 3 so if the lower power was 3 it would go to 9
power so be adjustable from 3 to 9. These super zooms now go to 5 so if it's a the
lowest power this goes is 3 but it goes clear up to 15 so that's kind of a new
technology that's 3 or 4 years old in the industry. So this is a super zoom 3
to 15 power by 42. It's a very compact scope it's less than 14 inches
long it has a 1 inch tube, so that's very common in America the Conquest is Ziess'
kind of middle-of-the-road line, this scope retails for under $1000 so it's
pretty economical not the most economical but pretty economical. They do
have a version or a model that's above this that'll be much more expensive and
it has a 30 millimeter tube which is a little more metric than than what we use
here in America which is pretty standard 1 inch tube. So that's that's how that
works it has a Rapid Z reticle in it, they make a Rapid Z 600 and a Rapid Z 800.
The Rapid Z is in my opinion the most lethal reticles you can put in
a scope. A lot other companies have them as well but Zeiss calls theirs the Rapid Z.
How it works is inside the reticle on the scope
it has distance holdover hash marks and you can adjust your scope because you're
the reticles in the second focal plane you can adjust your scope and maximize
it so that the hash marks hit certain distances. We'll talk a little bit more
about that here in a minute, here's the packaging it comes in. Very nice, of coarse
European style packaging, nice bull elk there, this scope was developed by
Zeiss for the Western trophy hunter in mind. So it's, it's right in the
wheelhouse of what we look for out west as far as the scope is concerned. We talked
about the one inch tube, it's less than fourteen inches long it adjusts from
three all the way to 15 power, but the real power inside the scope is the
reticle, Rapid Z 600. Basically what you do is you program going to when you want
you to get the scope of course you mount it onto your gun, go onto Zeiss' website
zeiss.com, I think it's actually zeisssportsoptics.com and there's a
ballistic reticle software web based program in there where you basically go
in, tell the program, the software what scope you have and then you program in
the stats from your rifle. This is a 270 short mag right here
I shoot a Hornady 150 grain inter bond, so I program in what what caliber, what
grain bullet, I can even program in what elevation I shoot at I usually sight my
guns in for 5280, which is mile high, 58 to 59 degrees, and you program all
that in and it will tell you what, what magnification to put your scope at to
maximize those hash marks so this one it tells me to put my scope at 14.5 power
so I don't shoot it at 15 power, I shoot it a 14.5 power,
which is almost 15 but it makes every one of those hashes perfectly almost
perfectly in line with the distance. So the four hash is 397 yards the five hash
is 504 yards the six hash is 609 yards you can see they're less than 10 yards,
less than 10 yards away from what they what they say so, it makes it
perfect so now when I look through the scope and I have a 14.5 power the 3 hash
is 300 yards before hashes is 397 yards which is basically 400 the 5 hash is 504
and the 6 hash is 609 yards so that means that this scope is completely
dialed in out to 600 yards. Of course like I mentioned they have a Rapid Z 800
which takes it out to 800 yards if you want to shoot even even further but for
me 600 yards is plenty so it's very very accurate very, very fool proof. One thing
you want to do is I take a little silver pen and mark on my scope where that hash
mark is because I have multiple guns and say on a 300 it might be 13 half-power
14 so once I get my scope all paired down to the right ammo exactly and the
gun dialed into what I want I put a little hash mark on the scope so when
I'm in the field I know exactly where to put that. The way that works though is
the center crosshair because it's in the second focal plane the center crosshair
is always dead-on. So if you're in the brush or in some
thicker cover and you turn your scope down and say 4 power the hash marks
underneath the crosshair do not work anymore for power the distances will be
way off but the standard crosshair is always right on the money so you don't
have to worry about that if you're turning your scope down on a whitetail
hunter or in the brush, or up close shot the center cross hairs still dialed
in right on the money but if you're going to shoot distance you want to make
sure that that's up to 14 half-power then all the holdover reticles are
exactly the right distances. The scope is very lightweight very compact like I
said this is built for the Western hunter in mind Conquest HD 5 scope has a
loaded tec coating on it which is for water so if
it gets water on there it just beads up and runs off so it doesn't fog
tends not to fog your scope I'm not going to say it's non fog able, so to
speak but if you do get water or snow that melts on there and it will beat up
and roll off the the lens it will not stick on the lens. So that's another plus
to the scope if you're having out in tough weather conditions which we all
know out west you can you can definitely, definitely have that kind of situation
going on on your hunts. The last thing is is pretty economical like I said this is
Zeiss' mid range scope it's not their high end it's not their their economy version
this is the mid range and this scope retails for less than $1,000 so it's a
very very powerful tool. I used it last year got a 87 inch antelope with it a
180 deer and a 360 bull elk in Montana so it, it worked well on all the species
deer, elk and antelope it would work great for for sheep or anything you
might hunt out west. So it's a probably the best suited western scope that
Zeiss has in their product line in my opinion and it's a very very well built European
product for less than a thousand dollars. This is a scope you can put on your gun
and keep it there for a lifetime pass it on to your kids so it's a great product
if you're interested in needing a new scope to put on your gun it's definitely
one to check out so make sure you go online check it out I hope you enjoyed
the video and we'll see you next week.