Welcome to the Social Regressive! In a few videos I've referenced this Weaver
grand slam multi stop scope as the weirdest scope that I've ever tested and
in my testing I found that it works really well for certain applications; so
what we're gonna do is we're gonna delve into this scope we're gonna take a look
at those peculiarities and see if maybe this applies to certain functions that
you have in mind. now before we do that I wanted to give a shout out to my patrons
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ahead let's take a close look at this Weaver grand slam multi stop scope and
see what makes it work the grand slam multi stop comes in two models there's
the 4-16x44 millimeter and then this one which is the 5-20x50
millimeter they both have a 1 inch tube. overall length on this high
magnification one is 13.4 inches and weight is 23.2 ounces so that makes this
heavier than that 2.5-10x44 millimeter Bushnell Engage that we
reviewed recently and it does make this a little bit heavy for a hunting style
scope but once you dig in and see what kind of things this thing can do you
might see if that weight is worth the trade. the side parallax adjustment rolls
all the way down to 25 yards which is handy for me because instead of putting
this on a hunting rifle like most people will probably do with these I decided to
put this on a 22 and see how it could perform in various situations and it
really did fantastically and this is a good time to point out just the
precision and the Japanese manufacturer of this thing it is just very well
polished all around and every one of the dials on this thing just feels perfect
there are no steps in this thing tension is just right this thing feels
just wonderful and even just the contour of the turrets themselves they're just
brilliantly laid out this whole thing it's not going to snag on anything it
has a somewhat conical shape on here and then when it comes to any of the other
turrets you can see that they're nicely rounded across the top you get traction
on some of the the sides here and everything just feels really high
precision as you might expect the glass on this scope is gorgeous resolution is
wonderfully high contrast is great and you get excellent color reproduction it
also has a really good eye relief considering the fact that this thing
does magnify all the way up to 20x and it's not that difficult to get your eye
in the right place behind this scope now that we have the baseline stats out of
the way let's take a look at some of the weirdness that I was alluding to this
scope doesn't feature any numbers all the way around if you look at this from
the outside instead what you have are these little colored tabs right here so
when you spin this you get these stop points based on color and what's really
cool about this is of course these are going to align with some kind of drop
related to your cartridge but the neat thing is that you actually set these
yourself so right here here are the little replacement tabs that you can put
in there so you get a whole bunch of colors you get yellow orange greens reds
blues and then all you have to do is just pick where on this inside dial
those drop into so let's take a look at that once you remove this top screw this
cap comes right off and inside this cap there are some splines that made up with
some splines inside this and this you can kind of think of as the may be true
turret cap it's kind of an intermediary piece this whole thing just lifts right
out alright so there's the turret down there
this mates up with splines right on top of here and then you can set the
position of all these little colored markers you can see that this
intermediary piece includes numbers all the way around up to 18 MOA so all you
have to do is just make a ballistic chart and then put your drops in at the
correct positions and one of the neat things is that if you go on Weaver's
website you can actually use their ballistic tool to create a special
little chart that goes into the objective lens cover on this scope it
actually has a clear sleeve on it and this is a very nice objective lens cover
this thing is held in place by a magnet not by the usual little you know like
claws or anything like that it's a very just high polished piece it's a piece of
aluminum and it has this neat sleeve here and then you can put in this
special chart that they'll create for you and if you print it in color it's
actually going to correspond to the colors that you place on this dial and
one thing that the website states is that this is a 1/8 MOA per click turret
cap on both the elevation and the windage and as far as I can tell no it's
not true it's actually one-quarter now one quick note on the positioning of
these tabs you can only place these every two clicks you can't put them
exactly everywhere you want so it's not going to be accurate to the click or to
the quarter MOA they're actually accurate to the half MOA so you might in
your chart need to make an indication okay yeah go to orange for 50 yards or
whatever and then give it one extra click the way that you zero this scope
is to take your shot and then adjust this actual turret right here it does
include a little coin slot you can use the rim of a piece of brass and then you
just crank this around until you get your zero just right then you take your
little intermediate piece right here that has all of your drop set the way
that you want you put that on top place the cap on screw this down and then
you're ready to go I do have one word of caution if you're interested in this go
this pin right here that you see sticking into the side and the pin that
you see inside this piece right here these two set up the zero stop there is
kind of a fixed zero stop in here so that when you are attached right here
and you try to turn this dial past that zero point it is going to stop there is
an issue with this though in that you only get one revolution of this cap
before it stops in the other direction so once you spin this thing all the way
around it also comes to a stop this is probably not going to be an issue for
most folks within reasonable ranges but if you want to be able to do extreme
long-range work or anything like that you are going to be limited by this
cap there may be some things you can do like backing this screw out and removing
it I did give that a try to see if I could open up some of the distance there
it may be locked hided or something I'm not sure I could not back that screw out
or you could maybe shave that pin off on the inside of this but just know that
the zero stop can be an issue if you are going to have some kind of distance that
goes beyond eighteen MOA weaver didn't stop the innovation with this elevation
turret the reticle on the inside pairs with this perfectly assuming that you're
going to be doing all of your drops using that turret the reticle is free to
just do windage so you get this nice little target dot in the center which is
it's a really nice balance of fine and being able to find this thing if you're
in kind of a a more dense environment and then it just provides windage which
is going to be true at your highest magnification at least on this 20x scope
at 20 X this is going to measure a true four MOA eight MOA and then all the way
out you have 12 MOA so do these differences really make a difference in
my testing yes this isn't just a unique scope on the market it's one that
actually makes a lot of sense it's really slick and for the first time when
I saw the stats on this thing and how it worked it just it just
clicked it made a whole lot of sense I really enjoyed using this thing in
matches I could just set my elevation for the known distances that I was
dealing with and then all I had to do is just think about the windage in that
reticle I think that hunters especially those in open plains are out in the
Rockies places where you might have long distances to take a shot or really
variable ranges I think they would really enjoy this scope especially when
paired with a rangefinder if there's one limitation of the reticle it's that you
only get windage for doing any kind of range finding and it doesn't include a
lot of the little intermediary hashes that you might get with certain other
milling types of scopes this will work and it'll definitely work better than
your average duplex or a cross hair type scope but still you just don't have a
whole ton of data for ranging so if you have a rangefinder I think that'd be a
good match for this and as far as competitors go I think they
might find its feature set really interesting to the typical match scope
for silhouette rifle which is what I shot in is going to have an adjustable
objective out here and it's going to have big target turrets and all that and
this actually does kind of fit most of those bills in that you do have a side
parallax adjustment right there and you can set your drops right here it makes
it really quick instead of having to think about what the actual numbers are
for your different ranges you just turn to that color and then it just works
right there and this is how it's going to work in silhouette matches anyway
where you're really just gonna be dealing with wind when you finally take
the shot you're gonna have that turret set up for your range and then you just
mess with wind the windage turret is a zero it and leave it sort of feature you
just twist this cap off right here and you get a small dial right here and this
is also one quarter MOA per click and all you do is just click this around and
then you leave it for whatever your 0 is and then you just close this thing back
up you can remove this right here if you want to make sure to zero this out like
I actually have on here you just back this out with a torque screw pop this
off Reesie row it just like you are used to with a lot of other scope
the eyepiece on this scope is the fast focus type so instead of having a
locking ring like you used to get on the traditional hunting scope this one is
always loose and you can move it around and bite loose I mean it actually is
kind of tight this isn't going to accidentally move around on you easily
there's a fair bit of tension going on here
but what I would recommend for anybody that has this type of eyepiece and I do
this on all my scopes just make a mark I've made a little kind of light mark up
at the top to indicate that's my diopter adjustment just in case something does
get moved both of the multi stop models have that 4x zoom ratio that I talked
about so this one goes from 5 up to 20 and since 20 is where everything is kind
of true inside that reticle it's going to measure if it says 4 MOA then it's
going to measure 4 MOA but the neat thing is with that 4 X multiplier if you
do back off to 5x then anything that's 4 is going to measure 16 and so on so it's
going to make the math pretty easy think of the weaver grand slam multi
stop as a replacement for your very limited hunting style scopes or is an
interesting alternative to a target scope you easily get elevation out of
the way using the turret up here and then you can just spend your time in
that reticle either addressing windage or leading a moving target you get this
nice flexible zoom range that makes the math kind of easy if you need to back
off just make sure before you buy this scope that your combination of cartridge
and the reasonable distance is at what you'll be hitting your targets is going
to be within that 18 MOA thanks for watching if you like this
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