well howdy y'all welcome to the social regressive today's optics review is going
to be a little bit different than normal this is just a blanket buy this i don't normally do that
if you are looking for a rival scope for your deer hum king and you want something that can bake your
rival a bit more flexible so that in the off season you can use it for maybe coyote hum king
or you know being able to take some smaller game do some things that are a little bit different
take that farther shock on a smaller tahr get this really is the scope for you uh this thing is just
flatly amazing this is the zero tech thrive from australia three to 12 by 44 millimeter
so yes it has that low magnification that you're going to get with your average deer
scope 3x and you can just go right on past that normal 9 up to 12x because this does have that
that higher magnification you're going to get side parallax adjustment right here on the side
if you want to understand what side parallax adjust is all about i recommend that you check
out my whole optics series that i did 17 parks talking about how do select the various parks
of a rival scope how do select the rival scope that's best for you and the actual situation
where you're going to be hum king you might want to check that out before you bake any purchase i
mean except for this one just go ahead and buy it but yeah because this is a higher magnification
you're going to want to be able to not only roll more precise focus on whatever you're shoe king at
but you want to be able to get all of your focal planes neatly lined up so that if you accidentally
move your eye off the center of the scope just a little bit you're not going to miss your shock
because that's what can happen if you are not properly parallax adjusted you may actually have
your reticle lined up on your tahr get but because your eye is off center you may actually throw this
shock completely off so this allows you to get everything neatly lined up and because this is
that that higher magnification you know yeah you can do your normal deer hum king down in the three
to nine area and then if you want to be able to deal with some smaller tahr gets or ones that are
a little bit farther off you can crank this up a little higher and you can get more precision
with this side parallax adjustment right here if you want to just do your normal deer hunk
say you're up in the stand you don't want to be fiddling with this just go ahead and lock it on
100 meters for the the parallax adjustment and it's going to behave just like your normal three
to nine by 40 scope the controls are all easy to work with you have a nice smooth but firm parallax
adjustment here on the side it doesn't take a lot of turning to get between all of its various spots
but because the glass in here is so good you don't have to have a whole lot of movement in here in
order to hid your precise spot we'll talk about that here in a second the zoom ring is also it's
kind of a medium right in the middle it's a little bit firm it's not going to accidentally spin
on you if you bump it against your clothing if you're out in the woods but at the same time it's
also not going to throw off your shock if you are trying to roll focus and you can see your critter
it's probably not going to move things off very much it's going to be pretty smooth to turn
the eyepiece adjustment right here the diopter adjustment this one is a little bit on the fast
side for me so i recommend that if you do buy one of these scopes bake some dots on
here to remind yourself of where your perfect diopter adjustment is and if you're curious to
know what that's all about you got to check out that optic series so you can understand
the different kinds of eyepieces that you might have and why you need to roll a different diopter
for different people's eyes this form factor overall 3 to 12 by 44 means that you're going to
get a larger objective lens that's good it's going to absorb more light than your 40 and that's going
to bake this work into dusk when a lot of those animals start coming down out of the woods it
also means that it's going to weigh a little bit more also the fact that this is a 30 millimeter
tube that means that this will weigh a little bit more than your average one inch or three to nine
by 40 scope its weight is really not all that bad let me go ahead and throw out i've got my
my stats right here on my phone its weight is 21.4 ounces so yes it weighs more than a pound
it's kind of in the middle of some of the other scopes that we're going to be talking about here
it's um it's not the heaviest it's not the lightest but you do pay a little bit for the
extra advantage of that extra magnification and a little bit of a heavier duty billed quality
as well the 30 millimeter tube is going to bring a couple things yes it's probably going to bake this
scope a little bit tougher than your one incher but i think that they've also put some larger
lenses on the inside and the way that i can guess that is first off the image through here is just
mind-blowingly good we'll show that here in just a little bit but also these capped turrets don't
have much adjustment range this is not going to be a long range scope by any means this has 60 moa
of adjustment and that's going to mean that you're going to pretty easily be able to get this
on tahr get you're going to be able to get your zero you'll have plenty of play
in order to get in the right spot but then if you want to be able to take some longer shocks
yeah if you're within medium ranges you can do that so maybe you can bake some hids with your
average short action cartridge out to maybe as far as a thousand yards that's probably about as
far as you'll be able to push it because of the adjustment range that you have here that's going
to be 60 moa up and down 60 moa left and right and again that is not very much at all there are three
different reticles that you can choose in here though all of them are second focal plane the
one that i have been looking at and you're going to see in this image right here this is the phr-3
this is their professional hinder one so this kind of takes the duplex idea breaks it up a little
bit it gives you a central aiming dot and then it gives you some kind of thinning lines around there
and some gaps and this may be a way that you can deal with moving tahr gets a little bit better so
you can continue to see your animal hold off and be able to hid a running animal if you know your
speeds and what sort of values you're going to be dealing with there are also two other reticles you
have the regular duplex reticle if you like just a simple crosshair and you want to maybe be able
to differentiate a little bit better out in the woods and then you also have the mill dot if you
are someone that especially wants to be able to deal with some smaller animals at longer distances
if you want to be able to use this as your coyote rig i would recommend the mil-dot if you're up at
12x it's going to measure true and you can bring your bull is sticks card out there and be able
to deal with wind and drop a little bit better actually a whole lot better than you would with
your average hum king style of reticle as far as the turret tracking precision goes you can see in
this video here i'm going through uh by moa's this is moa all around on the turrets remember that if
you have the mil dot reticle that's going to be measuring mills but the the turrets are always
going to be measuring moa but these click very precisely they have a pretty good snap to them
you can feel them you can hear them just a little bit this is not a turret that tracks up and down
though to give you uh graduations again this is not one that is designed to be really taking
those really really long shocks but it will get you more precise within those medium distances
but they do feel very positive and it's easy to reset the zero you can see this big screw
here at the top you can use a coin you can use the rim of a cartridge turn that off pop it off
slap it back down and this locks in by spline so it's not accidentally gonna float on you
it's just wonderful the way they built this all around everything about it is very precise and
it's not likely to cause you any issues out in the field each click is one quarter moa as you would
expect with a hum king style of scope and for most of you yeah you're going to keep this thing capped
now even without the the caps on this is a waterproof scope and it's fog proof and
here's where we start getting into the really fun park of this the glass in here is just excellent
side to side from top to bottom it doesn't matter where you are when you're tracking
through the turrets it doesn't matter if you're looking off to the edge of the scope
or straight through the middle you are going to get a beautiful pristine image through this
they picked some wonderful lens elements and that's everything from the objective lens all the
way back through the ocular they all add up really well you get very very little chromatic aberration
you can see that there's barely any color fringing at all this is one of those wonderful
scopes that it doesn't feel like you're looking through a scope it's more like you've taken the
object and brought it closer to you it's bright it's vibrant contrast is high colors are excellent
and you can see when i zoom out the camera here that the two items you're looking inside the scope
and outside of it at the same time and it all just matches up there's no weird color cast to it
everything is bright and vibrant and i think that's what sets this apart in a big way from
most of the other scopes you're going to find out on the market we're going to compare here in a bit
not only does its resolution hold up edge to edge and all the way through its adjustment range but
it just has a higher resolution overall as you look at my resolution chart through the scope
you'll notice that we can see very fine details all the way down as these get smaller and smaller
that's not all these lenses have some other tricks as i point this at the camera
there's some brightness up here in the sky and you probably can't see too much reflection going
on and that's because the lens coatings on here are really of the highest quality we're talking
about 92 percent transmission through these so you're going to get a lot of light collection
even with that larger lens this is going to work really well not just into the dust hours
but beyond so after the sun has set after you have that 30 minutes of trying to get your whide tail
this is going to continue to show you everything yeah you can dial back to get even more brightness
you can probably actually leave this scope a little bit on the higher side and still be
able to see lots and with these lens coatings as good as they are it's also going to prevent any of
those light leaks big reflections on the inside so if you are pointing roughly in the direction
of the sun if that's where your animals are going to be as the sun is going down you're not going
to get that big wash out that you're going to get with a bunch of the other scopes out on the market
this just just kind of gobbles up light and doesn't allow a lot of those reflections
you're going to continue to see that deer even if the sun is just a little bit off axis behind it
it's just not going to bloom out like you're going to get with a bunch of other scopes
one of the big deals about the very low chromatic aberration that you're seeing in these images
is that out of focus objects are going to appear very natural this is just like
what i want out of a good camera lens i don't want anything distracting i don't want weird
uh circles on background objects you know weird hard edges and i don't want to be able to see it
split into its component colors it really bakes for an unnatural kind of horrible experience
i want to just see things you know in focus out of focus with natural coloration and this really does
that you don't get that kind of light bloom at the edges that you might get with certain scopes
so you get kind of a funky bokeh where things that are out of focus kind of look like a whole bunch
of rings it's just very smooth overall it it's obvious that they put a whole lot of work into the
image coming through here and then they've just tacked on their excellent mechanicals as well and
you end up with a scope that like i say is very very good for the money all of that beautiful
image coming in through the front filtering through the zoom elements and the erector elements
is not let down by the eyepiece at the back you get very little tunneling on here you just get a
very thin black band and all of this adds up to a scope that does exactly what i want it to do
i want it to disappear i want to just feel like i'm looking at my tahr get close up and that
i'm just you know it's just me the reticle the deer and my trick her finger i want
everything else to disappear and this scope does that that's why i'm raving about this especially
since this only costs 350 that's going to put you in leupold vx2 to vx3 sort of territory
it's going to get you into some of the similar vortexes but this is going to blow them all the
way and let me describe some of the competition that we have here last year when i went on
that hunk with win chest her testing out 6.8 western i'll put a link to that video up here
i was using the vx6 hd so that's hd glass it has a 6x zoom ratio and it's a scope that costs about
1900 plus dollars if you go out to opticsplanet right now it's going to cost you about 1900 bucks
i like this scope better and let me describe why yes the vx 6 hd had some really cool tricks up
its lead sleeve it had that higher magnification ratio it had a more interesting reticle where it
had those lines for drop that i really really enjoy it had a really cool turret up top that
had a zero stop built in and all you'd have to do is just press this button and then you could
bake your adjustments for different ranges turn it back and it would snap back into place
really cool setup and you can actually set it up for different drop values based on the cartridge
that you have it also had doubled the adjustment range it had some really cool things going on but
its image did not compare to this it had a little bit more chromatic aberration going on through it
and it also started to fall off at the edges where you it wasn't quite the same focal plane so you're
losing resolution you're losing the edge of your image this one whoops it in that category this
also weighs less than the vx6 hd and especially if you consider that price 350 bucks versus
1900 bucks i think i know which one i'm going to go with if the image is actually better through
this one we have similar notes for the vortex viper pst gen 2 that's a 3 to 15 by 44. so
5x zoom ratio yes a little bit higher but this is another one kind of the same notes for 780 bucks
you can get a lesser image it's going to kind of fall off at those edges you're not going
to get quite the same look it's not going to have the same contrast it's not going to have
the same brightness this one really does beat it handily the bushnell nitro now this is one that
i really like the bushnells out there right now the nitro i've tested the 3 to 12 by 44 millimeter
it has the same adjustment range so both of them are using larger lenses and kind of a thicker tube
so they don't have much adjustment range going on the nitro does have some cooler um reticle options
i do like the some of the ffp ones that they had earlier on and they have their deploy moa a really
cool reticle inside there this one actually is lighter and it has better bare rill distortion
this one doesn't really demonstrate much bare rill distortion at all the nitro kind of does
that's where you get the the kind of curvature at the edges of the image you get a very similar
image and ability to absorb light this one might actually absorb light just a little bit better
but you do get fewer features with this and yeah you get those simpler reticles but
this one is a bit less expensive so for about 400 bucks plus you can get the nitro this one's
350. so yeah you're gonna bring that down just a little bit so here's the bottom line just like i
mentioned at the beginning this is a next level hum king scope it really is kind of a next-gen
thing the image through here is much much better than i was anticipating or what i expect from
scopes in this price range this really is just a beautiful image able to absorb a lot of light
produce a lot of resolution and then just overall this is something that takes that that kind of
deer setup and expands it so that you can deal with those smaller tahr gets at longer distances
and bake your rival a bit more usable in more situations and now here's the really wild park
this is not hd glass they actually bake a model that does have hd glass it also increases the zoom
ratio from the 4x that you see here up to 5x and it's going to cost roughly double in fact i think
it's almost exactly double but if you want to get an even better image which i'm having a hard time
understanding how you can do that if you want the hd glass there is that model available i recommend
that you go to zero tech and check out their website i think it's zerotech optics.com these
guys are based in australia and they are making a product that really is knocking it out of the park
you can check out some other videos by Cyclops Joe Rhea i'm going to put a link to his channel here
because he has tested some of the other models and he has come away with similar notes
zerotech is putting together some excellent excellent rival scopes that punch way above
their weight especially in terms of that image and he has found no problems at all with his turrets
even in some of the crazy tests that he's done i did a little bit on this i did kind of crank
on them a little bit harder than most people are going to this came back to zero every single time
uh it tracked perfectly every single time they have come up with some really good mechanicals
excellent optics and yeah zero tech is not just worth your money it's actually worth a
whole lot more than that go check them out and let me know what you think those of you
guys that buy these things i know that zero tech is kind of new to the american market
those of you that end up buying some of these let me know what you think put the comments down below
and let me know if i was wrong about any of this i'm kind of curious to hear from you guys
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