Aztec Emerald… G1 and Athlon Helos G1

The following personal conclusions were through many, many pests downed afield and at dairies. Rats, starlings, sparrows and pigeons, woodchucks, etc. Shots from 20 to 104 yards. Tons of plinking and some target shooting. The Aztec scope came first and served well atop my Bantam Sniper HR, with kills on pigeons out to 104 yards regularly. Many 40-50 yard rats kills and many, many starlings down. Daylight bright green/red IR, and an air gun practical Christmas tree. For no particular reason I purchased the Helos. It serve very well atop my Bantam Sniper HR, but the windage tree was impractical in use at my typical airgunning distances as it starts at 5 MOA. And repeats at 5 MOA intervals. So on sub 60 yard shots, or in between yardages it was cumbersome to deploy on pests. I took the Helos off my Pathfinder today and put the Aztec on. What a difference, an airgun practical Christmas tree with windage dots at 2, 4, 6, and 8 MOA. I was getting repeated, consistent, first round hits in left and right winds on my black walnut targets. From 40 to 64 yards, love that Christmas tree, unobtrusive, but there if you need it. I even nailed my little saline bottle target at 102 yards, first shot, 20 MOA of holdover. The Christmas tree allows me shots out to 70 yards at 8 MOA on the tree, the last point for windage references on the DYND-1 reticle. Sending CPHPs at 846 FPS Avg.

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I have 2 Aztec Emerald gen 2 scopes. All the write ups I read are about gen 1 scopes. AOA sells them but their literature is about the gen 1 scope. Gen 2 scopes have the large windage and elevation knob and a zero stop. They focus down to less than 10 yards and are very clear. At least mine are. Anybody else got the gen 2? Didn't mean to steal the post.
 
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I have 2 Aztec Emerald gen 2 scopes. All the write ups I read are about gen 1 scopes. AOA sells them but their literature is about the gen 1 scope. Gen 2 scopes have the large windage and elevation knob and a zero stop. They focus down to less than 10 yards and are very clear. At least mine are. Anybody else got the gen 2? Didn't mean to steal the post.
The G2 is so much better its crazy. Seems improved in most ways. The G1 I had for a while had the worst turrets I've experienced. I've had some sub $100 scopes with better turrets.

The reticle though was never for me.
 
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