Pulled the trigger on a cronus

Yep it has superior IQ than the HG2's, as well as everything else, but it doesn't focus down to 10Y so parallaxes at 25Y. My favorite features are daylight bright illumination, the APRS6 reticle, and really good turrets.

I have 2 of them. 1 is on my 30 cal ghost I compete with. (Used it yesterday and I was teamed up with Steve) The other is on a hunting rifle. Great scope for sure.

Tony P.

I have a Cronus also, and think it’s a great scope. But IF you don’t need higher magnification, the Ares ETR 3-18x is every bit as clear as the Cronus, turrets excellent, reticle the same. At half the price. I have one of the 3-18x Ares ETR Mil and for PRS or NRL-22 or even EFT, it’s truly ar great scope at a great price.

Pretty hard to beat the Athlon line of scopes. Here we do pay a bit of a premium on them but the lifetime warranty makes it less painful. Currently have an Ares ETR 4.5 -30x 56 on a PRS 22lr and it’s every bit as good as the near same spec Cronus my friend is using. I’m currently in the market for something to top a Beeman R9 , Athlon is my first choice.

These are older scope designs, l think 5 years old now, so I'm interested in how improved a G3 Cronus would be??~! I wonder if this will happen this year or next?

Same here, I can't tell much difference between the ETR line and the Cronus line. Maybe a hair better turrets on the Cronus G2 but that's being picky.

The Ares ETR 4.5-30x is comparable glass wise to the Cronus. What I don’t like is the reticle (same layout) is thicker in the ETR than the Cronus. For the Ares ETR 3-18x, the reticle is the same thickness ((thinness) as the Cronus. And the glass is good enough on the 3-18x Ares ETR that I don’t miss higher magnification.

"Pulled the trigger".
That's cute !

Mike

Centercut said:

The Ares ETR 4.5-30x is comparable glass wise to the Cronus. What I don’t like is the reticle (same layout) is thicker in the ETR than the Cronus. For the Ares ETR 3-18x, the reticle is the same thickness ((thinness) as the Cronus. And the glass is good enough on the 3-18x Ares ETR that I don’t miss higher magnification.

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I haven't been keeping track of all the reticle thicknesses in all the Athlon lines but I like the thicker reticles more for the mid to lower power scopes. I think it's .05 mil for the Helos G2 6-24(must be for the ETR 4.5-30 too??) and the new Ares BTR G3 2.5-15 is .06 mil, then the HG2 2-12 is much thicker.

The reticle in the ETR 15-60 for me is almost too thin but I can turn the illume on for dimly lit shots.

I prefer the CG2 APRS6 IIRC .04 mil reticle for long range steel.

Another friend local to me likes his ETR 3-18 the most of his mid priced scopes.

But it's good we have a variety to choose what works best for each person or preference.

The PD's are up so this morning I shot some with my Ares BTR G3 2.5-15x50 on 2.5x and I could still see the reticle hashes which was the goal and info I needed to test. 7x seemed about right for the FOV and reticle size with all 8 of them I hit from 20Y to 80Y.