Arken Non-LRF Zulus

I went to the range today to shoot. Nice day under 90 degrees! I have the Arken Zulus 5x20 Non-LRF on my Uragan .25 (tuned by @zx10wall). It has been tuned for JSB 33.95 MKIIs and that is what I am shooting. I zeroed the gun at 30 yards first. These photos are at 50 yards with a hold over at the first reticle below the dot. I had the zoom at 20. The grouping on the large target was 10 shots. I didn't film the shots because I forgot the d!!n micro-sd card! As you can see, the shot group is decent - realizing that an old codger is shooting the gun! I did some shooting at 100 yards and the groups were at 2.5 inches... not my best but adequate and impressive for a digital scope using hold overs.

The point being that this is a very usable scope if you can range it (day or night) and have the protocol you like and use holdovers. A rangefinder of some sort is still required (IMHO) to get the distance, and then apply the holdover/under for the profile you have loaded. I hope this addresses a lot of the LRF versus non-LRF questions. That being said, I do prefer the LRF models over the non, but since I have this one and use it all the time on the Uragan, I have gotten use to it and am very comfortable shooting it in various hunting situations!

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I went to the range today to shoot. Nice day under 90 degrees! I have the Arken Zulus 5x20 Non-LRF on my Uragan .25 (tuned by @zx10wall). It has been tuned for JSB 33.95 MKIIs and that is what I am shooting. I zeroed the gun at 30 yards first. These photos are at 50 yards with a hold over at the first reticle below the dot. I had the zoom at 20. The grouping on the large target was 10 shots. I didn't film the shots because I forgot the d!!n micro-sd card! As you can see, the shot group is decent - realizing that an old codger is shooting the gun! I did some shooting at 100 yards and the groups were at 2.5 inches... not my best but adequate and impressive for a digital scope using hold overs.

The point being that this is a very usable scope if you can range it (day or night) and have the protocol you like and use holdovers. A rangefinder of some sort is still required (IMHO) to get the distance, and then apply the holdover/under for the profile you have loaded. I hope this addresses a lot of the LRF versus non-LRF questions. That being said, I do prefer the LRF models over the non, but since I have this one and use it all the time on the Uragan, I have gotten use to it and am very comfortable shooting it in various hunting situations!

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When you said "and then apply the holdover/under for the profile you have loaded "
How did you do that?
I have an Urgan2 as well and the Zulus lrf and just getting in to how to use it.
My initial thought is to do the zero and use ranging dots and figure out the lrf later...lol
I'm still trying to figure out how to pull up other reticles.
 
@LONESTAR .25 I did it the old fashioned way... After I have my zero set for the pellet/slug profile, I set my targets at determined ranges and shoot them to figure out the hold - trial and error! With the Arken, you can set many profiles and then just adjust for the next 10 - 15 yards until you hit your next profile and then start again. That way you have the same incremental holdover for the base profile zero'd yardage. Once I have them I write them down for each pellet/slug setting. Pretty much a dope sheet for each of the profiles.
 
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