Favorite hunting scope?
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Athlon Helos BTR GEN2 2-12×42 AHMR2 FFP IR MIL . Compact, generous eye box, bright, great reticle for quick acquisition, perfect for pesting under 100yds. On my FX Wildcat MK3 .22 shooting JSB Hades @866 giving me 175 shots. My bird gun. Perfect.
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I have the same scope on my 380mm 22 cal crown that I have just tuned up and taking hunting tomorrow.
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My favorite hunting scope is going to be an outlier here.It's the ATN X-Sight 4K Pro 3-14x Day/Night Scope, with the ATN ABL Laser Rangefinder add-on and the ATN X-Trac Bluetooth Remote Control.
As an airgun hunter or pester, one of the biggest challenges to getting ammo on target, is knowing the distance to your quarry, and knowing where you must aim, or how you must adjust your scope so that your reticle aligns with the POI. The absolute main reason this is my favorite hunting scope system is because of the integrated Ballistic Calculator. It's like having the Strelok App built into your scope! The way this works, is you setup a profile in the scope for a particular ammo (let's use JSB Hades .30 cal as an example). Now look at these screenshots from the ATN Obsidean Phone App connected to my scope. Using the app is optional, and is not needed at all when swapping profiles.
You fill in the info for the ammo and that, along with the zero information for that ammo is saved into the scope. Now here is the where the magic happens: With the click of a button, the ABL rangefinder add-on measures the distance to your target, and moves your reticle to the calculated POI. No holdover or hold under required, no scope dope, nothing. Just range and shoot! It even has elevation and cant taken into consideration, so whether your target is up in a tree or down a ravine, you still just range, point and shoot.
You also see in the screenshots that I have different ammos listed, it's as easy as just selecting the new ammo profile, and now my scope is ready to shoot because even my zero data is stored! I even switch this scope between two different airguns with a QD mount, and the process is the same!
You may think that this process is hard to use in the field, as you got all this stuff going on taking away from the hunting experience. But I'm here to tell you, this system will improve your hunt in ways that before were unimaginable!
Using the ATN X-Trac remote control, I never have to break from my firing position to zoom in and out, range my target, or start recording video or take photos!
As you can see, I have my remote mounted to my air bottle, and it's a piece of cake to operate with my thumb while I'm still holding my gun! 
Some of the other features which make this an excellent hunting scope is the extended magnification range mode. This takes my 3-14x scope up to 37.6x, at the cost of reduced resolution. But where else you gonna find a 3-37.6 scope?
It all sounds too good to be true right? It's all just marketing hype, no way it does all of this! Well, feast your eyes on the video proof!
Here is a squirrel shot at 30 yards with JSB Hades and scope at like 7x.
https://youtu.be/YmJrGN4SsJo
And shortly after, take a squirrel at 73 yards with the FX Hybrid Slugs with the scope at around 17x.
https://youtu.be/X7hhD70_0SU
Or really amp up the magnification, and shoot at the range at 37.6X with Hybrid Slugs at 53 yards!
https://youtu.be/kmkMca0RRpM
For nighttime hunting, this switches to the ATN THOR 4 thermal scope with the same accessories. Nothing can hide from thermal, and I mean nothing!
Why I consider my choices outliers is these are my favorite scopes for hunting, but they have mediocre to poor image quality compared to the cheapest UTG or $100 Amazon scope. But the reduced image quality is a small price to pay for such a flexible and capable system!
As an airgun hunter or pester, one of the biggest challenges to getting ammo on target, is knowing the distance to your quarry, and knowing where you must aim, or how you must adjust your scope so that your reticle aligns with the POI. The absolute main reason this is my favorite hunting scope system is because of the integrated Ballistic Calculator. It's like having the Strelok App built into your scope! The way this works, is you setup a profile in the scope for a particular ammo (let's use JSB Hades .30 cal as an example). Now look at these screenshots from the ATN Obsidean Phone App connected to my scope. Using the app is optional, and is not needed at all when swapping profiles.
You fill in the info for the ammo and that, along with the zero information for that ammo is saved into the scope. Now here is the where the magic happens: With the click of a button, the ABL rangefinder add-on measures the distance to your target, and moves your reticle to the calculated POI. No holdover or hold under required, no scope dope, nothing. Just range and shoot! It even has elevation and cant taken into consideration, so whether your target is up in a tree or down a ravine, you still just range, point and shoot.
You also see in the screenshots that I have different ammos listed, it's as easy as just selecting the new ammo profile, and now my scope is ready to shoot because even my zero data is stored! I even switch this scope between two different airguns with a QD mount, and the process is the same!
You may think that this process is hard to use in the field, as you got all this stuff going on taking away from the hunting experience. But I'm here to tell you, this system will improve your hunt in ways that before were unimaginable!
Using the ATN X-Trac remote control, I never have to break from my firing position to zoom in and out, range my target, or start recording video or take photos!
Some of the other features which make this an excellent hunting scope is the extended magnification range mode. This takes my 3-14x scope up to 37.6x, at the cost of reduced resolution. But where else you gonna find a 3-37.6 scope?
It all sounds too good to be true right? It's all just marketing hype, no way it does all of this! Well, feast your eyes on the video proof!
Here is a squirrel shot at 30 yards with JSB Hades and scope at like 7x.
https://youtu.be/YmJrGN4SsJo
And shortly after, take a squirrel at 73 yards with the FX Hybrid Slugs with the scope at around 17x.
https://youtu.be/X7hhD70_0SU
Or really amp up the magnification, and shoot at the range at 37.6X with Hybrid Slugs at 53 yards!
https://youtu.be/kmkMca0RRpM
For nighttime hunting, this switches to the ATN THOR 4 thermal scope with the same accessories. Nothing can hide from thermal, and I mean nothing!
Why I consider my choices outliers is these are my favorite scopes for hunting, but they have mediocre to poor image quality compared to the cheapest UTG or $100 Amazon scope. But the reduced image quality is a small price to pay for such a flexible and capable system!
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Hello I like a good quality red dot sight (Eotech, Aimpoint or Burris ) with night vision compatibility. That way I can run it by itself when close in pesting or throw a 3x magnifier when I need a little distance or throw on a PVS14 for night vision work. Eric
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Most of my hunting is at night, so I’m currently partial to the Trijicon ReapIR 35mm. It’s been a phenomenal thermal optic!
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I think it depends on what I am hunting, and with what. For deer, I like a fixed power scope. Just easier.
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Athlon Helos BTR GEN2 2-12×42 AHMR2 FFP IR MIL . Compact, generous eye box, bright, great reticle for quick acquisition, perfect for pesting under 100yds. On my FX Wildcat MK3 .22 shooting JSB Hades @866 giving me 175 shots. My bird gun. Perfect.
Patrick
2L8. Am I reading this manual correctly?. Does the reticle subtensions correspond with the numbers. From what I am reading the lines in the reticle do not match the actual MOA for example line 5 would actually be 9.5 MOA.
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