Holy Grail of Airgun Scopes

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Good for you BigTinBoat! I have the Athlon Argos 6-24x50 FFP and am absolutely thrilled with it...but I am seriously thinking of buying one of the Athlon Talos 4-14x44 FFP scopes also! I'm thinking that for a lot of hunting situations like squirrel hunting or shooting pigeons and such, that the 4-14x44 is more than enough scope for the job. As a youth I hunted squirrels with my Daddy's Marlin Lever Action .22LR that had a Weaver fixed 4x scope on it, and it was more than enough scope!

I haven't held a Talos in my hands to chuck one out yet, but I want to real bad. I would have to hide it from my wife so I don't have to hear "Another scope?" and see that look of condemnation on her face... :( And the answer to your unspoken question is yes, I am a coward when it comes to facing my little wife with yet another purchase related to my airguns...she heard me talking to a friend on the phone last night about buying one of the new Priest Air Rifles in .177 caliber, and putting a 4-14 Talos on it, and she had a fit when I came to bed. Whew! 

Best regards and Happy Labor Day, Chuck

 
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The Argos reticle is quite thin even at high mag and distances. This is my first attempt at using my EX-ZR200 setup so excuse the out of focus photos shot through my balcony window glass. The distance is 110 yards and supposed to be on manual focus, the Argos was at 34x (8-34x BTR Mil dot). Note that at max mag only 5.5 mil dot is visible on the sight picture which works for most pellets but may be an issue with pellets that drop below 20 inches at 100 yards if you had your rifle zeroed at 50 yards.

The good thing about FFP scopes that it's easy to estimate distance (not that you need it with the parallax dial) because the mil dots are always the same in relation to the target's size throughout the magnification range at a given distance....i.e. the target can shrink or grow the mild dots will always be the same.

So in this case the target is a 6 inch tall license plate from about 110 yards measuring 1.5 mil dots. For the Argos 1 mil dot is 3.6 inches at 100 yards. So at 110 yards one mil dot is 3.96 inches x 1.5 mil dots = 5.94 inches.





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Thanks for the info. I didn't see the less expensive FFP that Argos offers before. The option to go smaller but retain the FFP solves the issue of carrying more than you need for the job. 

Sometimes when I see people put a Hawk Sidewinder 30 on a 22 cal bullpup for backyard plinking at 50 yards, it kinda has the look of putting wings from a 747 on a Chrysler. It just looks silly.

4-14 x 44 is more than enough for anything you could hunt with a small bore air gun. Then again, the price is not that different for the higher power model so it might be tempting to get more juice and use it on a bench gun in case I decide to have a go at FT.

I like the pic on high magnification. I was kinda expecting that to be good though. I wouldn't mind seeing a pic taken on it's lowest usable power setting if you have time. That's the one I had questions on. I'd like to see how the reticle looks at 6x at 15-20 yards which is apparently where the potential issue might be.

To be honest the thing I am most excited about from the review is the glass being clear across it's range of magnification. It's the quality of the glass that separates good scopes from cheaper ones which seem to have the same specs on paper. Most SFP scopes I have used will get blurry at higher power and detail suffers at distance. Being able to see clearly at distance and in lower light is more important than any other feature to me. If I can get it without spending a fortune, the rest is just a bonus. 

I think I'm going to try one. Maybe a man should have at least one FFP in his collection. 


 
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Well zebra, I am very happy to hear that you are going to try one out for yourself. And may I then suggest that you purchase it from MidwayUSA, because they have a 60 day, no questions asked, 100% satisfaction guarantee. So that if for any reason at all you are not happy with your new Athlon scope, you may return it for a full refund! This is why I say you have everything to gain, and absolutely nothing to lose. Or if you don't like the Athlon Talos 4-14x44 FFP send it back to Midway and exchange it for a 6-24x50 FFP like mine...and if you don't like that one either just return it for a full refund!

I have been through over a dozen scopes in the last 3 years for my air rifles and was never 100% satisfied with any of them until I got my Athlon Argos 6-24x50 FFP. And if you decide to put a side wheel on it read my previous posts above about the UTG 3" & 4" side wheels from Pyramyd Air. You know zebra, even the Leupold and the Zeiss scopes I tried out over the last few years did not even come close to this Athlon of mine. I still can't believe it...it is like someone accidently put a $1600.00 FFP scope in the box and sent it to me...I really thought maybe they put the wrong scope in the box! :)

Kind regards, Chuck
 
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Athlon Scopes have Life Time Warranty from the company.

Got dark outside so was only able to do an indoor photo at around 10 yards. The lowest power is 8x on the Argos I have. Could not figure out how to focus both the reticle and the target at the same time :) Need to check out Ted's older video where he explains how to set up your Casio camera to do that.



 
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