Cronus is Arthlon Optics top tier product line and as such, command top-tier pricing. Their new Cronus 10×50 laser range finder binoculars have a street price around $1000. At that price range, I wouldn’t normally have reason to come across one but thankfully Athlon sent me a pair to test and evaluate.
These binoculars feature ED UHD glass which reduce or eliminate chromatic aberration and deliver bright, sharp, detailed images at 10x. I own a 25x Celestron Skymasters which I was thought was a pretty darn good pair of binoculars. But when compared to the image quality to the Cronus…it’s like being impressed with the image of a 720p 50″ flatscreen TV and then seeing a 80″ 4K TV; it will ruin you for anything less.
The image is bright, detailed, and sharp. At 50y I was able to make it resolution lines down to Element 4 in Group -1. on the USAF 1951 optical resolution chart. Its field of view is 338ft @ 1000y, which is average to middling in high end binoculars. For comparison, my Skymaster only has a field of view of 141ft.
The Cronus has a greenish plastic/rubberized, knurled body for added grip in cold or wet conditions. It features retained front lens caps with the Athlon logo and integrated telescoping eye-cups. The buttery smooth, focus knob is oversized to provide finer adjustments.
Its internal laser rang finder is powered by a CR2 battery housed in the pivot point between the scope tubes. Unfortunately the battery cap is located where I would normally expect to find the tripod adapter threads. Alas, if you want to attach this 2.3lb optic to a stable tripod, you’ll have to use a strap or clamp style mount.
The laser range finder is controlled by two buttons molded onto the top of the each half of the binocular. The digital display is visible through the right binocular eyepiece and appears similar to golf range finders with angle detection and even includes a golf flag mode! But both ocular lenses must be uncapped in order for the laser to beam and detect targets.
Athlon states that the Cronus has a maximum detection range of 2000y on a reflective object and 800y on deer. These numbers are under controlled and ideal testing conditions. In my “real world” testing on a city hillside, the maximum distance I was able to bounce off was a window on a house 1414y away. On a non-reflective rock, I was able to range out to 680y. While short of its maximum, these numbers are sill impressive for everyday use.
While the Crono’s performance is impressive, the reality of its price is still daunting. The typical hunter or even long range shooter would be able to get away with a cheap 1000y golf laser range finder and a 60mm spotting scope and be able to accomplish the same goals. But for those the means and budget to purchase a Cronus, the simpler one piece solution is worth the price.
Magnification:10 x Objective Lens: 50 mm Eye Relief: 19.3 mm Field of View: 338 ft @ 1000 y Weight: 38oz Length: 7 in Close Focus: 6.6 ft Exit Pupil: 5 mm Water Proof: IPX-7 Glass: UHD, ED Coating: Fully Multi-Coated Range Finder: Laser Max Range: 2000 y Range Deer: 800 y Warranty: Lifetime
Zenni eyewear was one of the first online prescription eyeglass companies I purchased from just before the “Pandemic”. I was pleased with their products in the past, so when I had had a terrible experience with Goggles4U, I ordered my next pair from Zenni.
My eyesight is close enough to 20/20 that I’ve passed DMV tests but I do notice difficulty reading names on roadsigns at night. Since my 20’s I’ve worn a pair of prescription sun glasses when driving and since my 50’s I’ve switched to bifocals to read the GPS maps on my dashboard/phone.
I ordered a prescription bi-focal in an aviator style frame for use as night time driving glasses. These were great for the first 6-7 months. I slowly noticed that at night the street lights and oncoming headlamps got progressively more glaring. On a night time drive, I really had problems with this starburst effect wearing my glasses to the point that I had to take them off and squint the rest of the way home.
At first I thought my eyesight may have gotten worse. But when I wore an older pair of prescription sunglasses, the starburst glare wan’t present at night. I compared it with some other older pairs of bifocals I owned with the same result: there was something wrong with my “new” Zenni bifocals.
The glasses were over 6 months old and well past the 30-day money-back-warranty. But my older Zenni glasses didn’t experience such a decay in performance, which made me think there may be something wrong how the lenses were manufactured (China much?) I went to Zenni to find out.
I went to the Zenni.com and asked on their Customer Service, what could be happening to my glasses? Their Customer Service Rep immediately emailed me and recommended I try gently cleaning them with warm water and mild dishwashing detergent. I did that but this is the result; no improvement. I sent them these photos to explain the situation.
Then Zenni did something I didn’t expect them to. They apologized for the inconvenience and offered to send me the exact same glasses to replace these ones. The contrast between Zenni and Goggles4U’s customer service attitude was dumbfounding.
I agreed and waited for the glasses. I set up a pinpoint light source to mimic a night time headlamp and tested the new glasses against my old. And the new ones were crystal clear.
I asked the Zenni Rep what could have caused the smearing of light (chromatic bberration) and she said that based on the photos I sent, their technicians believe the glasses were undergoing “Crazing”. This is a degradation of the lens coatings due to excessive heat or chemical reaction.
I don’t know what could be causing the crazing. I live in San Francisco where a “heat wave” is anything above 75ºF so I doubt excessive heat. Moreover, I’ve always kept my driving glasses in my car, but my older prescription glasses never experienced crazing? Perhaps it was the new “carbon microfiber” cleaning tools I’m using now? So far I’ve not found any blogs or posts relating to damage caused by these cleaning tools.
In the end I’m glad this video ended well. I got a brand new pair of glasses from a company I liked before the experience, and absolutely gush about afterwards. I’m not sponsored by Zenni but I sure wish I was.
A few years ago, I bought an OLIGHT PL-2 Valkyrie because it offered the best value in terms of price to lumen output. I liked the physical design of the Valkyrie and the PL-2 was one of the few +600 lumen lights priced under $150. When OLIGHT contacted me to review their soon to be released PL-Turbo Valkyrie I was eager to see how this new light compared to mine.
The PL-Turbo is an improvement on the Turbo Valkyrie offering a bump up from 250 lumens to a more blinding 800 lumens in the PL-Turbo, while sacrificing only a slightly shorter yet still impressive 515m throw. The other noticeable changes is a screw mount, an adjustable position mounting system, and surprisingly: a 60% drop in retail price.
Compared to my 1200 lumen PL-2, the PL-Tubo is 1/4″ longer and has a more matte black coated surface. Both are powered by a pair of C123A or rechargeable RCR123A batteries. Both share identical control button/panels which are some of the best in the category.
In my lumen testing I discovered that the PL-2 output 50% more than its specified 800 lumens. Many budget brand and knock-off weaponlights outrageously inflate their lumen numbers. It is laudable in that OLIGHT understated the PL-Turbo’s performance numbers.
The PL-Turbo retains the Turbo’s tight beam pattern; a product of its laser powered LEP illumination. Inside the narrow beam is an extremely bright and small hot spot. At 10ft, it appears as a 1ft wide circle that can function as an aim point. While the beam is narrower than OLIGHT’s other Valkerie or Baldr lights but its intensity offers sufficient bounce light to illuminate a residential room.
I don’t claim that any OLIGHT is as durable or as reliable as military tested weapon lights from US built brands. But this OLIGHT is more than sufficient to meet my average-civilian needs. With all of the PL-Turbo’s improvements to the older Valkyrie Turbo and at a lower price, its a no-brainer that the PL-Turbo is a good value.
At Shot Show this year, Athlon showed me their new Heras line of “cross-over” scopes. These scopes were designed to appeal to hunters and target shooters. The 10 yrds minimum parallax piqued my interest (for airgun matches and dispatching the occasional field rat in my backyard this distance comes in handy). A few months later, they finally released the Heras and they offered to send me one to test and evaluate. Seeing as they market this scope to hunters, I requested the MOA version but they also make it in MIL.
I didn’t fully appreciate the differences between this and my Midas Tac until I got it in my hands and took it to the range. The glass isn’t as good as the Midas Tac (not surprising given the Hera’s 25% lower price point). I appreciate that Athlon listened to complaints and added illumination that the Midas Tac is missing. But the only thing lit is the center dot, which isn’t daylight bright at max. Moreover the dot is too small to even see at low magnfication, so the the illumination feature is a wasted effort.
The Heras’ turret design differs from Athlon’s other scope line with much more data information, larger footprint, and aggressive knurling. It’s a marked improvement over the Midas and Helos in design and ergonomics. The elevation has a respectable if unremarkable 70 MOA of elevation adjustment.
The windage is lockable (pull up to unlock) which is a nod to hunters who prefer to use subtension for cross-wind compensation. Both turrets are resettable for zero. The elevation turret features Athlon’s easy-to-use and solid zero-stop, for competition shooters.
The illumination dial has an OFF between the 6 levels of brightness. Unfortunately in the MOA SFP version of this scope, only the tiny central dot (0.3 MOA) is illuminated; which is not daylilght bright and too small to use as a target dot at low magnfication. The MIL SFP version of this scope has the APRS8 reticle which illuminates the center cross which offers a more visible illuminated reference. The FFP version of the HERAS has APRS9 reticle which illuminates the entire Christmas tree.
One feature I appreciate in the HERAS is its usability at short range. The paralax focus goes down to 10 yrds., which is a boon for NRL22 and airgun shooters. When doing rodent control on your property, its rare to find varmints beyond 10 yrds.
I found the optics to be on par with Helos, which it likely shares its glass as well as price tier in Athlon’s lineup. The image was sharp with a modest amount of chromatic fringing at maximum magnification which hampers its clarity and detail at higher magnifications. I was still able to make out .22 cal size holes on plain paper at 100 yrds. Overall the scope seems to check all the boxes for both hunters and long range shooters.
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When Feyachi offered to send me their newest 9mm in-bore laser bore sighter I wasn’t all that interested. Until I saw it’s newest feature, an off switch. It’s such a simple yet vital feature missing in this category until now.
Prior to this new version, the only way to turn on or off an in-bore laser bore sighter was to remove the battery. The hassle of this often lead to simply leaving the unit on while adjusting sights or reticles. Thus, leading to extra drain on the already tiny and anemic battery life from the tiny hearing-aid button batteries used to power the units.
The package comes with 3 battery packs. Each pack is a stacked set of L41 button batteries held together by tape. The packs slid easily into the laser and with a press of the button the unit was on.
The addition of a simple button switch in the approximate position of a primer in a cartridge turns the laser unit on. The position can be a bit awkward to get your finger inside the ejector port. But with a practice, pen, or other probe, you can reach the button.
Feyachi currently only has the 9mm and a .223/5.56mm version of this laser. It seems like a no-brainer to extend this feature to all of their bore sighters.
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“Groundbreaking” and “Revolutionary” are words that usually indicate marketing hype when used to describe a scope. But in the case of the Konuspro EL-30 6-24×50, these superlatives are arguably justified. For the EL-30 is one of the first commercially available high-power scopes with an LCD reticle, which can be changed at the press of a button.
I first got a chance to see the 4-16×44 EL-30 at the Konus booth in Shot Show earlier this year. Konus sent me their new 6-24×50 model which I beg testing. The first sample sent had a sticky elevation turret. This did not really effect he function of the scope but when I contacted them about it, they didn’t hesitate to send a replacement.
The scope has some unusual features. It’s longer than other 6-24×50 scopes due to the larger than usual reticle housing box forward of the turrets. This enlarged housing also contains the battery compartment for a CR2 cell and the electronics for the LCD reticle.
There is a large flat slab face on the left side of the turret box where there would usually be a paralax/illuminator knob. I speculate that the reticle electronics required the repositioning of those controls. The scope sports a parallax focus ring in front of the magnification power ring next to the eyepiece. Likewise, the illuminator and reticle controls are housed on the top of the eyepiece.
The scope offers 10 different styles of reticle which can be changed with a small MODE button. The reticles range from traditional hunting duplex crosshairs, to complex Christmas Tree holdovers, and simple holo-sight style rings. Unfortunately the LCD doesn’t reflect much of the red illumination light even at its brightest setting.
The turrets are pop to lock with loud audible clicks; though rather soft tactile feedback. The turrets have a fine 1/8 MOA per click adjustment with a 56 MOA of adjustment range. NRL and ELR shooters will find the scope frustrating. The turrets are normal sized for a hunting scope but too small for competition; I found my thumb constantly banging up into the enlarged reticle box when manipulating the elevation turret.
In testing I found the scope to have a very small and unforgiving Eye Box (exit pupil). Unusually, the edge of EL-30’s Eye Box turns grayish-white instead of darkening into black like most scopes. I wonder if the unusually small eye box and light color edge is a side-effect of the LCD reticle?
I could make out USAF resolution lines down to Element 2 in Group -1 but overall sharpness is middling with soft outer edges, a brownish tint, and lacking in clear enough detail to clearly make out .22 cal holes on paper at 100 yrds. The street price of this scope is around $750 (probably owing to the extra engineering and electronics in the LCD reticle). But the overall image quality was more in line with sub $500 glass.
For some $750 is still a fair price to get the versatility of a changeable reticle (and bragging rights of owning new tech). You can go from a fine long range target reticle to a traditional hunting duplex or back again in heartbeat. Instead of buying, mounting, and zeroing out two different scopes on the same rifle, you can switch the reticle at the press of a button.
The scopes overall design seems better suited for the hunter who occasionally dabbles in target shooting rather than the other way around. Konus would have to radically change the external design of this scope to appeal to tactical or competition shooters. But I applaud the attempt. The EL-30 has its flaws but it is a decent 1st Generation scope using new LCD technology. This could become the norm; like LCD faces became the norm in watches and clocks.
Earlier this year I was shown Monstrum’s newest LPVO scope, the Banshee. This new line would be slightly lower priced than their new Spectre. And more importantly, would feature a 1-10x model but due to manufacturing delays, Monstrum was unable to bring a 1-10x prototype to Shot Show. Months later, I was excited to receive a sample of the new Banshee 1-10×24 LPVO from Monstrum.
The Banshee shares broad physical similarities to the Spectre. Both have 30mm tubes and the same X1 reticle. Unlike the Spectre, the Banshee has capped turrets and the highest magnification of Monstrum’s LPVOs of 10x. As a minor note, on the Banshee the Monstrum logo is engraved into the eyepiece section of the scope, possibly a new standard in Monstrum’s industrial design.
At the range, I was able to quickly able to identify and engage targets at 50 yrds and 100 yrds. However, the illumination of my particular sample scope was a bit weak. Testing in the noon day sun, I could barely see a red tint at its highest level 5 setting. Green was slightly better. But to be fair, in bright daylight the X1 reticle is thick enough to line up my target without the need for illumination and in low light or CQB, the illumination levels would be adequate.
Overall I found the glass to be as good as the Spectre. I couldn’t quite compare apples to apples because of the higher 10x magnification of the Banshee. With both, I was pleasantly surprised at its sharpness and brightness for a price tier of under $250.
I had to re-edit and re-upload this video because of goof on my part. I’ve been mispronouncing the name of the brand. It’s not EZshot, it’s EZshoot.
EZshot is a brand best known for budget firearms accessories like barrel snakes, red dots, and weapon lights and not always in a good way. It came as a bit of a surprise that they reached out to me with an 1-6x LPVO. I didn’t have high hopes as to optical qualities and build quality but I was delightfully surprised.
The scope came in completely blank black box which was not a good start. Like Feyachi and MidTen, most of EZshots product are generic and often lack any branding on the product itself. I assume they buy their products from the same factories and just market them under their brand name.
Inside, I found an LPVO that we pretty well put together. The elevation and windage turrets are capped. The turrets underneath, looked a bit cheap but had nice loud clicks. Overall the scope looked good; not $500 scope quality but more than its $109 price on Amazon.
At the range, I found the image at 6x to be decent. Not amazing but not bad. It had a fair bit of chromatic aberration, edge distortion, and lacked some resolution and brightness. But the image was sharp enough to confidently engage man sized targets from 50-100 yards.
It’s eye relief and exit pupil were average for a budget LPVO. There are better scopes but almost none it’s price tier. I had no trouble brining it up to my eye and quickly acquired my target. I found it’s reticle to be better than I expected, though its outer cross hairs should have been thinner.
Without a doubt, there are better and more durable LPVOs. But for the price, this is great optic for a range baby.
