I just saw this on my YouTube feed but it appears to be a day old. I'm surprised that there's no introduction on this new optic here. Maybe the reps are too busy at Shot Show. Anyone else have info on this?
Jumped in here to @ you that this looked like the IR, saw your postIt is supposedly the same scope that Immersive Optics has been developing. Presumably licensed by Element. For more info on that scope see two videos below. Scroll to 11:40 on the first.
Jumped in here to @ you that this looked like the IR, saw your post
Interesting, looks like relabeling of immersive electronic scope. Only bad thing is I hate the short eye relief, not from lack of trying either.
In the first video above he mentions the eye relief being around 35 to 40mm. But in the second video he says it will be even longer than the (then current) 5x30 which was/is 45mm. In both videos he says suitable for centerfire. But to your point, I don't believe I would want much less eye relief than the 5x30 I got to demo.
I saw it yesterday and figured that the Element guys bought the rights to the prismatic scope design, along with other digital features from another scope manufacturer and married them. It s brilliant really. The price tag will dictate whether they can bring it to.a brad market successfully. Also, a few months ago I did reach out to the folks at Immersive about a longer eye relief scope in a better magnifiction range. They did say that it was on the way. So it looks like this will be of longer eye relief.
I would not want to shoot even mild center fire with only 45mm/1.77 inch eye relief! I do not aspire to be a coon or panda bear! For airgun it’s OK, very uncomfortable and very hard to get eye position correct even with adjustable cheek piece. I tried an immersive scope and other short eye relief scopes but couldn’t do it. A lot of people really like them though.
In both videos they mention 600 to 800 British Pounds. But that was a while ago & when still planned to be under the Immersive name.whats the price?
Which model did you try? I shot very briefly with the 5x30 but only indoors at close range. I regret not taking it out in the woods and at least following some squirrel with it. I don't recall the 45mm eye relief being an issue from a shooting comfort standpoint but did notice I couldn't use it with both eyes open.
I think it would have been a good fit for my P-rod but on a Leshiy Classic it just had to hang way to far over the back to be practical.
I'd still like to look through one of the 10x of 14x models but my brief experience with the 5x30 suggests I wouldn't like them. 45mm is close enough.