ETA - hey all, I posted photo's in my review of the ETR down in this thread a ways, go see em please!
I recently sold my two Athlon Midas TAC's, a 4-16 and a 6-24, so I ordered a bronze ETR to try out. Most of the reason is I wanted more magnification, the other motivation was this is supposed to be the highest quality scope on the market at it's price point. Also after I sell my S&B 3-20, I'm going to put this scope on a 6.5 Saum long range rifle, but for now I'm going to mount it on my 30 cal American Air Arms EVOL to do my review.
I thought I'd give a list of other Athlon scopes I've tried before. Of course I think only the Cronus, Ares, and TAC, could be used for comparison since they are closer in quality to the ETR in the Athlon line up so it'll be interesting for me to know how the ETR stacks up to those.
So here they are starting with Athlon brand scopes; 'Two Cronus 4.5-29x56's, one a pre BTR version,' 'five Athlon Ares BTR's, three Gen1 4.5-27x50's, also Gen2 version, and a Gen1 2.5-15x50,' ' three Midas TAC's', 'many Athlon Argos BTR 6-24x50's, all Gen1' 'and many Athlon Talos 4-14x44's'.
You might have guessed by now that I'm an Athlon Optics fanboy, and that I'm affiliated with Co, that'd be true, BUT!!! I'm not employed by them. I guess I could be called an industry insider, or a friend of the owner of the Co. Be that as it may I'm honest about what I have to say about any scope I review, and this means not all I have to say about Athlon products, or certain aspects about each line, or even individual scopes as a unit, are positive, as you will see later in my review. You will get the truth, or at least what I think it is.
Other brands I've owned/own include S&B, USO, IOR, March, Nightforce, Vortex, Bushnell, B&L, Burris, Leupold, SWFA, Nikko, Falcon, Centerpoint, etc - many, I can't even think of them all. I've been into rifles and scopes for 45 years so.....
I have a bunch of friends with other brands that I've had the opportunity to play with which include Premier, Tangent Theta, Hensoldt, Zeiss, and Zero Compromise Optics. These are basically most of the best scopes money can buy.
Unfortunately since I'm going off memory on some of these optics, ones I don't own anymore, and the ones I've only used briefly, I can only relay my impressions about them. Like those aspects that remain in my memory as far as either likes or dislikes, so basically that's all I can use in a "sort of a" comparison.
Anyway I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning but in this case it's the brown UPS van!
I'll put some pics up in a week or so.
I recently sold my two Athlon Midas TAC's, a 4-16 and a 6-24, so I ordered a bronze ETR to try out. Most of the reason is I wanted more magnification, the other motivation was this is supposed to be the highest quality scope on the market at it's price point. Also after I sell my S&B 3-20, I'm going to put this scope on a 6.5 Saum long range rifle, but for now I'm going to mount it on my 30 cal American Air Arms EVOL to do my review.
I thought I'd give a list of other Athlon scopes I've tried before. Of course I think only the Cronus, Ares, and TAC, could be used for comparison since they are closer in quality to the ETR in the Athlon line up so it'll be interesting for me to know how the ETR stacks up to those.
So here they are starting with Athlon brand scopes; 'Two Cronus 4.5-29x56's, one a pre BTR version,' 'five Athlon Ares BTR's, three Gen1 4.5-27x50's, also Gen2 version, and a Gen1 2.5-15x50,' ' three Midas TAC's', 'many Athlon Argos BTR 6-24x50's, all Gen1' 'and many Athlon Talos 4-14x44's'.
You might have guessed by now that I'm an Athlon Optics fanboy, and that I'm affiliated with Co, that'd be true, BUT!!! I'm not employed by them. I guess I could be called an industry insider, or a friend of the owner of the Co. Be that as it may I'm honest about what I have to say about any scope I review, and this means not all I have to say about Athlon products, or certain aspects about each line, or even individual scopes as a unit, are positive, as you will see later in my review. You will get the truth, or at least what I think it is.
Other brands I've owned/own include S&B, USO, IOR, March, Nightforce, Vortex, Bushnell, B&L, Burris, Leupold, SWFA, Nikko, Falcon, Centerpoint, etc - many, I can't even think of them all. I've been into rifles and scopes for 45 years so.....
I have a bunch of friends with other brands that I've had the opportunity to play with which include Premier, Tangent Theta, Hensoldt, Zeiss, and Zero Compromise Optics. These are basically most of the best scopes money can buy.
Unfortunately since I'm going off memory on some of these optics, ones I don't own anymore, and the ones I've only used briefly, I can only relay my impressions about them. Like those aspects that remain in my memory as far as either likes or dislikes, so basically that's all I can use in a "sort of a" comparison.
Anyway I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning but in this case it's the brown UPS van!
I'll put some pics up in a week or so.
. 
