It also is good enough that I was surprised to see the veins and structure in some hand-sized weed leaves 90 yards that I was shooting groups in and clipping stems off for fun a few weeks back. 20 holes in paper 110 yards (and my eyesight isn't great). In short, it can be used for repeatable ranging, I just have to remember to determine 'clear and in focus' by the beginning of clear, not the transition out of clear. I have yet to see or experience any issues with temps shifting how the Midas ranges by focus. With my Falcon there's none of that question of where it's clear, it either is, or isn't. My yardage marks for the Midas are at the point where the image first gets clear, not as it continues to be clear and then fades out.

It doesn't 'snap' in and out of focus as well as my Falcon X50. Very easy for me to decide if scope was 'clear' or not as I was ranging by focus.

For my eyes though, the scope gets nice and clear. When guys talk about scopes they always mention 'clarity.' Honestly all of our eyes are so different that there's no way to measure or even really describe that attribute, it's simply a subjective thing that's like trying to tell someone how a certain food tastes. I do think the 0.2 mil hash marks from 0-1 mil would be nice for a Hunter class (holdover) shooter, but have yet to try them out myself for that. This particular reticle option doesn't have all the view-cluttering Christmas tree stuff going on, but Athlon offers those as well. I'm an Open class shooter usually so I was dialing the turret. I wasn't sure I'd like the floating center dot reticle but it works pretty good to center on round kill zones. The shape keeps my 45, 50, and 55 yard marks plenty separated to differentiate those far distances (at least at 24x). I think Eric told me this particular wheel has a functional diameter of 8.5inches. I also like the idea of smaller profile for reducing chances of snagging the wheel on something and ripping the guts out of the scope. When rotated to keep the bulk of the wheel tucked in next to the gun, nothing sticks up higher than turret level, so it's easier to put in the soft case. The comma/nautilus shape is awesome for having a large functional diameter, with a small foot print. Scope wheel marks in the vid are when the scope is used I will eventually see how the marks work out when ranged at 16x and I'll try to remember to come back and post my thoughts on that. My example uses about 180 degrees from 10-55 yards. (man I hate hearing my own voice like this) It wasn't recorded with the intent to share publicly but it'll save a lot of typing so here it is, raw and uncut. He was curious about total scope wheel travel and how much of the range of travel 10-55 yards uses. I sent this short video to aimright a few weeks ago as he recently picked up a different Athlon for FT work and we were comparing various aspects.

Midas civil tree view toggle