Had my ep-8 for a while. I real;ly like it, Still no reticle subtensions? geez louise.
With no reticle subtensions I thought if I would use the KL reticle to see how it does. Im 5-11 200lb. I cut some cardboard the size of my torso and placed them at 4 5 and 600 yards. the reticle workesd quite well. Matchedup perfectly. I put one at 550 and it was in between 5 and 6, The ranging works well!
Im shooting 77s out of a 16" . The so called manual only has one subtension. value. I thought my pills might shoot a bit flatter so i used a 100 zero. After that i zeroed for elevation at 600 dot. I was a bit optimistic zeroing at 600 gave me a first dot zero of 150. The reticle was more calibrated to my loadsthan i thought they would be Pleasantly surprised. Working backwards like this zeroing at range the error will be less at closer range.
THe reticle flat out works bracket find your range. Its not going to be perfect every time but after some use you fet a feel too big for this one too small for this one by how much. So its not quite as simple as bracket and dump but its quite fast. certainly faster than mil dot math. Way faster. Way less thinking. Save the thinking for your wind calls.
I realy like the reticle. Next ill see how the wind dots do. NO RETICLE SUBTENSIONS TO CHECK AGAINST A BALISTIC PROGRAM? SERIOUSLY? Gravity is uniform. Drop a a given elevation is uniform. Now i get to dope the wind and use that unkown against another unkown to try to see if the wind dots work?
I will say this. The total (and unexcusable) lack of reticle subtensions made me improvise and learn the scope better in the field. If i think its a 10mph wind and its a 12 it doesnt matter. What matters is that i know where the wind moves the projectile for what I think is a ten mile wind. If my wind calls are bad it doesnt matter as long as the are consistant relative to the wind dot. Its a subjective sort of thing, For what you think the wind is you hold off that much, This whole reticle puts you in a mind set appropriate to 556 and I like it. Very comfortable.
The glass is ,, usable. It doesnt shout out at you like really nice brilliant glass does where you sometimes just forget about shooting abd enjoy the day and the optical experience, My eyes are kind of jacked from early lasik and i have to adjust for light levels. whats the rear called not the objective.. losing it. Really not basd considering no paralex adjustment., Its no chronus not even a midas but its not priced there either. The glass works just fine. My understanding is you lose some glass quality with higher erector capabilites. I am VERY glad they chose 1-8 not 1-10. 8x does just fine on 10x12 steel plates at 600. You really cant tell whether 5,56 has hit the plate past 600 reliably anyway even with the 77s. Can you hit past 600 with 5.56? sure. I really consider 600 max effective range for 5.56 with the 77s.
The 1x is not a perfect 1x. You only notice if you look for it. A ffp is never going to rock 1x like a sfp. The circle dot works good. better than i thought. yes the center circle/dot is small at 1x. It works just fine for speed at 1x. Both eyes open no problem. Thats not always true for me with 1x. If theres distortion- the dreaded fish eye, i sure dint notice it. I will say the illumination really helps speed drills at 1x. It still works dark but the illumination reallu helps. For a FFP with a innovative reticle at range no complaints about 1x, none, speed drills both eyes open boom.
My go to to this point has been the athlon helos 2-12. Glass is better, price is a little more. Adjustanle paralax. 2x doesnt do what a 1x does for speed. a 12x and a mil reticle gets you out farther, Honestly for a 556 I would choose the ep-8. A 6,5 creed gasser te helos. Its just too nice having that 1x sitting there,
The eybox is a bit tight. Nothing painful, Nothing distracting, Nothing irratating. But yes a bit tight.
Love 34mm tube. Weight is reasonable.
IMO Arken hit it out of the park, I will be buying more, The reticle is revolutionary. It gets me out of that compulsive preciscion place in which i dwell into a more intuitive place. The KL reticle and the 1-8 make it the most versatile scope i have personally used. I own a mid dollar 1-6 SFP. 0-300 it is better. But the ep-8 isnt shabby and it rocks 3-600 with innovation!
No reticle subtensions? Seriously?
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One last thing.. I like most people started thinking i would like to shoot off thre reticle to keep it simple. That was 2o years ago now with a IOR mil mil optic. I like most people found it has drawbacks. One of them is getting lost in which of the ubiquitous aiming point is which. Yes you usually get it correct but thinking about it and double checking and triple checking distracts from the process of sending the projectile. Numbers close help but that is a logical not intuitive visual cue feedback as the body muscle memory prepares for sending the projectile.Which is one of the reasons most people dial elevation. There are visual cues that the horizontal plane is correct that are intuitive when elevation is dialed and those visual cues are intuitive and intefere less with the process of sending the projectile. . KL reticle does the same thing for reticle holdover. If it doesnt fit the box you get a visual cue so no wondering if you are on the correct aiming point. Its simple like sesame street. "One of these things is not like the other". Not to gush like a fan boy that just got his first mil mil FFP but I Truly think the KL reticle is revolutionary for a variety of functional reasons that relate to how humans are wired. Ive seen a few reticles in my time. Oh i forgot to mention. The horizontal bars make good aiming points for the 50 yard increments at range . So no its not really bracket and send. The flow is bracket fits yes send no two boxes closest fit send on the horizontal bar between. But your not just ranging you are establishing visual cues that allow that variable to be dealt with from a place of effortless and intuitive ability. Its a twofer and IMO a ffirst and unique in reticle engineering. That gets you within a 6" error at 600 ish. Thats what i mean when I say the reticle is "comfortable". Its comfortable because it eliminates multi tasking fom diferent abilities required and those tasks dont lend themselves to be demonstrated at the same time the way humans are wired. People realize this so they dial for elevation but that adds a a complete process. That process is added out of realization that the two tasks dont lend themselves tobeing performed at the same time.. At longer ranges with diferent tool i will continue to dial but somthiing just improved because more preciscion is required for the time vs precision equation. and i think its somthing that is piviol. The reticle provides a functional ranging system that is very fast at range while also providing 1x capability for oh poop how did that gobin get there and I think it does it with a understanding of how humans are wired in a manner not engineered previously.. The guy that designed this reticle knows his s*** not just in balistics but how humans are wired to send the pill. Standing ovationm from this shooter.