Ok, here's some first impressions on the Jockey 640.
I shot it some
I looked around with it some
I compared it to the 10 year olde Armasight Apollo 640 ... an older "grand-cousin".
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Note its HOT in SW MO these days - and so terrible thermal conditions !
I used a mk 12-ish with an ATACR 1-8x
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I day zeroed (the green dot) and I night collimated - the handwarmer. I'm a little bit left - IDK what the "click value" is but it isn't 0.1 inches.
Collimating was super easy. You line up the "collimating reticle" with your day scope reticle - done. For a decade - we have to guess and guess and guess and shoot. No longer !! Now we line em up and shoot to verify.
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Here's a shot of the mineral cube and salt cube on the ground around the corral ...
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And here's a shot of a cow ...
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Here's a side by side shot of the Jockey and the Apollo (my current Apollo is a 640 (30hz).
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And here's a shot of the cubes by the corral with the Apollo (the cow had moved)
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Pros and Cons
The Jockey is small
The apollo is about 50% longer than the Jockey
Judging by my mk1eb I'd say the Apollo could see more detail
Neither of them are a voodoo-S but they can get the job done. I usually run the Apollo on the 22lr and counting the earlier apollo I got back in 2014 - I've killed > 200 critters with Apollos ... mostly mice - but plenty of coons and opossum and other. I shot eley 40gr(or36gr) subsonic HP.
Both have manual focus. WIth the Apollo not much changes in the middle of the adjustment range ... only at the 2 ends. With the Jockey its much more sensitve and a small turn at any point thru the range gets you some visible adjustment.
This is a newer Apollo and has auto-nuc, so does the Jockey.
The jockey does NOT exhibit the "jerkiness" I experienced with the sidekick when the SK was first released - so that good !!!
The Jockey seems to be using a modified SK housing. The Jockey has a larger front lens and a different rear lens - a collimating - non-adjustable lens since its a clipon. The jockey has a double length battery compartment so can use a 16650 or 2xc123 without a extension cap.
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I would not rule out using the Jockey for critter control - the small size is the most attractive aspect to me. I could even run it on the 10.3 carbine in front on an nx8 1-8x ...
I hope they keep hammering away improving the image - the upgrades have improved the SK.
The SK is way better than the breach. Breach starts getting fuzzy above 50yds ... and sees blobs above 100yds. The SK is still clear out to 200yds which is a far as I can see on my land - I'm in the Ozarks, in the Mark Twain National Forest. But the SK isn't up to the level of a VoodooS/Skeet/Nox18 etc.
I haven't seen the latest upgrade to the SK software, but I suspect the Jockey's have that. The auto-nuc frequency is much reduced (still higher than the Apollo).
The focus is better on the Jockey (vs Apollo). Collimating is WAY better. WIth a little practice you can collimate the Jockey in seconds.
Battery compartment is better on the Jockey as well.
I briefly had a T&E Contractor 75mm 4.8x TWS last year and I thought it was great - it seemed to be in the OASYS ball park, so I'm not sure why the newer models aren't up to that standard. I'm sure the larger lens on the 4.8x helps.
I've been out 3 nights with it - but we hit 101F yesterday so not ideal conditions ...
Ask away if any questions and I'll try to answer.