The helos turrets are every bit as good as the ares turrets, probably feel a little better in my opinion. The locking feature is a little stiff but it’s leaps and bounds better in the turret department than the strike eagle 5-25 and 3-18. I think the locking feature gives it a one up on the ares honestly. The turrets on the helos gen 2 is some of the best turrets I’ve ever felt on a scope. They are right there with a good representation of the Arken turrets. Most who reviewed the helos gen2 with the ares btr say they are very close in the glass, just because one has HD glass and the other doesn’t, there’s way more in play into determining how glass performs in a scope. Like erector systems and how glass is aligned, for instance a 6-24 power scope being a 4x erector can have excellent performance in the eye box and how it handles glass quality, compared that to 4.5-27 power 6x erector, it probably needs to have HD glass to perform as good because of the nature of that erector assembly. In other words the helos g2 can outperform the ares g2 in several different ways just because of the simplicity of the assembly, my rings are going to be here today so I’ll get to compare, but I do know with both right here on my bench, that the helos gen 2 is every bit as good, I’m not sure if you are taking about the same scope. The helos g2 beat the ep5 and ep4 in eye box and glass, and those two got a few extra points above the strike eagle 5-25 and 3-18, so they got sold and I kept the arkens. Maybe you’re confusing it with something else. That’s how close they are, there’s not a huge distinction between the two.