Do not confuse the Venom with the Strike Eagle… They are not the same scopes, and aren’t even the same quality. They don’t use the same glass, turrets, or even the same lenses, or scope body/tube design. The Strike Eagle is superior to the Venom in every way, other than price. If the Venom is all you can afford, save up $65 more dollars and get the Arken EP5 hands-down.
I own a Strike Eagle 5-25x56 EBR-7C, and it’s a great scope, and (IMO) bang-for-your-buck is a better deal than the PST Gen2 5-25x50. But bang for your buck, the Arken EP5 with Japanese ED glass at only $565 blows both of them away, considering it’s almost half what the PST Gen2 costs.
A guy at the range had a new PST Gen2 5-25x, and I had my Arken EP5, and my Strike Eagle 5-25x EBR-7C scopes there. We all compared them back-to-back, and unanimously concluded the EP5 glass was on par with the PST Gen2, and both were just slightly better glass than the Strike Eagle, but is the PST $200-300 better than the SE? Was it $450 better than the Arken EP5? That’s up to you.