I'd been holding off on upgrading from a Gen2... but was finally ready to buy a Gen3 as it seemed like all the recent reports of recent production scopes were that all the minor bugs had been worked out (gummy turrets, turrets inadvertently locking, wonky parallax on some units, etc).
Saw this thread about the black one, and figured that'd be a pretty easy way to know I was grabbing a recent production unit...
FWIW, the turrets on my unit are awesome, seriously probably some of the nicest I've ever played with (and I shoot with a couple of guys who run a TT and ZCO so I have some experience with those), super deliberate and positive feeling (very TT-like, muy bueno), worlds apart from the couple of early Gen3 units I had played with.
I didn't think the new zero system would be a big deal because I didn't mind the old method with the Gen2s, but yeah, it's so easy, I now can see why some are saying it's probably the best out there now.
Today I changed more things at once than I normally like to by going to a new scope, new brake, and higher mount, but it still seemed like an old friend. My first impressions after shooting it today are that I like how much it felt just like my old trusted Gen2... just a better image, better clarity, same easy eyebox, same solid feel. Plus... black > brown lol.