I am going to preface this opening statement by saying that I can only find 25 mills of internal elevation in dialing, not sure if the norm is to include stadia in that elevation equation. So glean what you will from that statement. That said here is what I think, IMHO.
The Element Theos has the easiest turrets I have ever used, the feedback is nice and crisp, the second rev indicator is awesome, tracking seems on point, and above all else it's a completely tooless design. Even the zero-stop is tooless and integrated into the design with - .5 mils of travel for corrections. The cap simply screws off with finger pressure and is re-set at the Zero of your choice. The windage turret is capped for set it and forget it.
The glass from edge to edge is as clear and equal optically to my Zeiss S3 and my ATACR scopes, the Theos only trails slightly behind my Vortex HD G3 6-36. The eyebox on the Theos is forgiving even past 30x, that said I probably wouldn't use the optic past 30x. The field of view is fairly wide, not sure on the exact dimensions of the FOV but it's good enough for me. It's very equal to most of the optics that come out of the LOW factory.
The reticle is great, at least I like it, it's fine and does not get in the way at any magnification, the stadia is de-marked at just the right positions for the shooting I do. I have not used the illumination yet, that's because I don't have any need for it, but it seems ample in twilight conditions.
The build quality is top notch, it's seemingly very rugged and nicely designed, of course and once again this will play out over time to see if it ever craps out. Once again it's seemingly on par with anything that comes out of LOW in Japan. Personally I would probably trust Japanese made optics above European or US...sadly.
The concept of purchasing this optic was for a switch barrel rifle (SRS or AIAX..etc..), where you could record the offsets and simply go back and forth between those settings easily and without tools. We will see if that can play out as theorized in practice over time.
I will update this post if I get any new and meaningful data when using the optic.
The Element Theos has the easiest turrets I have ever used, the feedback is nice and crisp, the second rev indicator is awesome, tracking seems on point, and above all else it's a completely tooless design. Even the zero-stop is tooless and integrated into the design with - .5 mils of travel for corrections. The cap simply screws off with finger pressure and is re-set at the Zero of your choice. The windage turret is capped for set it and forget it.
The glass from edge to edge is as clear and equal optically to my Zeiss S3 and my ATACR scopes, the Theos only trails slightly behind my Vortex HD G3 6-36. The eyebox on the Theos is forgiving even past 30x, that said I probably wouldn't use the optic past 30x. The field of view is fairly wide, not sure on the exact dimensions of the FOV but it's good enough for me. It's very equal to most of the optics that come out of the LOW factory.
The reticle is great, at least I like it, it's fine and does not get in the way at any magnification, the stadia is de-marked at just the right positions for the shooting I do. I have not used the illumination yet, that's because I don't have any need for it, but it seems ample in twilight conditions.
The build quality is top notch, it's seemingly very rugged and nicely designed, of course and once again this will play out over time to see if it ever craps out. Once again it's seemingly on par with anything that comes out of LOW in Japan. Personally I would probably trust Japanese made optics above European or US...sadly.
The concept of purchasing this optic was for a switch barrel rifle (SRS or AIAX..etc..), where you could record the offsets and simply go back and forth between those settings easily and without tools. We will see if that can play out as theorized in practice over time.
I will update this post if I get any new and meaningful data when using the optic.
