The reason they are in the Rex videos is that we slew them over and over so IOR needed to find an outlet to talk about them.
They were dying left and right, so excuse the few, "mine work great" as a broken clock is right twice a day. You never see them and when you do, it's someone who barely puts 3000 rounds downrange a year. They are the same as playing dice, roll the dice, take your chance.
The other reason this site slays them, they infringed on my trademark without permission trying to brand the 3-18x as a SH Edition scope. They were looking for a reticle, a dealer (Scott @ Liberty) came on here as a dealer for them and enlisted the forum to design their reticle. The members crowd designed their current reticle and so they felt my Trademarked Name and Logo were free to use in order to sell scopes. We never authorized it.
They have "great glass" because they use an old WWII / Cold War Era Communist Zeiss factory in Romania that was trapped behind the Iron Curtain when Germany was split up. However, they cannot make internal components to save their ass. Scopes are Telescopic SIGHTING devices, not spotters. So while glass quality is important, mechanics in the scope are more important as we have to dial our turrets in order to hit shit. If those mechanics don't work right, you cannot hit a target no matter how crispy the image looks through the scope.
We deal in volume, and not one-off anecdotal stories from people who rarely venture past 100 yards. We try to not waste people's money but if you are hell-bent on throwing it away, go for it.