Here is a better look at the Heads Up Display (HUD) in Burris' XTR PS scopes. In this case, I am looking through a 3.3-18x50, but the HUD is the same in both models.
https://alnk.to/4qN7csi

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The more time I spent with HUD equipped scopes, the more I think that this is a significant step forward.

If they ever get a WMLRF to connect to this thing, it will be amazing, but even as is, I think it is a meaningful advantage.

Here is a quick look at the reticle through the scope. As I watch the video, it looks thinner in the picture than it does in real life. I have a suspicion that those relatively dense 0.2mrad hashmarks make the primary stadia stand out more than they would otherwise.

One one hand, I'd prefer for this reticle to be a little bolder or have some high visibility features.

On the other hand, it is pretty usable as is and the scope is quickly becoming one of my favourite MPVO designs currently on the market.

Next step will be to get it back on the gun, mount a piggy-backed RDS and do some shooting from 10 yards to 800 yards.
https://alnk.to/9bvy9a9

Zeiss makes quite a few binoculars. Aside from an occasional misstep (Terra...), most of them are pretty good.
As with any product line, some models come together better than others.
Zeiss' SFL product line is something I looked at briefly, but never dwelled on it too much. They seemed like nice binoculars, but I never really looked at them carefully.
Imagine my surprise when the folks at Zeiss reached out and asked if I want to take a look at their new 12x50 version of the SFL.
They know I live out west, so they must have heard I have the space to really work out where the limits of a 12x50 binocular are.
Given that sending me a product to look at involves certain risks (until I am pretty much done with the review, I ignore marketing literature and any and all attempts from any company to tell me what to say), I figured that they either decided to live dangerously or that they are pretty damn confident of how good the product is.
I do not know for sure which one it is, but the ...

Do you remember what the turrets felt like on your Zeiss LRP S5? Did your elevation and windage turrets feel similar? Mine are quite different.

The elevation turret on mine doesn't feel nearly as good as the windage turret.

The windage turret is very tactile and audible, you can feel each click thunk into place.

My elevation turret is barely audible and the clicks aren't nearly as positive as the windage. It's easy to skip past click detent in the elevation turret, this not a problem on the windage turret.

I also posted this question on snipershide as "Gil P."

As is often the case these days, I am a little under the weather, so rather than work through the weekend as I usually do, I figured I can play hooky for a few hours and read a book.

The book happened to be Douglas Murray's "On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization" that came out a couple of weeks ago.
https://amzn.to/4lVdR9c

I like his writing style which makes this very difficult subject matter a little bit of an easier reading. Still, he goes through a lot of eyewitness testimony of Palestinian atrocities and it is far from easy reading.

Easy or not, it should be required reading for all of our brainwashed college students demonstrating on campuses and chanting genocidal Hamas slogans.

It really should be required reading for anyone looking to understand the conflict in the Middle East.