Fantastic breakdown, I don't recall any other videos comparing these two LPVO in this manner. I really dig your perspective/experiences in your videos.
Having owned both I totally agree on the 0-100 and 100-beyond. Not everyone understands that some scopes are better at 1x and some are better at max magnification. Match that to your gun and you’ll get good results.
In my world, 1x6 is the sweet-spot for LPVOs. SFP is the most useful. If I sm going to be shooting at the outer limit of 5.56 range, I use what I consider a MPVO (2x10) with parallax adjustment like the Vortex PST 2.5-10X32, this scope blows out any 1x10 at distance for clarity and brightness
I have both myself and completely concur with the analysis. Gen 2E is a perfect general purpose optic while the Gen 3 works a lot better for the SPR role. I do wish the center dot on the Gen 3 was a little smaller, but thats nitpicking on my part.
I always felt that second focal plane LpVO should only have 2 maybe three magnification settings TBH, only because after owning a second focal plane optic and quickly selling it to go back to first focal. Having a capable 1x is the point of an LPVO, so both first and second planes need that. But as for the use of thier respected BDC's .. what's the point to have 2x to 5X on a 6X or 2x to 7X on an 8X second plane if they don't line up, and not by 50 yards but by a lot depending where you zeroed you're main dot/ chevron. If a second focal plane LPVO reticle is nicely sized, you can easily use you're main dot like a red dot up 200 yards, running and gunning just to get hits is easy up to 100 yards. That's what I was able to do with my 1X/8X strike eagle. but when it came down to using my BDC I had to zoom to max power, and I saw no use to have that magnification of 8x for a 350ish yard shot -_- making shake like Michael J Fox for a shot like that. when I got the latest Strike Eagle 1x / 8x I felt at home. dial-up up to 4x for that 350ish shot and easily rang that steel. when it came to 25 to 100 yard shots it was dumb east with that T shape stadia lines and and the reticle tiny. I feel that would open the market more for shooters on how they prefer to use their LPVO depending what they're using it for.
1.5-2x per 100yds is a good rule of thumb. With the Razor that puts us at 300-400yds. I’ve gone further with it but the reduced (realistic) target size fits neatly into the 1.5-2x rule.
I think spr's are better off with non lpvo scopes such as meoptas 1.7-10×42 or similar. Even 1.5-6×42 or 1.5-8×42 scopes by zeiss, meopta, and others destroy lpvos in ease of use, eyebox, clarity, brightness and still are lighter than most of these lpvos. They don't have those huge stupid target turrets than literally no one ever dials with. Lpvos could drop 5 oz if they dropped the useless heavy internal turrets.
