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- Hey everybody, Baron here.
We have Adam Maxwell in
the shop today from Vortex.
You may recognize him from
being in the shop in the past.
He brought along a new
product from Vortex here,
and I'm gonna let him do
the introduction on it so,
Adam what we looking at here?
- Well we got the new for 2020,
Razor Gen three.
This is an all-new scope for us.
All the same things that
you came to know and love
about the Razor one to six.
Carried over into the Gen three,
but now see it goes up to 10.
This is a first focal
plane, 34 millimeter,
one to 10, low power variable optic.
So, very excited about this for 2020.
Been prototyping for over a year now,
been very happy with the results
and it's finally here.
So, wanted to make sure, like Baron said
got my start here at Arnzen Arms.
Happened to be in the neighborhood,
so wanted to make sure that
the Arnzen customers got a first look.
One of the few to get a first a look
at the new gen three.
- It's who ya know right?
So I gotta tell you guys
this thing is super cool.
I'm really excited about this.
So this one, I'm really
diggin' the reticle on it.
Doesn't have ridiculous weight going on.
Form factor is basically identical
to the Razor Gen two.
Eye box on 10 is still good on it,
so you're not having to line up
perfectly behind that to actually
take advantage of that 10 power.
So, I know I was asking Adam a little bit
about what all he's done
with it the past year.
I know he mentioned he did
a swat sniper competition with it.
- Yep!
- What else have you run this through?
- We've been running in 3-Gun obviously,
since I think, traditional
nationals last year.
But you may have noticed that the Vortex,
in-house Vortex 3-Gun guys
haven't posted a whole
lot of videos this year.
We've been secret squirrels
shooting this for quite a while.
I've had it at some DMR Swat type stuff,
so had it on .308 GAT's guns,
shootin' out 1100 yards.
It's been good man,
really it's everything
you came to know and love
about the Gen two, carried over.
So we weren't, we didn't wanna come out
with the Gen three until we could
bring those things to the customers.
So we wanted the same eye box,
we wanted the same weight.
If anything, I believe
we shaved another ounce
off of the E model, going to a one to 10.
We wanted a daylight-bright
illuminated reticle.
Which was probably one of
the harder parts to do.
The technology that's used
to illuminate the reticle is different,
and that had to be developed a little bit
to get it as bright as it is.
But yeah, really digging it.
Now the sexy part of it
is that it goes up to 10 now, right?
But really what excites me more probably
is that it's our first focal plane scope,
and we have a floating
reticle inside there.
So we have essentially,
a reticle that grows and
shrinks with magnification.
So when we zoom it all the way out,
you have a very subdued side picture.
It's almost red dot-ish.
There's just a very concentrated
reticle in the middle,
nothing really around the outside
obstructing your field of view.
And then when you start to need those
artifacts in there for point of reference
on holds at longer ranges, those explode.
It's almost like opening the map.
Those things become more
apparent as you zoom in.
So that's the part that I really like
even though for most of
the shooting we've done,
I pretty much live in the one to three
power range when I use it for 3-Gun,
but I mean it's a fully capable scope.
You're not going to be wanting
for more magnification in anything
that you would reasonably
use a low power variable for.
A lot of the same things carried over.
One of the things that
probably are undersold features
is that the turretts
are actually engineered
to disappear behind the eye piece.
So when you're looking through the scope
you can't see the turrets.
Things like that carried over,
locking illumination reticle.
Still goes up to 11 'cause
that's just how we roll.
Yeah man, we're just super excited
about this for 2020.
I know it comes with a sun shade,
I think it comes with the
switchview throw lever.
- Sweet.
- Don't quote me on that,
but I think it does,
and it's going to be hitting the streets
for about $1900.
- So really competitive pricing
considering what gets close to it
in the market right now.
- Right, right.
- The other thing I want to comment on,
since they've pushed that
top end so much higher,
everything under 10 is
gonna perform better.
So your six power, like
your current Razor Gen two,
it's gonna be more performance at six
because you have so much
more top end on this optic.
- Yeah.
Think of it as a one to
six that goes up to 10,
instead of a 10 Bauer scope
that goes down to one.
It's a low power variable scope
that has the higher
magnification capability,
not necessarily the other way around.
A lot of folks wanna look at it
as like a DMR scope and they start ask
about parallax adjustment,
things like that.
Not what this was really intended for,
but it's giving you that capability
in your intermediate
range carbine type optics.
- Which for its closest competitor,
that this is much more oriented
toward a carbine as I see it,
or that SPR/DMR, whatever
you wanna call it.
- Yep, yep your Mark 12 type--
- Exactly!
- Yeah.
- It does that I think, better.
Just looking at it here,
you know I've been talking about
doing PR's gas gun coming up in 2020.
That, I'm sold on, I'm gonna
end up with one of those.
I just gotta decide on a reticle,
so--
- Yep!
Very excited about it.
Two reticles!
So one is a military
themed MIL based reticle.
So we have a dot matrix underneath
with MIL-dots, Christmas tree type thing
that you become accustomed to.
And then there's going to BDC based
3-Gun style reticle with a 200 yard zero,
and it has dots at three, four, five, six.
And then windage dots five,
10, and 15 mile per hour.
It's a little bit cleaner
presentation of a reticle,
but those are the two
reticles coming to market.
Working on some others for some customers,
especially the LE market.
We're working on something.
A little bit different for those guys,
that's gonna be forthcoming though
in the coming months and years,
but for now, two reticles.
The EBR-9 and the EBR-11.
And then I guess the other thing too,
for those of you who
still like the one to six.
This optic is not getting discontinued.
So this is going forward,
the one to six E model
is still in production.
The same three reticles are currently
slated for 2020.
So anything that you knew
and love in this scope,
still going forward not
going away anytime soon.
This is just augmenting the line
with a little bit more capability,
and you're jumping about $500 in price.
- And one other thing I
wanted to ask on here.
Your magnification dial here is,
- Yes!
- Very easy to move!
Is that something you did,
or is it gonna be across the line-up?
- I can't take credit for that one,
but yes that is standard.
I've seen several samples of these
and all of them have had
a much easier to manipulate
magnification ring.
That was definitely feedback that we got
- Mhmm.
- Out of the old scopes,
put it into this scope so currently yes.
They're using a completely
different lubricant in there,
and so it is much easier to turn.
On most of my samples
that I've been using,
I haven't installed throw levers on 'em.
- Okay.
- Some of the other guys have.
I believe it's the SV-5 that fits it,
but there are throw lever options for it.
I guess that's another question
a lot of folks are gonna give.
"Why didn't you integrate the throw lever
"into the ring?"
That's intended as a
failure point, so to speak.
So something has to give at some point
if you exert enough force on it.
If the throw lever externally breaks,
you can put another one
on or we can send you one.
You don't have to send your
scope back the the factory.
The next failure point
beyond the lever would
be inside the scope,
and that's something that's
not user serviceable.
So that would be the reason
that it didn't come with a throw lever
integrated as part of the
system, but like I say,
I believe OEM packaging is going to have
the throw lever included with it,
and it's a fully warrantied part
earned in the VIP warranty program.
- All right, so if it were integrated
and you ended up ripping
it off on something.
You do damage to your dial here
or that, just the stud is still
stuck in that threaded part.
I mean most people aren't gonna have,
sitting in the their garage,
what they need to fix that.
So that's what Adam's talking about.
- Yep.
- Having that throw lever,
if you catch that, it rips off.
- Yep.
- Your scope keeps working,
- Just like the shear bolt
on your snowblower.
- Exactly!
Yep, so.
- For you, you southern people
you probably won't get that but...
(both laughing)
- So anything else we
should know about this guy?
Cool fun facts?
- Like I said,
(both laughing)
drop in, you're probably seeing this
January 10th or so.
It's gonna be on display at SHOT show,
for those of you who are attending that.
Certainly at NRA,
and I believe it's gonna start shipping
I've been told early spring,
and I'm confident in that date more so
than I usually am.
- Cool!
Well there you go guys.
The new Razor Gen three, one
to ten, first focal plane.
So get ready to check this out,
I'm really excited about this optic.
- Yeah, come on down to Arnzen Arms
and check it out!
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