Element Optics Nexus Gen 2 4-25x50mm Field Evaluation

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This is a field evaluation of the Eelwmant Nexus Gen 2 4-25x50mm. scope. This scope was sent to Ryan Avery for an evaluation.


The scope:



31oz



Turrets:

Elevation turrets is exposed, with a zero stop, and second rev indicator. Windage is capped, rotation limited to half rev. Windage also comes with a ring to cover the threads is one desired to have an exposed windage turret. Both are resettable without tools.

Look just under the turret, left of center and you can see the rev indicator number.



Second rev-



Elevation cap removed.




Reticle: Is a common .5 mil per hash mark version. There is 15mil from center to bold black outer posts.

4x



25x




Illuminated:

4x



25x




Zeroing and drop eval will come shortly….

 

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Drop Evaluation RTZ and “Tracking”:


For an explanation see- Scope Field Eval Explanation and Standards


The “test” consists of three 18” drops on a mat- one left/right/top with a shot to check zero after each drop. Then the exact same thing repeated from 36”. Then three drops on all three sides for nine drops on the last part- 15 drops total. This is not “abuse”. The 18” drops are a joke really. The 36” start showing something. And when a scope make/model consistently goes through the whole thing without losing zero, and makes it through the high round count portion, failures in actual use are almost unheard of.

This one was conducted on soft soil, with a 1/2 rubber padded mat top.

The rings were degreased and installed with 65 in-lbs on base screws, and 20-lbs on ring cap screws.



Ammunition used was Federal 168gr Tru. The 20 round proof group with this ammo was 1.2 MOA.


Zeroing:

Went without issue. Borersighted, 1 round, adjusted, the next 9 went into the left dot-



Made a up .1 and left .1 adjustment, and went to the drop eval.



Drop evaluation:


The 18” drops had no effect. The right side and top single 36” drops shifted as shown (shots 6 and 7), and the 9x36” drops caused a dramatic shift left (shots 8).







Based on the behavior the scope was exhibiting, my suspicion was that it may walk back into zero to close. I went back to the zero target and shot the round in order- no adjustments were made to the scope at all.

Bottom center dot. By shot 5 it had walked its way back to being zeroed.




At this point I removed it to eval another scope.

After evaling that scope I remounted this one back on to see if ring torque, etc would make a difference. 25in-lbs in the Nightforce rings.

This is the result:

1st shot is right of the dot. Used the reticle to measure, made an adjustment, and fired shot number 2. Made an adjustment back to the right and fired shot 3- which did not move. So I stopped adjusting and just kept shooting. Each shot moved to the left in order as shown-



Either the erector was bound up, or it was broken. Took scope out of the rings and moved it back changing where the rings were located. Retorqued.

Shot two at the bottom right dot, adjusted and shot the one in the top right dot-






This is where I left it. I will see if it maintains some semblance of a zero from here.

Being that it did not hold zero through the drops, the rest of the eval was not conducted.



Conclusion:

The scope didn’t hold zero through 36” drops. It did return to zero after several shots after dropping it. When remounted it showed extreme lateral POI drifting. Remounted again and it seemed to adjust correctly.

 

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Just the truck ride from yesterday to today. About 40 miles paved, and 10-12 forest service road-