Would you buy this scope?

[alexnelon]

We can drop the whole aesthetic topic at this point.

The whole range of opinions have been thrown out and they're all different and none of them really matter. It's not productive to argue back and forth about it.

 

[RockAndSage]

Lazer engrave a big pink dick on the side and name it the Meat Pounder for all I care, if it works as advertised in the package promised then does it really matter what color the font is?!?!?!

Dude, quit talking about your Prime Ministers - they don't work as advertised, anyhow.

Listen, joking aside - for those the issue matters to, it matters. For those it doesn't, it won't matter no matter how the conversation goes. We're voicing our preferences, as part of the market. A billboard of garish color will detract from our enjoyment and appreciation of these items we invest in. Not their utility. But it matters. And there's a pretty reasonable and wide window of what tasteful means. Big and garish is not it. Those who want big and garish can also pick up a paint pen and treat it like a toilet stall, pink big d*cks and all.

 

[RockAndSage]

I'm fine with all of it being left off

Nobody's asking for this.

I just don't want such a special scope, that I expect to spend several thousand dollars in acquiring examples of, to have the equivalent of purple hair and a nose ring begging for attention and approval.

Separate but related - look at all the major, quality optics brands. None of them have a giant logo on the bell. It's all tasteful symbols or font on the turrets or the ocular.

Go look.

Nightforce, Schmidt & Bender, Swarovski, Leupold, Leica, Vortex even - none of them have garish branding like that.

If someone doesn't think a giant logo on the bell will negatively impact perceived quality of that optic, they don't understand branding or people. It matters.

Marketing is not easy. And it's full of pitfalls. And it matters.

 

[alexnelon]

None of them have a giant logo on the bell. It's all tasteful symbols or font on the turrets or the ocular.

Leica and March both do.

 

[RockAndSage]

Leica and March both do.

I'll concede on March - and point out that an exception doesn't invalidate the rule or the utility other vastly more experienced scope brands have found in not treating their scopes like billboards. Leica's symbols on its optics though, even if on the bell, are the small, tasteful dot logo. Even Leupold just does the gold ring - tastefully.

 

[HuntHarder]

I think the orange branding makes the scope look gaudy.

And GHEYYYYYYY!

 

[Brandon.miller.4]

Ill toss in my .02. I agree that s2h should get credit for this scope. I also agree that the most tasteful branding is small in simple (think NF of nightforce). Anyone in the scope industru instantly recognizes it and associates with quality. Above all id love to see this scope take over the market. I couldn't care less if it was big and gaudy but im unashamedly utilitarian. The vast majority of the public do not see it the same way. Many people DO care what it looks like. I think a classy S2H of some sort would be a great compromise and let the box it comes in tell the story.

 

[Svivian]

If its Tenmile or NX8 quality glass with a good hunting reticle for a $1000 they could print dildos on the damn thing who cares.

 

[Choupique]

Maybe im not actually as sure of my sexuality as I think i am, but if it gets a big pink pecker engraved on it, I aint buying it. Yall can have that one.

 

[Kaleb]

Nobody's asking for this.

I just don't want such a special scope, that I expect to spend several thousand dollars in acquiring examples of, to have the equivalent of purple hair and a nose ring begging for attention and approval.

Separate but related - look at all the major, quality optics brands. None of them have a giant logo on the bell. It's all tasteful symbols or font on the turrets or the ocular.

Go look.

Nightforce, Schmidt & Bender, Swarovski, Leupold, Leica, Vortex even - none of them have garish branding like that.

If someone doesn't think a giant logo on the bell will negatively impact perceived quality of that optic, they don't understand branding or people. It matters.

Marketing is not easy. And it's full of pitfalls. And it matters.

If you're going to quote me quote all of it please. It does not matter to me. I'm not petty enough to care how they want to label it as long as it works.

 

[Kaleb]

I'm buying in for one or some. I don't want words put in my mouth anyitng else. If it has a big logo and I don't like it I can cover it up. That's all. No more or less.

 

[Kaleb]

Nobody's asking for this.

I just don't want such a special scope, that I expect to spend several thousand dollars in acquiring examples of, to have the equivalent of purple hair and a nose ring begging for attention and approval.

Separate but related - look at all the major, quality optics brands. None of them have a giant logo on the bell. It's all tasteful symbols or font on the turrets or the ocular.

Go look.

Nightforce, Schmidt & Bender, Swarovski, Leupold, Leica, Vortex even - none of them have garish branding like that.

If someone doesn't think a giant logo on the bell will negatively impact perceived quality of that optic, they don't understand branding or people. It matters.

Marketing is not easy. And it's full of pitfalls. And it matters.

again I don't need someone that feels the need to to type out paragraphs to cherry pick half a dozen of my words. I don't care what's on it or not on it.

 

[Walker6]

Shoot2Hunt is a great name for a podcast. It’s a terrible name for a line of optics. I buy a lot of stuff, so I should know (grin.)

Call your scope something else. Avoid using numbers for words, x’s instead of s’s, and other clever ideas. And don’t paint yourselves into a corner with the first one. If it’s good, you’ll end up selling a bunch more and you’ll need a good naming system.

Also, Don, that’s big?

 

[Kaleb]

If it stays the same I don't care wha they call it or what color it is. I hope it's pink and blows minds.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Can we please not dilute this thread with arguments about dildos?

 

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

Shoot2Hunt is a great name for a podcast. It’s a terrible name for a line of optics. I buy a lot of stuff, so I should know (grin.)

Call your scope something else. Avoid using numbers for words, x’s instead of s’s, and other clever ideas. And don’t paint yourselves into a corner with the first one. If it’s good, you’ll end up selling a bunch more and you’ll need a good naming system.

Also, Don, that’s big?

Appears it will be part of an already named line of scopes

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Jan 31, 2026

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[NDHUNTER24]

I'm still going to go with the THLR, but do we have any up close reticle pics of the RMG-H to share?

 

[KHntr]

Call your scope something else.

I already named it.


The MEAT POUNDER.

 

[Walker6]

Appears it will be part of an already named line of scopes

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Jan 31, 2026

As always, things are subject to change!

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Oh I missed it by 20 pages.

Zero Tech Trace ain’t bad. 5 years from now a dude will be selling a ZT Trace in the optics classifieds with the disclaimer “this is one of the old models with the Shoot2Hunt logo on it, but it tracks and holds zero…”

 

[The Guide]

Oh I missed it by 20 pages.

Zero Tech Trace ain’t bad. 5 years from now a dude will be selling a ZT Trace in the optics classifieds with the disclaimer “this is one of the old models with the Shoot2Hunt logo on it, but it tracks and holds zero…”

In that same line of thought, there will be guys with WTB ads looking for an original ZT Trace ADV with the Shoot2Hunt logo cause those are the good ones that hold zero and track right...

Jay