Reviews & Ratings for Athlon Optics Cronus 20-60x86mm ED Spotting Scopes — 2 reviews — Page 1

Just received the new Cronus 20-60x86 ED spot scope, it's a great clear scope right out the box, I set it up late evening and focused on a 400 ft radio cell tower over a mile from my house, I focused it using only the fine adj. knob at 20 power and could see fine details of bolts and nuts at the bolt up sections of the tower, at 50 power I could see the threads of the bolt coming thru the nut, I'm blown away at the clarity of this scope, I will put this scope thru some more paces in the field shortly, but so far this is the spot scope for me, the price is right, and mounted on a good tri pod it has the value I was looking for without breaking the bank.

Here is a summary for this review: If you can only spend $600 and want a nice wide FOV at 20X, then buy the Nikon Prostaff, If you have $800 and care more about the high end zoom performance (40X+) then buy the Athlon Ares. If you have $2700 then maybe you want the Nightforce TS-82 (I can't be sure as I could not afford that and it's not one of the scopes compared below), but you have $1500 and want a really impressive scope then the Athlon Cronus is the scope for you. I did not compare it with the Vortex Razor because after seeing online from independent sources that the Razor appears to have a cold temperature issue with its eyepiece and many people are selling open box returns of them online, I decided I had to limit the Razor out from the comparison (return shipping to multiple vendors for all these scopes gets expensive with insurance and signature, etc....) To be fair, I have not cold temperature cycled the Cronus in providing the evaluation below. For me this was expensive, so I will baby my scope as much as possible, and am not going to stick it in the freezer just for you folks ;D. With that said, I purchased and returned several scopes from several different vendors/mfg's before deciding to keep this scope. I compared it directly side by side with the Nikon Prostaff, Celestron Regal M2, Sightron, Meopro and others. Note, there is not another adjustable eye piece of higher quality available for the Regal M2 than the one that comes with it - what a waste of a ...
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