TimJ from United States, PA Public Profile

I've used a couple other of Wicked Edge's products and loved them so I got in early on the kickstarter for this, and it's a neat concept, but the execution makes the sharpening process a bit frustrating. Would it work in a survival situation to keep a knife usably sharp, probably assuming the plastic slider didn't break. Would I ever take it into a hunting/camping situation for general knife use......nope. Not unless for some reason every ounce counted and I couldn't pack something with just a bit more weight/size that works much better.

The big problem is the slider guide can bind at the end of the sliding groove, why they didn't just put a hard stop here I'm not sure. When it does what happens is on your next stroke the slider binds, this drives the blade off the angle guide and into the "wedge" which causes one of two problems. 1) the system binds up and you have to start over. 2) It moves a bit with the blade at a much lower angle than the guide. So now you've not only had a partial sharpening stroke, but at an angle much lower than it should be.

It's also much smaller than I thought it would be, it's a bit challenging to use with large hands, as there isn't much to hold onto.

This is a great idea, it's pouches are perfectly sized for a range of common target sizes, but the zipper locations make it a fail.

Because they are on the sides spaced down ~2" from the top of the compartment you have to fight to get targets into and out of the pouches, and you have to bend them going both in and out.

If the zippers were on the top of the pouches, it would work as it should.

It would also be nice if there was a rigid insert to help keep the targets from getting bent/folded etc.

There's a lot to like about this scope as long as you really care about the reticle and ballistic features. There's a lot of neat technology that lets you setup holds, do ballistic holds etc. I'll give Sig credit that they are bringing a ton of technology to the consumer at a lower price, something probably has to give when doing that, and in this case it's the optical quality. However, that's about where the positives end.

The reticle is very thick, now to be fair that's needed to house the electronics that display the dots I'm sure. So I can give them a pass on that, but just be aware it covers a lot of target, at 18x at 100 yards it's probably covering 1.5" of the target, makes it hard to really dial in zero. Especially if you are used to thinner reticles on todays tactical/competition options.

The max brightness is pretty low, you can see it on max brightness against a gray target in full sun, but if it was a full sun white target, or snow scene it would be hard and that's with new batteries. I've also had it turn off twice while shooting, recoil seems to affect it. As with many scopes don't trust the yardage on the parallax, mine is parallax free at 100 set on ~175yds.

Probably most disappointing is the glass quality, it's functional, but optically it's about on par with a $300 scope. My Vortex PST II 5-25x glass is much better on the same power, and even at max power. I'm not even sure the glass compares well with my Nikon Black FX1000 4-16, or Bushnell 3200 3

Their .223 model works very well, the 9mm is way more picky. It works okay, but is very touchy about how you run it. Once you get a rhythm down and understand the issues it's not bad, but you definitely don't want to just let your buddy hop on and run it. It's very important you go slower than you can, in that it's important the make sure the lever travels fully up and down with a little pause at each spot, try to go too fast and things go wrong very quickly. The lever placement/size is not great, esp. if you have it on a bench because then ensuring the lever goes fully downward usually results in your hand hitting the table or loader. The big issue I have is the hopper does not feed constantly, rounds get jammed up in the top of the hopper and do not keep the mechanism fed. As a result it's very easy to run out of rounds in the mechanism. If you like to load your mags to a certain round count it's very annoying. I usually load 10 rounds in my mags for the range and I typically get anywhere from 7-10 due to the above issue. As a result you end up constantly nudging rounds around in the hopper so they feed in to try and ensure each lever pull actually has a round to load. It's still faster than a maglula loader, but not much, esp. if you are doing different mags and have to swap out mag inserts. Which are just 3D printed plastic, there's no way they should be $20 a pop. I will say it's impressive how well it works with a insert with the mags I've tried. It's great for loading

First the good, they appear to range well, and for the price you get a lot for your money. I’ll give Sig a lot of credit for bringing the Bluetooth integration to these products because it should have been out years ago. For the $ it’s hard to complain too much about what you get. Sig is definitely pushing the value for your money category.

That said I do have some issues with the unit. First the lack of lens caps, this is a huge oversight, especially since the binoculars objective lens is only 1-2 mm recessed from the end of the binocular housing. It’s way too easy to damage or scratch a lens in the case etc. Second the unit has a great range of manual brightness settings, but the “Auto” brightness setting is way too dim in flat light and overcast conditions. Third the color tint on the right lens (I assume this lens contains the rangefinder display) has a very obviously blue/green tint. I’ve looked through and own other range finding binoculars and none of them have this drastic a tint. So if you think the image is going to compare to higher dollar units, it simply won’t, but they are 3x the price.

Bought to use on a backup long range rig. First let me say the glass is pretty good, I like the Dev-L reticle, illumination is very bright, and I applaud Sig for putting technology in the product, the leveling indicator is a very nice feature. Fit and finish looked pretty well, packaging is nice. The manual could have more detail in it. It’s heavy but so are other scopes in its class.

Where the scope fell short and never even made it to the range was that the elevation turret would not lock without it being rotated past the “click”. I tried going through the zeroing and zero stop process etc. thinking something was probably just loose etc. However, everything seemed tight and right. Basically with the knob unlocked you could dial say to 5.0 mils, but if you wanted to lock the knob you had to dial half way to 5.1 mils or 4.9 mils. The windage knob was fine, you dialed to a click and it locked without messing with it. My guess is gearing knob that makes the adjustment is out of time with the gear that locks the turret.

To me having to rotate a turret past a click setting to get the turret to lock is a defect.

Overall I really like GPS's products, and I really want to like the range backpack but the problem for me is the pistol cases, they are simply too small and annoying to use for full size guns. Because the pistol pouches are setup to carry mags, what you have inside each pouch is a padded sleeve you have to try and shove the handgun into.

That works great for a Glock 19, and medium/smaller guns, but if you have full size guns like a FNX tactical, CZ Shadow 2, 320 X-five, full size 1911's etc. it's annoying to try and get the gun into and out of that pocket. Have something with a light/laser/RMR on it.....forget it. As a result I find myself never using it. There's plenty of room in the pouch itself, but because you are basically trying to slide the gun into a sleeve sewn inside one half of the pouch, it's just too tight. It would be much better if it was just a padded fold open pouch, or even just a padded slide in type pouch with a velcro flap.

You can just lay the gun into the pouch without putting it in the padded sleeve but then you gun is riding on the zipper, fine for a glock, not fine for higher end guns. A full size Glock easily fits inside the footprint of the pouch if you just lay it inside, but when you try and get it into the padded sleeve it's simply too small so you are either getting hung up on the bottom of the grip or the rear sight, and while I can manage to shove it in there, it's even more annoying trying to get it back out.

Build quality etc.

First I'll say that if the unit would have worked for more than a couple hours, I'd probably give it 4-5 stars. It's not nearly as nice of a picture as some of the higher price options but it's also only $200. The pictures are good enough to see bore damage and also if your cleaning regime is working.

That said my unit was DOA out of the box twice! First the power cable that goes between the USB power adapter and the display unit was dead, not a huge deal I had another micro USB cable around. Once that was replaced it worked pretty well for a couple hours, and then the light in the wand started flickering and just stopped working, but the camera continued to function, but without the light it's worthless. Not sure if it was the camera/wand unit, something in the cable, or the display unit.

So after two major issues out of the box, I sent it back for a refund.

If they put some more $ into it, making a better display, and higher quality parts, they could double the price to $400, and it would still be half the price of the next best option. The quality is really really lacking and it seems like people either get one that works, or is a total lemon like mine.