PSA - New Sig Sauer Zulu6 HDX Pro's Are Trash

[Chingon]

Cross-posting here for awareness. I love my Gen 2 HDX 16's and jumped at the chance to give Sig more of my money on the 18 pro's. They are objectively worse at clarity, size, weight, batteries, stabilization... Sig only stands behind their "low light performance improvement".

This new gen is great way to lose money and gain frustration. If you do buy them just make sure to never look through the better and cheaper Gen 2's.

Zulu6 Pro 50 vs Kite APC 50

Has anyone had a chance to do any side by side comparisons with the new Sig Zulu6 hdx Pro 50mm OIS? Perhaps compared with the Kite APC 50 or even the previous model Zulu6 HDX 16x42, or Canon 15x50? I currently have a Zulu6 HDX 10x30 and 16x42. I had a chance to pit them against my Meopta...

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New Sig Zulu

You may want to hang on to those 10x. I absolutely love mine. The 20's are OK. In a more perfect world I think I would have the 10's on my chest and the new Sawro 14's for tripod use but I am OK with where I am at. Yeah I really want to try some ranging binos instead of the 10s but it’s...

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[Edwin]

I think you could make the argument that for the $ they aren't worth the extra $500 over the 42s but to say they are trash is wild. I had a chance to hunt behind the 16 pros for a week and the omniscan was incredible. Better light transmission and improved color with the 50mm objective and new coatings. I never reached for my swaros or my spotter the entire week. Eye of the beholder I guess.

 

[Chingon]

I think you could make the argument that for the $ they aren't worth the extra $500 over the 42s but to say they are trash is wild. I had a chance to hunt behind the 16 pros for a week and the omniscan was incredible. Better light transmission and improved color with the 50mm objective and new coatings. I never reached for my swaros or my spotter the entire week. Eye of the beholder I guess.

Thanks for the input, but did you actually run the Pro's side by side with 42's? I'm guessing you didn't. If so, please post up some pictures of the images to show an improvement.

For someone that hasn't used the 42's, or isn't looking through them side by side, they might seem pretty great. However, the idea of paying $500 extra for bigger, heavier, more battery hungry, LESS CLEAR glass is straight trash. Sorry, but that simply doesn't compute. Once Sig sends my 18's back I'll do a low light test off tripods to show that comparison. But to pay all that money and carry all that extra bulk for marginal performance improvement for only 5 min of the day? Epic fail.

 

[Edwin]

I sold my 42s to make room for the 50s. We did have them side by side. Both 16s. I'm used to the omniscan now so it would be hard to go back to the 42s. Battery life was just fine I've been playing with them since launch week and they are still on the original batteries. Maybe the 18s are less forgiving?? Anyone have a chance to use the 14 pros yet?