Athlon Optics Midas G2 Pro UHD 12x50 Binoculars

Calling a miss in mils is quicker when the spotter reads the same units the shooter dials. The Athlon Midas G2 Pro UHD 12x50 puts an etched ATBR MIL reticle, with its own focus and level adjustments, inside a 12x50 binocular with UHD extra-low dispersion glass. The reticle is designed to help shooters and spotters give shooting corrections and to range targets in milliradians.

Key Features

• How the ATBR MIL reads. A 0.2 mil open-center crosshair carries hash marks every 0.2 mil out to 5 mils. The magnification is fixed, so the reticle values are always valid. One mil spans 3.6 inches at 100 yards, so an 18-inch target that fills half a mil is 1,000 yards away.
• Set once, then just focus. The diopter sits on the left eyepiece, the reticle focus and reticle level rings on the right. Focus the reticle against a blank wall or sky, then level it on the horizon, because your interpupillary distance can affect the reticle level. After that, you only adjust the main focus.
• Glass and prisms. UHD extra-low dispersion glass, designed to leave little or no color fringing, and ESP dielectric coating on phase-corrected BAK4 prisms that reflects over 99% of the light to your eyes, with advanced fully multi-coated lenses and an XPL protective coating on the outer lenses.
• Built for weather. The magnesium chassis is waterproof and fogproof, argon purged rather than nitrogen filled. The twist-up eyecups go fully down for eyeglasses and have an intermediate stop.

Ideal For

• Spotters and match shooters. Testing it for Coldboremiracle's review of October 31, 2024, the reviewer found 12x plenty for much of the spotting done while shooting, and having the reticle in view great for giving corrections. Glassing from thousands of yards on a mule deer hunt, the reviewer was downright surprised at how clear and clean an image it gave on deer from several miles away.
• Long-range hunters, its other intended application, who range game by its size.
• No reticle needed? The Midas G2 UHD 12x50 has the same 281 ft field, 15.0 mm eye relief and 11.5 ft close focus, weighs 28.5 oz against 32, and costs less.
• Spotting into dusk. The Steiner Tactical T856R 8x56 carries Steiner's SUMR milling reticle in an 8x56 built for low light, and costs more.

Accessories & Compatibility

• Tripod. A ¼-20 tripod adapter socket under the logo plate on the hinge takes the Athlon Binocular Tripod Adapter, which mounts the binocular on a regular camera tripod.