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Blackhound Emerge 2-12×44 has very solid optomechanical fundamentals, combined with some fairly glaring errors in how it is configured. It is a polarizing design, but if it fits your application, you could do a lot worse.
At first glance I tought it was an helos btr clone… Edit: 5:35 😅