Tubed heavier , specially adding Ir , longer , it's night time when ir can get knocked or caughtFor me it's a massive step forwards. Tubed is way better than a brick on a stupid mount and realises a much better cheek weld and eye fall on the ocular. It is nice and lightweight and no extra battery drain due to inbuilt IR and plenty of time I will not need it at last knockings. It will only be in the very last moments of light or when foxing at night that I would add an IR torch. In that case, it is better to have a choice of what you want to use for all manner of scenarios and it takes literally 5 seconds to slot in the mount on the ludicrous lumens torch mount and tighten so that your chosen torch is perfectly aligned. No having to rely on the inbuilt torch being aligned perfectly (many are not apparently) and you don't have to walk about with an extra item catching on branches or wire etc until you actually need it.
Faster lens and bigger than the Alpex light. 4k which is better than the previous Zulus, so daytime should be better.
It is hard to find a fault with the concept for my needs. Proof will be in the pudding of course but I can see this being much better than what went before. I have been a Vulpine user for a long time now as I could never quite reconcile the compromises that were always a requirement with the various dedicated scopes. This is now just about doable I feel. We shall see when it turns up but fingers crossed.
Battery life on v2 is excellent , plus on the tubed with a separate IR you will need two batteries to worry about .
So for me that’s why I think it’s a step backwards. We all like different things