Folks over estimate the importance of zoom on an optic like this.
agreed. I don't shoot much 3-gun, but I very seldom even used the top end of my 1-4x PST. I remember going to 4x costing me on one stage that had poppers/flashers from ~200 out to about 350 since I set up in a bit of an awkward position and took longer than I'd have liked finding the target in the scope. FOV would have been more useful than zoom.
Stoked about getting the 1-6 pst gen2, but jumping on it had nothing to do with the 6x. I plan to make cheat sheets showing holds at 2 and 3x in addition to 6x as I figure 6x will be mostly reserved for zeroing duty and some practice on groups...
-rvb