I'm sure you know this but I want to throw it out there for those that might not know.....it's only $40 for now from Pulsar as an introductory price for customers who have previously bought those thermals. It goes up to $100 at the end of this month.
As for the returning to zero question, I had a customer who bought a Pulsar Trail XQ38 from me a couple weeks ago and I gave him the new QD mount with it. After zeroing his two rifles he moved the Trail back to his first rifle and he thought the zero was lost. He wasn't 100% sure what happened because he was still learning the scope menues and features so he decided to run a well thought out, very deliberate test to determine if the scope really returned to zero with the mount or not. I'm copy/pasting his email to me after his test. I think you can see from his comments below he put some serious thought and time into this.
My first test was to do a simple removal/reattach of the scope from my Rem 700 223. I set up at my place on my own range and first rechecked the scope's zero. The Rem 700 is defined in the scope as the "A" group gun profile. I shot the gun to double check it's zero and it was dead on at 75 yards. (This is sort of close for me but I can easily see the 8 inch square piece of tin foil that is stapled to the target). After checking the zero setting I carefully powered down the scope, unlatched the QD mount, removed the XQ38 and laid it on my shooting table. The scope was completely off the gun at this point. Next I connected the scope back on the Rem 700 picitanny rail, closed the QD mount clasp, powered up the scope, and fired a shot. I drove up to the target and it was dead center just like the previous zero-check shot. I had applied blue tape over the zeroing shot so as not to get confused about impacts. This was a good result as the scope was completely removed from the rifle, re-attached, and then fired. The POI did NOT change in this test.
Test two involved powering down the scope, removing it from the Rem 700, re-attaching it to my AR15 300 BLK rifle. The AR15 300 BLK was defined as gun group "B" in the scope. I had zeroed the 300 BLK about six days prior so I just powered the scope on, switched to gun group "B", and fired a shot from 75 yards. It hit the target dead center -- there was no POI change after moving the scope to the Rem 700 and moving it back the the AR15 300 BLK.
Test three involved powering the scope down, moving the scope from the AR15 300 BLK back to the Rem 700 223 and taking a shot. I made the move, powered the scope up, changed the gun profile to group "A", and fired a shot from 75 yards. The POI was dead center.
These tests prove to me that you CAN actually move the scope from gun to gun and maintain your zero setting via different gun profiles. This is a handy feature of the scope and I am very pleased.