10 New Rifle Scopes Worth a Look
It’s been a great year for rifle scope introductions, with at least three new price-point product lines hitting retailers over the last two month...
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Meprolight MPO Pro-F: Proof a Red Dot is a Great Fit for a Shotgun, Too
Like any good science, what started as one project led me to other discoveries. Early work with Mossberg’s 990 Aftershock non-NFA “pistol grip fire...
EOTECH’s Vudu 3-9x32 Represents a Disruptive New Optics Category
It’s not often that an optic breaks tradition enough to be called disruptive or novel. Generally, in analog (non-electronic) optics, we have produc...
Understanding Light Transmission
Several factors influence the amount of light that passes through an optic to your eye.
First light and last light are the magic times for most Nor...
Red Dots and Magnifiers: Making a Good Thing Even Better
In my view (pun intended), red dot optics — to include emitters, holographic, enclosed, plain dot, circle reticle, and green or red options — are i...
First Look: Vortex Crossfire HD rifle scopes
Today Vortex is updating its Crossfire II line of hunting-oriented rifle scopes with a new line called the Crossfire HD.
The new family will have...
Fifty Years of the Burris Fullfield
Over the past 50 years, American-made cars are mainly made in Mexico and Canada. Domestic beers rely on Old World recipes. And some proudly America...
Anatomy of an LPVO: Required Features for Your Next Low-Power Carbine Scope
The hottest category in magnified optics is the LPVO, which stands for Low Power Variable Optic. You know them by sight, if not by name. These are ...
Leupold Delta Point Pro Review
I took note of the Leupold DeltaPoint Pro (DPP) reflex red dot sight for several reasons when it arrived nearly 10 years ago.
The most prominent ...
EOTECH Vudu 5-25x50 FFP Review
If my ignorance of the impressive performance of EOTECH’s Vudu 5-25x50 rifle scope has been blissful, it’s also deprived me of years of experience ...
ZEROTECH TRACE H.A.L.O.
Everyone should be dubious of something that promises to do several tasks well versus a dedicated product.
The underlying concern is that compromi...
How To Pick An Entry-Level Thermal Scope
The hottest segment of the electro-optics market is thermals. Thermal weapon sights. Thermal viewers. And thermal clip-ons, which transform a dayli...
Red Dot Vs Green Dot
For hundreds of years, hunters, law enforcement, and recreational shooters relied on their gun’s iron sights to get on target and take the shot.
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