howdy guys and gals. I'm Kyle Broderick. welcome to the social regressive. today
we're out here at a field and we are going to be testing the brand new Falcon
s8i the s8i has been around for a little while but I call this one brand
new because they put a new reticle in it this is an illuminated kind of version
of their b20 reticle I think they're calling this to b22 I so what this
thing does is it has milliradian holds you know up-down left-right and then it
includes in the center a great big red just an MOA dot and a diamond sort of
shape so this is set up not only for working at very close range but at
longer range as well and that is going to pair really well with the whole setup
of the scope overall you've probably seen this kind of thing a lot the this
scope that has basically no objective lens at the other end you see these
things in three gun which is I think kind of where these were spawned it's
the first time I ever saw them and you see people putting these on their ARs
so that they can you know kind of have a flexible shooting platform but I think
in a lot of cases the this type of scope has kind of gone wrong a lot of these
have reticles that I have not found interesting at all they just don't seem
to really be set up for the sort of work that these were actually designed to do
which is being able to engage a target that's really really close up like you
know basically within touching distance all the way out to some of the longer
stuff and this is this one is just special it's a 1-8X so you get lots
of flexibility in the zoom that's a massive zoom ratio so this one
especially should be set up very well for kind of short medium out to longer
range targets to test this today we're gonna be shooting 75 grain Hornady boat
tail hollow points in my hand load i took the the can off the end just
because it's going to make things much easier to hold this thing is gonna be
kind of barrel heavy as it is has a little bit of a thicker h-bar barrel on
the end here so yeah we're just shooting 223 and if you'll see over my shoulder
here I have some targets out at various ranges the first one is going to be 25
yards then we have 50 yards the one way out in
the shade in tactical cardboard Brown that one is at 250 yards and then way
way way back there if you look past that that little crosshair target down on the
ground you're going to see a white steel silhouette target so what we're going to
do is we're gonna have a point system we're gonna kind of time this and I'm
gonna be shooting with my father-in-law we're gonna kind of compete at this so
we're gonna get two shots at each target if we take the shot while standing
that's worth five points if we take this shot while sitting or kneeling that's
worth four points and then three points for a prone shot I don't know how all
this is going to add up I just kind of came up with that this morning so I'll
have to come back and actually tell you what the scores would be or if the
scores even matter the real point though is to test this thing out and see how it
works when we're kind of shuffling around between 1x at these close targets
all the way up to eight and then afterward we'll kind of do a post-mortem
and we'll talk about what it was like to shoot the scope and some of the features
on here some of them are not quite evident just by looking at it but this
has some really neat tricks
are you seeing her right-to-left wind
was that second one he hit - I didn't hear it
okay clear
just over the left shoulder there you go nice head okay all right here we go
they're switching back and forth all right here we go
left or right okay I've learned a couple things so I'm gonna try changing things
up just a little bit all right all right here we go
unsafe
all right Center your wind oh no way it's lifts right now aim left edge the
challenge is over yeah I think I need to leave that in the shooting challenge is
over and it did take me a little while to kind of get used to things and get
moving a little bit quicker that's usually my problem I'm really kind of
slow with everything that I do which is probably why I shoot pro in a lot but it
was still a whole lot of fun let me talk a little bit about the setup on the
rifle as we shot it today this is a Rock River Arms lar-15 car a4 and 223 has a
223 wilde chamber in there and this is pretty much what came from the factory
just a couple little changes it started out a very accurate rifle it still
continues to be as long as I hand load correctly but yeah back here we just
have the typical a4 stock or whatever up here this is just a quad rail I'd like
to swap this out sometime I could really tell doing some of the shorter range
shooting that this would have benefited from one of those really long skinny
rails you can hold on to way out there I know they can get kind of tired holding
a rail really far out but if you have to shoot really quickly and steadily I
found that it really does work so I might be doing a mod on that a little
bit in the future magpul afg and just a little utg bipod up front here we have a
yhm muzzle break it's also the attachment for the suppressor if I want
to put that on there and this thing has turned out to be really effective I've
been just shocked by this thing I'm used to shooting with the suppressor on or
you know just with a birdcage yeah this is the first time that I've
shot with just the muzzle brake attached and I am loving it this new model the
the old one had it was pretty ineffective it had these little holes
drilled through it and just didn't really have that kind of chamber area to
you know to kind of pick up a lot of gasses and kind of move the rifle
forward this one works just great you can see that it has a whole lot of real
estate in there a whole lot of volume so this thing was very functional and
standing off to the side when my father-in-law was shooting it was I got
this huge wave of air coming in so it must be doing a good job let's see the
scope itself we were both really impressed with how it performed today
and it really does that job that I was talking about where you want to be able
to like in this case you know kind of defend a homestead against everything
from you know a creature or you know some baddie or whatever that's close up
to your house all the way out to the edge of your property this actually will
do the trick we found that out this was perfectly up to the task of hitting the
this 425 yard target as well as that that the 25 and the 50 rolled back on 1x
now this is one of the funky things about this style of optic when you're
going when you're taking a magnified optic and you're rolling it back to 1x
especially when you have a fixed parallax like this does this is fixed at
a hundred yards everything closer than a hundred yards is going to get this crazy
curvature to it it's going to get this massive barrel distortion and this does
have that but it's only if you're really thinking about it in terms of actual
shooting it just didn't even pop into my head at all I didn't even notice I was
just getting on target and shooting and that's something that's going to affect
I think every scope of the type you're gonna get that barrel distortion if
you're closer than it's fixed parallax and really I was expecting to maybe be
missing that parallax adjustment since this is kind of a higher magnification
one all the way up to eight but you know really I don't miss it I think that it
worked just fine and in general you've probably heard that anything up to 9 X
maybe 10 x you don't need parallax adjust so yeah not really necessary the
amount that I have it in today this is a Wii
ever this is their SPR mountain if I remember correctly this has some nice
thumb nuts here on the other side and so it's you know kind of a quick-detach rig
works really well and it only took me four shots I think to get this thing
zeroed so again this is everything that I've come to expect from Falcon they
make really nice optics everything always tracks really well in my Falcons
on the other turrets or in the reticle itself today was no exception this
really is every bit as good a scope as the m14, M18, M18 plus that I've
reviewed in the past this is every bit as good all it does has just come up
with a new form factor and yeah it really works let's talk about features
and form factor on this this is a 1-8X24 millimeter scope and with such a
small objective you probably assume that it's not going to collect all that much
light and you'll be right compared to the M18 Plus which does a phenomenal
job at dusk and down into night I compared the two side-by-side and yes
this one could not collect as much light if you want to be able to pick up more
details if it is starting to get a bit dark on you roll it back to 1x and then
you're gonna be able to take as much light as this thing will you know be
able to suck through that objective lens the weight on this is quite nice and
that's one of the reasons why we did some off hand shooting today normally I
do prone stuff normally my rifles are heavy normally the scopes are heavy but
at 17 ounces this is quite doable on an off hand rifle this felt very
comfortable to shoot today the turrets and reticle are both mrad based so
they're going to work in concert really well together it is second focal plane
so it's going to put the reticle back here and it's going to measure true at
that full 8x as you're dialed back to one and this is one of the things that
I'm going to talk about when I do a full series where I'm talking about what I
think about optics I think that second focal plane is perfect because at 1x
I'm not thinking about various drop values I'm close enough that it doesn't
really matter and if I'm at you know shooting at something that's further off
I'm not gonna be dialed at 1x I'm gonna be all the way up on 8 that's when it's
going to measure true and that's when it really matters so I think this is just a
brilliant design the turrets each measure 30 milliradians and you direct
that's up-down left-right and in today's shooting we did use both the turrets and
we used the reticle all by itself so I did a couple of strings where I was just
shooting using only the reticle not touching any of the dials and then I did
some where I was using the dials for the further shots and in both cases there
doesn't seem to be any issue both of them track reliably thanks for watching
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