Alright I get asked all the time Carl what scope do you recommend I get do you like
this brand versus this brand do I need this magnification do I need this
honestly you need to get optics that match your mission everybody's
particular situation is different if all you're doing is home defense very very
close in ranges than a simple aim point or eo-tech like in this case red dot
sight just fine zero magnification very little parallax basically where we put
that red dot that's where you're going to hit all right great great capability
however it doesn't have the max ocation that are needed for some missions now
let's say you have a mission where your situation says okay I can get by with a
red dot but I also need on occasion I need some magnification that case I
would recommend that you would go with a variable power scope in this case this
is a this one's made by Horus vision I can dial it from one power so basically
I'm looking through the same as that EOTech or that aimpoint single red dot
but I can also dial it all the way up to seven power magnification right gives me
the magnification needed right now you notice I did not say it goes all the way
down to three power or two power for AR for close in
you want to maintain that capability of being able to go all the way down to a
true one power scope one power magnification it doesn't do that they're
probably not the right scope for you somebody trying to set up an AR I
recommend that they go straight to a one power alright then they can come up from
there alright but let's say you're running that red
dot but once in a great while you need magnification behind this particular
EOtech here this is a 3x magnifier alright while I can looking through those that
red dot I'm good then for long range shots all I
do is I flip that 3x magnifier over behind it and now I'm looking through
this 3x magnifier then through my zeros optic what this does is even though I've
added 3x magnification I've not changed the zero as a weapon this weapon is
still zeroed I've not changed anything at all where if I taken this off and put
another scope on with more magnification I potentially would have lost a zero
good capability however it's still very limited
it's either 1x or it's 3x there's no variable in between so I kind of tend to
lean towards one that has variable power 1x through either 5 to 7 one of my
personal favorites is this particular one is made by sworsky
right it is a true basically 1 to 6 power so magnification wise
it's not as strong as some of the other ones out there however what I really
like about this scope is the illuminated reticle now a lot of scopes that have an
illuminated reticle what I really like about the svorski is it has a two
position now I can set it to to the left and then change brightness either dimmer
or brighter alright go back to Center is off and then I can go back to the right
and I can set brighter or dimmer so it allows me to save two set things so what
does that matter Carl? Where that matters is I come off the Humvee I'm
heading to the building I'm outside it's a bright day very very bright outside
I need that red dot in this scope to be very very bright now as I go through
that initial breach point on the building and I'm in a dimly lit building
that bright dot would be too bright it would overwhelm my field of view I
wouldn't be able see anything through the scope I reach
out my finger flip it to the right now I've already had preset it to a very dim
setting to where now it works perfect inside the shootout now there are some
drawbacks to this scope it's a second focal plane in other words when I change
magnification the MIL reticle and it does not maintain the same new relation
to what the target has where the horse visions our first focal plane and the
clusters will maintain same ratio aspect as the target to the front one drawback
but other than I think this is an awesome scope now high-powered variable
scope if you're running a larger calibre AR in particular this one here is a JP
Enterprise 308 you'll notice I have a larger variable power scope on it
a great allows you to reach out low in 8lr doesn't start running out of gas two
seven eight hundred meters your scope allows you to easily reach out to there
and identify friend or foe even at those distances however close in I can't dial
this scope down to through one power we're going to have to fall back on the
iron sight all right so that's basically it you want to pick the optics that
matches your mission