Sam Alexander

So that's like, to me, that's their biggest failure mechanism is the fact that you have a, your optic is more or less just friction mounted in the mount.

Also the mount being a weak point because the,

Arrow makes those really lightweight mounts that our buddy Vince has seen bend on the range.

This mount, this Swamp Fox mount, this one came with, for some reason, on my...

ar it mounts up crooked so somewhere the spec between the rail on that upper and the mount don't agree with each other um and then when i was doing drop tests with the other gideon optic that i shot that one's rail bent i'm on the drop tests i'd also bent the optic housing but you know neither here nor there

The only downside I see between that is if that material wears out over time or like squishes and compresses.

And then you, I don't know.

That's one of those things where if it doesn't call to have extra crap in between the mountain, the optic, why put it there?

yeah i was just thinking about the extra friction yeah you would um hey so i like lpvos because i think for me magnification is mandatory that comes with living in colorado where you know we have nice open sight lines here living in pennsylvania a little bit different anywhere in the midwest with lots of trees would change that metric for me um

So here's where I get to talk about being a night vision nerd.

So, on a rifle like this, a lot of LPVOs will have a night vision settings.

They're utterly useless.

You cannot use night vision with an LPVO.

It is fucking impossible.

End of story.

Anyone who says it can be done, that's like, okay, technically, yes, you can line up your 40mm tube, which is 3 inches off your face, with the eye relief perfectly on your LPVO.

But realistically, it's not going to happen.

Offset dots at a 45 degree, I don't like for passive aiming as much as anything towards the 12 o'clock because you want to get your head up over the gun more so that you are not going to clonk your tubes into the back of your tube.

So this hostile engagement ring has it at like a really high 45 degree.

It works, but it's at a really weird spot for my face.