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Sam Alexander

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Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

I ended up putting it on top of the FNAR I sold to buy my G3.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

I kind of wish I'd held on to the optic because it would be useful right now.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

My second experience with Prism Optics was an Elcan.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

So I went from about as cheap as you could get back in the day to as expensive as you can get today.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

I did some work and then traded labor for an AR, my current AR, with a 1.5 to 6x Elcan sitting on top of it.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

And I was absolutely convinced this was going to be the holy grail of optics.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

And then I discovered that 1.5X really sucks.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

It is too awkward of a magnification range.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

It is.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

I would actually agree with that, because at least at 4X, or like with the 5X I had, you could do that binden, not biden aiming concept, binden aiming concept, essentially where you're bringing the rifle up, you're not using your, you know, at this point, the target's so close that you're...

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

Your sight picture is more or less blurry.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

So you're kind of your brain superimposing what your left eye sees with the right blur, you know, the, you know, the, the illuminated reticle in the right eye and boom, you can shoot shit up close with 1.5 X. My brain was, my eyeballs were fighting each other for dominance.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

It was really annoying.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

Even my slightly squint my left eye to make my right eye do all the work wasn't working with that 1.5x.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

I wish it was a 1-4.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

Because if it was a 1-4 L can, I probably would have hung on to it.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

All right.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

So that moves us on to my current little prism I have, which I tip around to put a bow on it.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

This is what I'm going to be mounting in lieu of that one to 10 LPVO on my AK, which is the primary arms micro 3X.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
AK-47 Radio Show 023 โ€“ Overview of Optical Options

I kind of wish it was the 5X, but the 3X is what I already got.