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Which Optic to Buy For My Rifle?

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Lucas and Brandon provide their thoughts to the heavily-debated topic of rifle optic selection. And no, we don’t hate LPVOs.

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00:00 It’s Call of Duty, Calm Down…
02:11 Optic Types
05:12 Trijicon ACOG
09:46 LPVOs
17:51 Red Dots + Magnifiers
24:46 How To Pick One
29:57 Final Thoughts
35:48 OG BCM

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26 COMMENTS

  1. Red dots are great.. if you don't have an astigmatism. They also suck for.people who have bad vision too. Then you have to go back to a scope. Acogs are great.. but they are fixed, and that gets Hella annoying, especially doing close-up shots. LPVOs are great. Don't have to worry about astigmatism. You have more versatility to make long shots but can still work very well close up. My LPVO didn't change zero 1-6. It's a PA 1×6 acss. I have dropped it, slammed it, bashed it, and it's on a 16" .308 Saint Victor. I've never had any issues. Even out at 800 yards. (I live in northern Arizona, tons of public shooting places with long ranges). I genuinely believe that LPVOs are the best overall option to put on a rifle with a 16" barrel or longer. Maximize your rifles effectiveness and don't be limited by your own body.

  2. I like the way you set the information forward. It makes it obvious what the viewer wants without pushing something on them. Like for me, a prism optic is obvious because of the Arizona moon dust, and longer ranges in such desert. A lpvo would work too, if I'm willing to baby the optic. And the RDS/holographic with a magnifier isn't right for my area, but doesn't make it bad.

  3. I thought that LPVOs were dead for combat rifles and reserved for DMRs. I would have never thought of jumping out of a car with an LPVO engaging targets. But hey you learn something new every day.

  4. When you know where the targets are ie you've placed the targets and rehearsed as this muppet has done then it looks great. Optics in CQB are useless narrows your field of vision and li its your reactions but hey ho cowboy guy here looks good

  5. You didn't seem to include a prism red dot. Was this an oversight or are they simply not worth the money or worse they are simply inferior to all other optics? Great video, very informative and educational. Thank you.

  6. First ar15 (pws mk116 mod 1). Have an astigmatism, tried looking through a holosun red dot and it was awful for me. Any problem with the LED ACOGs for us astigmatism folks? Haven't been able to actually look through one myself.

  7. ACOG Rmr has been my new peak. RMR sits high and comfy for CQB, Acog is what I used in the marines and hitting out to 500 no problem. For a general setup that tries to flex where it can, i haven’t found better.

  8. Oh good lord, so there we were civis driving our Toyotas, wearing our plate carriers helmets etc. next thing we’re in a massive gunfight. Seems to me if you wanted to wear the patch (flag) should have checked out the recruiting office. Oh wait there was a war on that wasn’t imaginary. I get it….

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