First off it's truly, undeniably, absolutely Aimpoint daylight bright. Today was a sunny and clear fall day and the dot was more than bright enough on the second dimmest daylight setting. At its brightest the dot was visible clearly when looking about 15 20 deg off from straight into the sun.
I can shoot it as fast as I can a red dot on the baseline timed drills I do to track progress. By that I mean single shots and pairs from low ready to a 3x5 card at 5 yards and transitions from one 9" plate to another 3 yds apart 7 yds away.
The reticle is only a couple hundreds of a sec slower without illumination. Super usable unless it's very dark. Its central thickness is for me the perfect compromise between outright speed and precision for the uses this scope is meant for.
Shooting USPSA targets at 100 and 160 yds on 1x was very easy, getting torso hits quickly from prone with and without illumination.
The turrets aren't ultra crisp. And you know what? Who cares. You zero the center of the reticle at your distance of choice, cap them, and leave them alone. This isn't a precision rifle scope. I don't know WTF is the point of using this aspect of the scope to compare it to similar scopes.
The illumination dial is also not super crisp. It does feel like it belongs on the dash of a BMW or Mercedes Benz and unless you have gorilla hands you can clearly feel it go from off to on.
I can't say much about the BDC because I haven't been to a place far enough to use it yet. If you want to know how to use it and the moa that each stadia corresponds to, google "Steiner reticle guide" and save/print it.
For me it's a winner and it soundly beats the Trijicon Accupower 1-4X with the red segmented circle BDC reticle which I also own.
It's also the LPVO that convinced me to replace the reflex sight on a carbine.
I can shoot it as fast as I can a red dot on the baseline timed drills I do to track progress. By that I mean single shots and pairs from low ready to a 3x5 card at 5 yards and transitions from one 9" plate to another 3 yds apart 7 yds away.
The reticle is only a couple hundreds of a sec slower without illumination. Super usable unless it's very dark. Its central thickness is for me the perfect compromise between outright speed and precision for the uses this scope is meant for.
Shooting USPSA targets at 100 and 160 yds on 1x was very easy, getting torso hits quickly from prone with and without illumination.
The turrets aren't ultra crisp. And you know what? Who cares. You zero the center of the reticle at your distance of choice, cap them, and leave them alone. This isn't a precision rifle scope. I don't know WTF is the point of using this aspect of the scope to compare it to similar scopes.
The illumination dial is also not super crisp. It does feel like it belongs on the dash of a BMW or Mercedes Benz and unless you have gorilla hands you can clearly feel it go from off to on.
I can't say much about the BDC because I haven't been to a place far enough to use it yet. If you want to know how to use it and the moa that each stadia corresponds to, google "Steiner reticle guide" and save/print it.
For me it's a winner and it soundly beats the Trijicon Accupower 1-4X with the red segmented circle BDC reticle which I also own.
It's also the LPVO that convinced me to replace the reflex sight on a carbine.
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