Re: Sniper's Hide Exclusive First Look, Leupold DAGR
Not all dudes running this system may want the T1 directly to the 12. Me personally I would rather see the little bugger off to the side or in an offset "oh shit" mount. Not only that but I would like to be able to glance up and see what I've dialed as a reminder. While a dedicated variable such as the 1-8x is awesome, there are plenty of situations were the end user simply won't be able to say "CAR! GAME OFF!" to dial his mag down to engage closer targets quickly. Offset Irons or RDS fill this need.
While I haven't heard anything horrible about the deltapoint, the T1 is and has been a vastly superior product to almost all other RDS sight systems on the market. I've utter FUCK mine over class's, training, deployments, more training, another class and its going strong. Only shifted zero once, dialed 8 clicks back and it was GTG. Huh. Good mounts help as well. Plus, its all been on one batter so far. A battery life of 5 years means I can leave it on the ENTIRE deployment on medium setting without any issues.
The beauty of the H58/Tremor2 for those that are familiar with it is windage is pretty much "set and forget". Zero it, lock it down and never touch it again. Rest assured, those going in to harms way with a Horus get some of the best training on it's use and exploitation. From the guys that developed it no less. Elevation, depending on the magnification I want to take the shot at will be dialed in 5, 10, and 15 mil chunks as needed if I desire to shoot further at a higher mag. Simple. For constant erratic targets such as muhj darting around a battlefield and/or the fluctuating wind your gonna see in city's and mountains, I can speak to the effectiveness of holding vs. taking the time to dial.
Remember, this was not made for civilians, but built to fill a specific requirement requested by NSW/Crane.
Really, the only large difference between this and the vanilla scope is low-pro turrets (the normal 3-18 has zero stop/locking turrets), Tremor2, and a reversed parallax knob. The lack of magnification can be attributed to the targeted end user, IE Police or .mil who have forward mounted NF (such as the PVS-26) thus making it not needed. You can see the intent behind this in the design. The short, blunt shape of the Objective Lens shows this in the planning considerations so you don't have a LOOOONG scope like an S&B 5-25 taking up rail space. Plus it makes it lighter, simpler, and more compact, something that overall is more advantageous.
Not all dudes running this system may want the T1 directly to the 12. Me personally I would rather see the little bugger off to the side or in an offset "oh shit" mount. Not only that but I would like to be able to glance up and see what I've dialed as a reminder. While a dedicated variable such as the 1-8x is awesome, there are plenty of situations were the end user simply won't be able to say "CAR! GAME OFF!" to dial his mag down to engage closer targets quickly. Offset Irons or RDS fill this need.
While I haven't heard anything horrible about the deltapoint, the T1 is and has been a vastly superior product to almost all other RDS sight systems on the market. I've utter FUCK mine over class's, training, deployments, more training, another class and its going strong. Only shifted zero once, dialed 8 clicks back and it was GTG. Huh. Good mounts help as well. Plus, its all been on one batter so far. A battery life of 5 years means I can leave it on the ENTIRE deployment on medium setting without any issues.
The beauty of the H58/Tremor2 for those that are familiar with it is windage is pretty much "set and forget". Zero it, lock it down and never touch it again. Rest assured, those going in to harms way with a Horus get some of the best training on it's use and exploitation. From the guys that developed it no less. Elevation, depending on the magnification I want to take the shot at will be dialed in 5, 10, and 15 mil chunks as needed if I desire to shoot further at a higher mag. Simple. For constant erratic targets such as muhj darting around a battlefield and/or the fluctuating wind your gonna see in city's and mountains, I can speak to the effectiveness of holding vs. taking the time to dial.
Remember, this was not made for civilians, but built to fill a specific requirement requested by NSW/Crane.
Really, the only large difference between this and the vanilla scope is low-pro turrets (the normal 3-18 has zero stop/locking turrets), Tremor2, and a reversed parallax knob. The lack of magnification can be attributed to the targeted end user, IE Police or .mil who have forward mounted NF (such as the PVS-26) thus making it not needed. You can see the intent behind this in the design. The short, blunt shape of the Objective Lens shows this in the planning considerations so you don't have a LOOOONG scope like an S&B 5-25 taking up rail space. Plus it makes it lighter, simpler, and more compact, something that overall is more advantageous.
