LPVO’s

[Downtown “Funky Stuff” Malone🍆]

Anyone in/near Palm Coast interested in hitting the range to evaluate LPVOs?

 

[Downtown “Funky Stuff” Malone🍆]

https://www.eurooptic.com/march-f-t...jeczg7gMn0ABGNu_Wi1YkEaJPPOtXwncSN9dZAiBUsBmM

Holly hell!! Looks amazing on paper but good grief!

 

[Totentanz]

You know what is a deceptively good optic, probably the best bang for the buck? Don't laugh: the SWFA Super Sniper. Originally branded under Tasco (yes, THAT Tasco, of low-grade/almost garbage stuff), Navy NSW trailed a 10X scope that was a great optic. Now under SWFA. I have used their 10X mil-dot scope for years on a mid Rem 700 and honestly, it was just as good (I said what I said) as a Leupold Mark 4 10X. I have no experience with their LPVOs, though.

I have a couple of their 1-4x24 scopes. Very underrated (depending on who you ask - they have a pretty solid reputation in certain circles, and are largely ignored outside of them), and dollar for dollar very good scopes. While I haven't spent them same level of time with them as Vortex and Trijicon, they're between the Strike Eagle and Accupoint in terms of glass clarity.

Don't sleep on them.

 

[Downtown “Funky Stuff” Malone🍆]

PSA has the Strike Eagle 1-8 FFP on sale for 399 as of 20260218

 

[Downtown “Funky Stuff” Malone🍆]

Almost done.

 

[Downtown “Funky Stuff” Malone🍆]

when deciding between FFP and SFP for a 5.56 AR, what factors do you use to choose?
Same question regarding MRAD and MOA.

 

[Devildoc]

For LVPO? I never drank the kool aid that FFP was so awesome. It's fine, really it boils down to what you trained with and get comfortable with. I think it matters a little more a long range optic, but with anything under 600m or so I can do holdovers on, I couldn't care less.

 

[Box]

Not a fan of FFP - not on an AR platform and not on my hunting rifles.

Then again - with improvements in quality and design, LVPO isn't all that "low" anymore.
An 8x LVPO has become the norm. It wasn't that long ago that 10x was the gold standard for a tactical sniper scope and "low power" meant 1x-4x
For the past 50 some odd years, the most common scope in the deer woods was some variant of a 3x-9x

In fact - there is probably a good argument to be made that you could just go ahead put a GOOD long range precision scope on most AR platform guns these days with an off-set RMR for most shots out to a hundred yards. (I intentionally say YARDS because many of the countries that are hung up on meters dont let their citizens own military calibers or AR platform rifles anyway)
...so there's that