I'm talking specific LPVO's...read more carefully.
Respectfully, I was working LPVO's on the streets when you were in highschool. Not a knock on your age; just a fact. Eye problems early on took me away from Aimpoints to the Short Dot in the mid 2000's. I was into them before this explosion and I CHALLENGE you to find someone who has spent more of his own $$$'s testing various LPVO's. Here's a biggy I wrote up some years ago:
https://www.lightfighter.net/topic/s...der-short-dots
The problem with the current LPVO "boom" is that most people who are getting into the game aren't optic savy. They just are happy that more mag means more better. I'm super critical of my optics. I actually take my stuff out and use them in the field and on call outs...even the expensive stuff.
As far as my resume:
10+ years LE...all but the first 9 months has been with SWAT. Nearly all of that time SWAT spent as sniper of which I've served as team leader for 3 years now.
I've been to 6 different sniper schools now.
I've been lead weapons (pistol, rifle, shotgun) instructor for my dept, team and adjunct at the local academy for nearly that entire time
I've done PRS in both gas gun and bolt at both large and small scale
I'm a wrench-turner gun geek that's been to no less than 20 factory armorer schools (HK 416, HK45, Accuracy International, Rem 700, Rem 870, Glock, Colt AR15, Colt 1911, etc).
I've been doing 2-3 OE classes on my own dime for the past 11 years with about 3 or 4 being DMR/scoped rifle.
Been into scoped semi-auto's since the only game in town was a 3x on a colt SP1 or a 4x Hensoldt on an HK91. Thus, when guys new to optics opine about FOV or eyebox, I laugh.
I've been around long enough in both the shooting world and forum world that everything I just said noted means nothing. I don't follow people. I don't care what LE does because (as you should know or will find out) 90% of LE don't care about guns. Same goes for .mil and many that do care use what's given to them. I gravitate to those that I know are as critical about this stuff as I am. I've been a student of the gun and I look/looked for others of the same mentality.
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