Originally Posted by
SomeOtherGuy
Yes, yes it is. 3-4x prism sights still fill a niche when you want something small, light and rugged, but need some magnification. The TA11 in particular still seems like a good optic for some uses.
You keep thinking that, anything from China will break on you at a bad time.
Haven't used it but have seen one, and yes it's really big and heavy. I can't think of any common use where it makes more sense than a conventional scope of some kind. Maybe for military use, on a machinegun, its durability is a good tradeoff for everything else.
Steiner and Burris, which are part of the same company (Beretta), offer some 5x prism sights that claim to be made in Germany and the USA respectively that are not outrageously big. But they aren't cheap and I can't see a real reason to buy those vs. a quality 1-6x.
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