This gun is a somewhat strange hybrid as well. Honestly, the only reason the higher magnification optic makes any sense in my context is it does double duty as a patrol rifle and sees fairly regular use alternating with a Tikka Tac A1 .308 as an overwatch/sniper rig covering an LE entry team. The additional magnification and larger objective/exit pupil make a non-negligible difference in PID (as compared to a 10x LPVO) in low light at a couple hundred yards. If it was not used in the latter capacity, an LPVO wins out almost every time just for the weight and 1x ability…and it’s not like the LPVO wouldn’t be viable at all even in my particular context; I’ll fully acknowledge there’s a part of me that just likes bigger glass.
That said, for me there’s honestly only about a 7 ounce difference between this rig and something like a Gen III razor, because I’d run an offset RDS regardless and generally prefer to have a bipod on anything that’s not a dedicated entry gun.
-Gun is a 14.5” BCM BFH ELW, which is a somewhat strange profile for this application but this barrel is pretty great for what it is; holds a reliable 1 MOA for 5 shots at 100 and helps with balance overall.
-Badger/Harris bipod
-Modlite OKW w/Unity Hot Button
-Vortex Viper PST Gen II (decent for what it is but it’s a placeholder until Leupold finally has Mark 5s back in stock…)
-Nightforce A496 mount
-Aimpoint H2 in an Arisaka mount
-Geissele SSA-E
-pinned Warcomp (Socom Mini II in NFA jail)
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