Neat idea for an AR scope...

I like the idea, and the price tag. Now, whether or not it will hold up to mild abuse, we need to hear from people who have had this for a little while. Good find!
 
A quick search shows its connected to the airsoft market, but that's not a downer as much as it used to be. Price point has a lot to do with that. The design is busy, adding fixed sights to it is meh. Most tactical shooters use a set of cowitness irons, adding sights on top creates even more offset compensation shooting at the closer ranges.

What battery? Looks like a button cell under one of those caps, which makes it potentially expensive for it's shorter life. No statement of how long it runs on a battery, either. State of the art is about one year constant on, and does it have auto off after how many hours?

It does have it's own mount, which cuts the installed cost.

We like things over built, run it thru a carbine course and plenty of us will pay attention to the results. We can accept some weirdness like the knobs working backwards at the price point. If it starts blinking out or goes down, it won't do.
 
Well, putting aside the high likelihood it was made in China with budget parts...

1. You need a good cheekweld to use iron sights. How are you going to get a good cheekweld with the sights on top of the scope and still be able to use the scope (which also requires a consistent; but different cheekweld than the irons)?

2. What is the battery life like?

Overall, I'd think most people would get more function out of a variable power shotgun scope than this. It looks like the primary market for this is for people who want to look military; but don't have the same practical requirements and have a minimal budget.
 
pretty much what Bart said minus the question about battery life and with the added comment that the sight radius is less than your average compact pistol, I would wager that even if you could get a good cheek weld with it, the sights would be far too close together to be of any use to the shooter. you may as well just use the 4x crosshairs.
 
I wouldn't trust it to much abuse.

If you want a high quality 4x optic with iron sights on top, get a Trijicon TA01NSN.

Gonna run $700 or more, but that scope is a tank.

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Cracks me up when people assume a scope has to be bad because it doesnt say Leupold,Zeiss,Nikon........blah-blah-blah
 
Cracks me up when people assume a scope has to be bad because it doesnt say Leupold,Zeiss,Nikon........blah-blah-blah
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this cracks me up because people usually presume all my scopes are junk because they DO say Nikon on them :D
 
Te Anau said:
Cracks me up when people assume a scope has to be bad because it doesnt say Leupold,Zeiss,Nikon........
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None of my scopes say that on the side... having said that, when I see a $90 optic with these features, I think "Self, the only place they can make something that cheap is in China." Shortly after that I think of the regular occurence over the past 10 years of various Chinese optics not holding zero, breaking or otherwise failing to function in less-than-demanding environments while I was out shooting.

So I do tend to presume Chinese optic = crap. I am sure there are exceptions to that; I just haven't come across a whole lot of them myself.
 
while perusing the OP's link to the scope i found a Boo-Boo:
The revolutionary Trijicon ACOG™ (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsite)

i wonder if they meant to say Gunsight ??
 
Cracks me up when people assume a scope has to be bad because it doesnt say Leupold,Zeiss,Nikon........blah-blah-blah
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Sorry, what makes me think the scope has to be crap is because its being sold on sportsmansguide, its from AIM Sports, its $90, and its an ACOG/RDS knockoff with a friggin fiber optic sight on the top of it.

Buy a quality RDS and use a flip-up BUIS to co-witness or in case the RDS fails.
 
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