Recent content by koshkin

I am not afraid of your wallet. You should see the hate mail I get from wives and girlfriends when I talk people into buying Tangents. There is a reason I maintain two fake addresses... (oh, and you should spend some time with the new 7-35x56 Tangent. I had it side by side with the 8-40x ZCO...

Hensoldt Spotter is an excellent spotter for shooters. In terms of pure image quality, the best from Howa and Swaro are better. However, Hensoldt, whether in the Spotter 60 or Spotter 45 guise, is still very good optically and has really large depth of field. For scanning and for watching...

I fully intend to review the AMG 1-10x24 if/when it becomes publicly available as a standalone product. It may a little while before that. Vortex has some military orders to fill. While a short scope is admittedly hard to build, I think you will pleasantly surprised with how good the AMG is...

I do not think the Eotech 1-10x28 and Vortex 1-10x24 are closely related designs. Razor Gen3 1-10x24 design, to the best of my knowledge. is specific to Vortex and is mostly designed by Vortex. The design EOTech uses is LOW's and a couple of other people use its different variants, for example...

These can be mounted in any 34mm rings. I have one sitting in two normal 34mm rings on a 10/22 since that puts the scope a little lower. Both rings are in front of the turret. The mount is set up so that you can put short rail sections at several different positions. I do not recall offhand...

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Correct. Elcan is owned by Raytheon and they are primarily focused on the military world. Civilian world is not a priority for them. SAI and Tangent Theta are ATI's optics brands, and they are interested in both military and civilian applications. For a variety of obvious reasons, I can not...

I suspect my opinion might be a little unpopular, but optically Hensoldt was always a little overrated. I tested several of them over the years. 3-12x56 and 4-16x56 were quite good, but not the best. The eyepieces were excellent. Turrets tracked but the feel was subpar. Reticles were very...

Having designed a few reticles here and there, the litmus test is pretty straightforward: if 50% of the people who see it are reasonably OK with it, it is likely to a successful design. We all have different preferences and we all project our own preferences onto others when we discuss...

Got it. Thank You. I've done a couple over the years for scopes of these types and I like to add some sort of a high visibility feature for low power. I think the first one I did with a similar scope in mind was the design that ended up in the 3-18x50 Optika6. It has a few good things going...

I've never designed a reticle for Steiner/Burris. They do their own designs. I will be involved with other MPVO reticles that are coming up, so I'll be able to offer some feedback for those (different brands). ILya

Every once in a while I catch a company with the scopes not matching public specs. I point it out. Some companies fix the specs. Some companies mumble something and ignore it completely. Drives me up the wall, but noone else cares all that much. ILya

That's par for the course. Having seen the scope in question, I thought that the reticle, while a little thin on low power, should work fine with illumination. In terms of size, the reticle is probably a little better suited to their 3-18x50 model (and will be available in that scope as well)...

There have been a few OIS binos and while they have their fan base, they have not exactly set the world on fire. They tend to be quite heavy and while you can indeed get higher magnification out of them, the objectives tend to be small (there are some exceptions to that). With battery powered...

Hunting market is MUCH bigger than competition and long range. They overlap somewhat, but in terms of market size, it is not close. ILya