Re: TGR SHOT SHOW REPORT: TRIJICON TARS 3-15x50 FFP
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: glock24</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yes Frank, it is confusing. The ACOG is a fixed power scope with an adjustable prism housing. The TARS is a variable powered, seemingly traditional telescope. Thicker tubes and lens don't mean anything without mechanical strength and repeatability.
Maybe you could elaborate on why their erector system is unlike anything you've ever seen.
I was at SHOT. I handled the scope. I stopped listening when the rep told me they pelted the scope with 12 gauge buckshot, and then confirmed that it still held zero. Color me skeptical.
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You guys just don't seem to understand the concept of prototyping and early development of a product.
If you never pulled the caps off, you can't even begin to understand. I know the guys from Trijicon and have worked with them in the past... they are as straight up no bullshit as it comes.
Having been in the room for more than in hour, I was given a detailed view of the optic. Not a "look" on the floor. For them to say something isn't working on the floor but they will have it, well you have it get it, those are the only scopes of that type in existence.
In fact they spent so much time with me, one of the sales guys finally knocked on the door to tell us he had the room reserved for 9AM and it was 9:30.
A lot of the weigh comes from the internals. Take the Premier, there was and has been issues with the wall thickness and the parallax not working if you overtightened or went beyond 15in lbs with some rings. They noted that and increased the wall thickness. The turrets are unlike anything I have seen in their bulk and design. Hence the weight.
ACOGs are known for their durability, they wanted the same durability so they were consistent with the trijicon name.
I get it, it's expensive, its heavy, but I will tell you this. Last year when I saw the "Beast" from NF, the Prototype was built with Rochester Glass and the Schott rep was leaving when I entered. Jeff Huber straight up said, there was no way they could reach the $3500 price point of the full blown Beast if they used the Rochester. Economically it was only viable for prototyping... Now take a complete US Designed and made scope and add that US glass, what do you expect... this is playing with the laws, this is exceeding them.
What happens is, people are upset it is beyond their disposable price range and immediately hate on it. Well when you start to see S&B prices reaching $3800+ especially the Horus models, don't wonder, just hate.