First, A Little
Background. Let Me Say That I Love The Scope. It Is A Good Concept. I Have Been
Shooting Sniper Rifles For 17 Years, And Finding A Good Day/night Scope Has
Always Been A Problem. I Could Have Really Used Your Riflescope In
Afghanistan.
We Are Currently Using PVS-6 And PVS-14 NVGs To Assault
With. We Use The PVS-10 Day/night Scope On Our Bolt-action Sniper Rifles. We
Don't Use The Bolt Action Rifles Much, Because We Mostly Work In A
Non-permissive Environment, Unlike SWAT Snipers, Who Are Surrounded By Good
Guys. We Prefer Semi-auto Gas Guns In Case The Situation Goes Bad, And You Have
To Do A Lot Of Shooting To Get Out. I Use An SR-25, Made By Knight Armament. It
Is 7.62mm, And Looks Like An M-16 On Steroids. My Spotter Carries An SPR, Which
Is Basically An Acurrized 5.56mm M-16. On My SR-25, I Use The Standard Leopold
VariX That Came With The Gun. Then, When The Sun Starts To Go Down, I Pull Off
The Day Scope, And Put On A PVS-17. I Torque It With The Same 65inch Pound
Wrench And It Holds A Zero. The PVS-17 Was Not Designed To Be Used On A Sniper
Rifle. It Just Has A Red Dot In The Middle And No Magnification. But, Its Gen
III Tube Does Illuminate Very Well. I Zero It For 200 Meters, And Use Hold-overs
And Hold-unders To Engage All Targets Out To 400meters. We Were Using Simrad
KN-200s That Clipped On The Day Scope But They Didn't Hold A Zero And Didn't
Illuminate Well Enough To ID The Target. It's One Thing To Just Shoot Steel
Targets In The Dark On A Rifle Range, But Our Rules Of Engagement Dictate
Hostile Act Or Hostile Intent. We Need Night Scopes That Will Let Us ID Targets
At 300m. In Afghanistan, While Providing Cover For Our Assaulters, I Watched A
Sentry Walk Around The Target Area For 20 Minutes. With The PVS-17, I Could Make
Out His Beard, Eyes, And The AK Magazine Sticking Our Of The Rifle He Had Slung
Over His Shoulder, At 210 Meters. A Guy With A PVS-10 Would Not Have Been Able
To ID Him. My Point Is That, We Really Need Scopes That Let Us See In The Dark
Well. I Wish I Had Found Your Company Before Afghanistan
What Do I Think
About Smaller, Lighter 4-12x80? I Think That Is The Kind Of Scope We've Been
Screaming For, For Years. That Would Be Perfect For Our SR-25s And Our SPRs. If
You Put A Mil-dot Reticle And A 7.62 BDC On It, I Know I Can Sell It To Higher.
Hell, I'll Buy One Out Of My Own Pocket To Put On My SR-25, If They Don't. Keep
Me Up To Date On How It Is Coming. We Need A Good Day/night Sight Bad. I Hate
Having To Carry Two Sights With Me?
Again, I Love The Scope. Prior
To Finding Your Scope, My .50 Cal Rifle Had No Night Capability. So It Was
Basically Worthless. It Sat Out Many Missions In Afghanistan Because It Had No
Night Capability. We Own The Dark. Here In Operation Iraqi Freedom, My .50 Cal
Sniper Rifle Has Proven To Be A Force Multiplier. If Not For ATN And Your Scope,
My Rifle Would Still Be In A Box.
First, A Little
Background. Let Me Say That I Love The Scope. It Is A Good Concept. I Have Been
Shooting Sniper Rifles For 17 Years, And Finding A Good Day/night Scope Has
Always Been A Problem. I Could Have Really Used Your Riflescope In
Afghanistan.
What Do I Think
About Smaller, Lighter 4-12x80? I Think That Is The Kind Of Scope We've Been
Screaming For, For Years. That Would Be Perfect For Our SR-25s And Our SPRs. If
You Put A Mil-dot Reticle And A 7.62 BDC On It, I Know I Can Sell It To Higher.
Hell, I'll Buy One Out Of My Own Pocket To Put On My SR-25, If They Don't. Keep
Me Up To Date On How It Is Coming. We Need A Good Day/night Sight Bad. I Hate
Having To Carry Two Sights With Me?