I bought one last week, spent 3 rainy days playing with it in the house, and finally mounted it on a rifle. First impression was not great. It didn't seem to want to turn on, even after charging overnight. Contacted the company, and a nice young lady talked me through holding the power button down for 30 seconds to reset it. No joy. Try another 30 seconds. OK, got light in the screen. I thanked the young lady and went about reading the book and playing with the scope. To begin with, it is NOTHING like a normal scope. There are no turrets to adjust, all electronic.
I looked out the window with it and adjusted the focus the best I could. At best, it's just not as sharp as I'm accustomed to seeing through an all-glass scope. But that's to be expected, as I'm looking at a tiny computer screen with limited pixels. The 4k HD moniker they stuck on it suckered me into believing it might be almost as good as glass. Nope.
Testing its night vision capability, I took it out on the back porch at bedtime and scanned the goat pens with it. There was faint moonlight through thin clouds, but all I could see was snow on the screen... like watching TV when the station goes off the air. No recognizable image, just black and white lines and dots on the screen. OK, so much for using it in available darkness. It's going to require the use of the huge IR illuminator that came with it (but I didn't have two 123 batteries to put in it). I swung it toward my security camera, thinking the IR light source from that camera might help. Nope. Gonna take a humongous amount of IR.
Today I took it out to my 100 yd range and spent the first hour cutting small trees, limbs and weeds and getting my table set up. Satisfied that I could see the target, I started the "One Shot Zero" process, reading step by step from the book. By the time I was ready to load one round to test my setup, the sweat was rolling big time. I set my bipod and sandbag to give me the elevation I needed, settled in and loaded. At 3X magnification, the center of the target was smaller than the dot in the middle of the crosshairs, so I zoomed to 14X. I carefully squeezed off the first shot. No way I could see the hole with the scope, so I drove down to the target to check it out. 11:00 o'clock high. I stuck my homegrown 1" spotter disk in the hole and went back to the bench.
The "one shot zero" setting uses two sets of crosshairs, one white and one red, superimposed on each other. While holding the rifle steady with the white crosshairs on the center of the target (where they were when I fired), I navigated the sight's menu to move the red crosshairs to my black spotter at the hole. Satisfied that everything was according to Hoyle, I told it "Save and Exit". Time for the second shot, theoretically to affirm the corrections I had just made. Four o'clock about 2" from center. Rinse and repeat the above process for the new spot and try again. One o'clock about 3" out.
I'm not sure I could have gotten it to the center with two boxes of ammo, as each correction sent it too far in the right direction. I even tried moving the red crosshairs halfway between the white crosshairs and the marked hole, still no joy. After 10 rounds and a gallon of sweat, I called a halt to the frustration and came back to the house for lunch.
After lunch I spent an hour removing the scope from the rifle and carefully packing it back in the box for its trip back to the store.
So, I’m all in favor of SBR’s not being an NFA issue. And it’s too late for my ears, but suppressors might save my granddaughter’s hearing and what’s left of my son’s. I have never wanted to spend the $200 and try to set up a trust, etc.
But, here’s my problem: I want my AR pistols to remain pistols. I don’t them- with or without arm braces -to become SBR’s. If they are considered a rifle, I can’t use them for pistol deer season. It’s all fine for rifles with barrels shorter than 16” to be legal and for suppressors to not need a tax stamp. But I want my AR pistols to still be considered to be pistols.
[GOA News] URGENT: This is a Monumental Moment for the SHORT Act
Senator Roger Marshall, the lead co-sponsor of the SHORT Act, just gave GOA kudos for leading the fight for your Second Amendment rights — no compromise. That’s right. GOA’s relentless grassroots pressure helped secure a massive win in the House: the Hearing Protection Act, which guts parts of the NFA, was added to President Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill. That’s …<br/> <a class="postReadMore" href="https://www.gunowners.org/na061325/">Read more<i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a>
[FPC News] Federal Silencer Laws Are Unconstitutional, Argues Fifth Circuit Brief in
<p><strong>NEW ORLEANS </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">(June </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">12</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2025) – Today, attorneys for George Peterson have filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals responding to the federal government’s latest filing in </span><a href="https://www.firearmspolicy.org/peterson"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">United States v. George Peterson</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an FPC-backed criminal case challenging the federal government’s regulation of suppressors through unconstitutional registration and taxation requirements. </span></p>
