https://www.alpharomeo15.org/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:29:42 +0000 MyBB https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-lasers Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:26:07 +0000 tommag]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-lasers I bought a streamlight tlr8ag and mounted it. I thought green was the answer, not knowing there's more to it than that. With overcast sky, I can only see the spot out to maybe 20 yards.
I can't return it in good conscience since there's nothing wrong with it so it can live on my Glock.
Oh well, at least I learned a little about them so the next time I get foolish with my credit card I'll do better.]]> I bought a streamlight tlr8ag and mounted it. I thought green was the answer, not knowing there's more to it than that. With overcast sky, I can only see the spot out to maybe 20 yards.
I can't return it in good conscience since there's nothing wrong with it so it can live on my Glock.
Oh well, at least I learned a little about them so the next time I get foolish with my credit card I'll do better.]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-ATN-X-Sight-4K-Pro-3-14 Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:58:46 +0000 olfart]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-ATN-X-Sight-4K-Pro-3-14
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.]]>
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.]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Scope-mount-troubles Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:07 +0000 srjdsmith]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Scope-mount-troubles
This year I noticed that the scope shifts back & forth on the picatinny rail by about 1/32 or 1/64” It doesn’t seem to destroy accuracy, but does it bother me? IMMENSELY!

Is the rail out of spec? The cross bolts on the scope rings? It’s a Vortex scope and the guy at my LGS that mounted it usually does good work. I re-torqued everything to 20 in-lbs

Help!! What do I do?]]>
This year I noticed that the scope shifts back & forth on the picatinny rail by about 1/32 or 1/64” It doesn’t seem to destroy accuracy, but does it bother me? IMMENSELY!

Is the rail out of spec? The cross bolts on the scope rings? It’s a Vortex scope and the guy at my LGS that mounted it usually does good work. I re-torqued everything to 20 in-lbs

Help!! What do I do?]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Monocular Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:03:58 +0000 srjdsmith]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Monocular


They’re not awesome. I’d like a monocular- the new ones zoom or focus one- handed. But I’d like not to have to remove my glasses. Suggestions?]]>


They’re not awesome. I’d like a monocular- the new ones zoom or focus one- handed. But I’d like not to have to remove my glasses. Suggestions?]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Primary-Arms-ACSS-Holosuns Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:55:34 +0000 hkriflenut_aka_sasquatch]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Primary-Arms-ACSS-Holosuns
A concerned parent who is law enforcement brought up the issue that I've never received formal active shooter response - and he was right, and it's something I've wanted to do, but typically those courses have been LE only. I'd reached out to some trainers who said they wouldn't train a security monkey (my term) - but found a local training outfit run by a Houston cop that said yes. So two HPD officers, one who spent time on the SWAT team, gave me 8 hours of private instruction. It was a good course, eye opening to some things, and I walked away wanting to do it again - just need to figure out finances (meaning getting the school to give me a training budget if possible, because training ain't cheap!)

During the course, I ran Glock simunition guns. The instructor brought three, which was good because we had failures with a couple. That gave me the opportunity to run two different sights - two different versions of sights I already own, those being the Holosun 507K, and the 509.  Right now I currently own a 507K, 509T, and EPS - all red, all multireticle versions.  The sights I got to use on his guns were a 507K in green, and a 509 Primary Arms edition with ACSS reticle.

I am frickin in love with the ACSS chevron. Did not use the huge training wheels ring, just the chevron. I loved it - so much easier for my eyes to acquire, and it doesn't seem to get in the way or draw the same attention as the circle reticles do, and it doesn't star burst with my astigmatic eyes like a dot-only does. When I did my part and applied good fundamentals of marksmanship - my hits were fast and accurate.

When that gun went down, I wound up running the green 507K - I've preferred green before on rifle dots, but that was before I moved to such a lush green property (going from Oregon to Texas, and finding the greens here more plentiful and vibrant was cool) I got away from green, because it disappeared.  What I found in the training scenarios was that I didn't visually process green nearly as easy as I did red against a human target - so I'm going to stick with red from now on.

I'm about to the point that I might put a couple of my sights up for sale, to fund the 509 ACSS to stick on my duty gun. It was simply that much more superior to the standard versions for me.]]>
A concerned parent who is law enforcement brought up the issue that I've never received formal active shooter response - and he was right, and it's something I've wanted to do, but typically those courses have been LE only. I'd reached out to some trainers who said they wouldn't train a security monkey (my term) - but found a local training outfit run by a Houston cop that said yes. So two HPD officers, one who spent time on the SWAT team, gave me 8 hours of private instruction. It was a good course, eye opening to some things, and I walked away wanting to do it again - just need to figure out finances (meaning getting the school to give me a training budget if possible, because training ain't cheap!)

During the course, I ran Glock simunition guns. The instructor brought three, which was good because we had failures with a couple. That gave me the opportunity to run two different sights - two different versions of sights I already own, those being the Holosun 507K, and the 509.  Right now I currently own a 507K, 509T, and EPS - all red, all multireticle versions.  The sights I got to use on his guns were a 507K in green, and a 509 Primary Arms edition with ACSS reticle.

I am frickin in love with the ACSS chevron. Did not use the huge training wheels ring, just the chevron. I loved it - so much easier for my eyes to acquire, and it doesn't seem to get in the way or draw the same attention as the circle reticles do, and it doesn't star burst with my astigmatic eyes like a dot-only does. When I did my part and applied good fundamentals of marksmanship - my hits were fast and accurate.

When that gun went down, I wound up running the green 507K - I've preferred green before on rifle dots, but that was before I moved to such a lush green property (going from Oregon to Texas, and finding the greens here more plentiful and vibrant was cool) I got away from green, because it disappeared.  What I found in the training scenarios was that I didn't visually process green nearly as easy as I did red against a human target - so I'm going to stick with red from now on.

I'm about to the point that I might put a couple of my sights up for sale, to fund the 509 ACSS to stick on my duty gun. It was simply that much more superior to the standard versions for me.]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Magnifier-and-Red-Dot-Combos Tue, 18 Jul 2023 02:02:25 +0000 Emptymag]]> https://www.alpharomeo15.org/Thread-Magnifier-and-Red-Dot-Combos A little while back I picked up a cheapo 1-4x20mm LPVO to try out and I like it - probably going to upgrade to a better brand at some point.
I have never handled/used a rife with a magnifier and I wasn't sure I would like it - even after watching a ton of videos I just wasn't sure, and I don't have the money to throw away on something that may not work out.
Why not try a budget magnifier the way I did with the LPVO? I started looking around some more. I was "this close" to buying the blem/open box versions on Monstrum's website when I saw that they were having a good deal on the combo for Prime day on Amazon. For $110 I got a brand new/unopened set and ended up paying just $8 more, and I get the lifetime warranty vs the 1 year warranty on the blems.

Monstrum Tactical Ghost 3x Prism Magnifier and Monstrum Tactical Ghost 1x20 Red Dot Sight














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I put the set on my 7.62x39 carbine. The lightweight, one-piece polymer lower/stock's weight savings are now negated by the chunky 3x magnifier.





]]> A little while back I picked up a cheapo 1-4x20mm LPVO to try out and I like it - probably going to upgrade to a better brand at some point.
I have never handled/used a rife with a magnifier and I wasn't sure I would like it - even after watching a ton of videos I just wasn't sure, and I don't have the money to throw away on something that may not work out.
Why not try a budget magnifier the way I did with the LPVO? I started looking around some more. I was "this close" to buying the blem/open box versions on Monstrum's website when I saw that they were having a good deal on the combo for Prime day on Amazon. For $110 I got a brand new/unopened set and ended up paying just $8 more, and I get the lifetime warranty vs the 1 year warranty on the blems.

Monstrum Tactical Ghost 3x Prism Magnifier and Monstrum Tactical Ghost 1x20 Red Dot Sight














Continued...

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I put the set on my 7.62x39 carbine. The lightweight, one-piece polymer lower/stock's weight savings are now negated by the chunky 3x magnifier.





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