American manufacturing is better and more accessible than ever. Our collective knowledge and understanding of the AR-15 platforms has resulted in mid-market rifles in 2021 with more accuracy potential than the premiums of the past. The modern AR-15 is the most accurate and reliable mass-produced rifle in all of human history. In fact, there’s a strong argument to be made that ARs are now mechanically outclassing the optics being made for them. That’s not to say the optics industry is lagging or resting on its laurels — that’s simply not true.
What’s happening is that the mechanical accuracy of ARs is evolving in a specific way that’ll necessitate a new class of scope optimized for them. And it’s not that ARs are getting more accurate — it’s that those more accurate rifles are getting shorter. During recent testing of a prototype 5.56mm barrel, we made an 880-yard hit on steel with a 12.5-inch barrel, while running a 1-10x Low-Powerer Variable Optic (LPVO). Similarly, while testing an 11.5-inch AR chambered in 6mm ARC, we hit at 1,000 yards and only stopped there because the range didn’t go any farther. In that instance, we also used a 1-10x.
What we realized in both cases is that, in the 800-yard-plus arena, it wasn’t the barrel or the ammo holding us back — it was having just-barely-enough magnification to
