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    RECOIL ICONIC: TRIJICON ACOG

    Sep 27, 2022 3 minutes

    This is the first of the RECOIL ICONIC Series. These shorts highlight, celebrate, and discuss guns, gear, and accessories that have stood the test of time and are emblematic of entire categories — those that represent a paradigm shift and influence all those that follow.

    This article is about magnified combat optics, specifically the Trijicon ACOG (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight). There isn’t a magnified optic in the history of the world that has seen more combat use, ever, than the ACOG.

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