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Today we are looking at the first commercial red dot optic, and its successors. In 1975, Aimpoint released the Aimpoint Electronic, a collimating optic using an LED as a light source. It was intended for the hunting market, where an unmagnified optic that could be used with both eyes open offered a significant improvement over traditional magnified optics for short-ra...


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A whole lot of people have used red dot sights, but how many actually understand how they work? Let’s see if we can fix that today…

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The Yugoslav M92 rifle is most often compared to the Soviet AKS-74U “Krinkov” – it is a compact, folding-stock version of Zastava’s M70 AK, just as the 74U was the compact version of the AK-74 series. However, the M92 was actually not made for a particular military requirement but rather for commercial export sales. While it is based on the 7.62x39mm M70 family of rif...


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Today I had a chance to dig through no less than one hundred FR-F2 snipers brought in by Navy Arms. I found a number of interesting and unusual things in the process, including a number of three-digit serial numbered very early production examples and some renumbered guns. We’ll also be looking at the Scrome J8, the modern picatinny scope mounts for the FR-F2, and thi...


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The first Israeli military sniper rifles were German K98k snipers obtained by the nascent Israeli armed forces in the late 1940s. These were used in Israel’s independence war, and served well. When the IDF decided to adopt the 7.62mm NATO cartridge and converted its Mauser rifles to that caliber using new barrels, the best-shooting examples were help aside for use as ...


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