Primary Arms SLx 3× FDE

[Racer Doug14]

Just received it. Glass is nice.

 

[Russ D]

It’s on my list. Looking forward to your range report.

 

[smdub]

I bought one of these recently (in black). It looks REALLY nice. Used it on the AR57 upper for now. The reviews on line are mostly glowing. Its often described as a 'mini ACOG'. Now, no one thinks its likely as tough as a real ACOG but its a fraction of the price too. I'll probably end up with more of them.

 

[calicojack]

I would like to see what these weigh - going to check the specs. I have a Vortex Sptifire prsim optic but it's kind of heavy.

 

[Racer Doug14]

I would like to see what these weigh - going to check the specs. I have a Vortex Sptifire prsim optic but it's kind of heavy.

I'll weigh mine when I get home. Hopefully I'll remember.

 

[lazarus]

I would like to see what these weigh - going to check the specs. I have a Vortex Sptifire prsim optic but it's kind of heavy.

Yeah, largely why I've been so interested. Claims very light. Seems nice and small. The couple pre-release reviews I read sounded very positive. Without the riser, it seems like the sort of thing I'd love on something like a lever gun for hunting. I mostly run a 3-9x40 at 3x in the deer woods anyway. I dial up the magnification occasionally. I've only one time done that when shooting a deer (and I turned it up to about 5x. I didn't NEED to. But it was nice).

Something like that prism in 2x if it had a generous eye box would be really nice on my 16" AR-15. I am just not a huge red dot fan. Despite LASIK, I still have a lot of point light source starburst going on (actually a little worse than pre-LASIK when all I had was horrible vision and mild astigmatism). It is okay if the light level of the optic is well balanced against the situation. But I find I need to adjust it a lot to get the sweet spot as light levels change. And not just "it is night" versus "it is day". Most it is either "the dot is too dim" or "the dot is too bright". With sometimes 1 setting that is just right.

It is usable if too bright, but it is annoying and my accuracy at range for sure suffers. An etched reticle, ideally with illumination, would be ideal (I have no issues with illuminated etched reticles). LPVOs are too big and heavy for what I want.

 

[trickg]

Interesting - specs say that it has a slightly better field of view than the ACOG, although it's 3x rather than 4x, but it also beats the Primary Arms Prism 3x Gen III, which is one that I have. That only has a field of view of 31.5' vs the 38' of the new version. Looks interesting.

I bought the Primar Arms 3x because of a torture test review I read here - I wonder if the new one is close to being that durable.

Pushing a Primary Arms 3X Compact Prism Scope to Its Absolute Limit

Recently, I got to test Primary Arms’ 3X Compact Prism Scope, though “torture” might be more accurate. What makes this

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[Racer Doug14]

8.6oz as it comes from PA. Although a postal scale I have shows 9.5oz, but this scale might be off.