Frag Out! Magazine
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CR123 everywhere? Of course, it has great features, but batter- ies are harder to find and more expensive. AAA powered SPARC AR works non-stop for up to 300 hours on maximum brightness setting and 5000 hours at minimal brightness. Enough. From the ocular lens side there are place two adjusting buttons in rubber, sealed covers. Simple – UP and DOWN. That's it, nothing more, no useless inventions. Sim- ple and effective, the way it sup- posed to be from the beginning. Under the electronics compart- ment there is MIL-STD-1913 rail mount with clamp and adjustable screw. Simple and effective. How many times you will take the sight off after zeroing? Using space between red dot and the rail as a location for bat- tery, electronics and buttons is Vortex SPARC AR is compact red dot sight with 74 mm length, so it is a little longer than Micro T1 (62 mm). Weight is 212 grams. Case was made from aircraft grade aluminum has additional protective rubber outershell that also has mounted ocular and ob- jective lens covers (after they are both open, they can be fasten to- gether so they will not obscure field of view). Lenses are covered with anti-reflex, anti-scratch and anti-fog coating, additionally the sight is nitrogen purged and has quality rubber gaskets, so it is well sealed, resistant for fogging red dot sight (unlike few other sights). Outside the case there is a bat- tery compartment for single AAA battery. The CR123 battery would force to make whole thing higher (and it is high already) but those power cells offer greater param- eters than standard batteries. On the other hand, we can ask our- selves a question – do we need Nowadays, not many people shoot rifles using only iron sights so basically everybody is looking for fancy optoelectronic sight. Those who have a lot of money, buy from leading brands such as Aimpoint or EOTech, and those who have less are in great need to work something out because there are tons of cheaper sights on the market. Unfortunately, in most cases "cheap" means also "average" (not to say bad right away) what many shooters and among them few of my friends had the opportunity to experience. Tempted by rela- tively small price and other bells and whistles like different colors of the dot, few types of reticles to choose from, sci-fi look of the sight itself, they buy them and then whining begins. They whine that their new purchase does not hold zero, after some time it turns down by itself or work as it wants to and those fancy gadgets turns out to be completely useless. How many times you can change color of the dot or its shape? Most impor- tantly, WHY would you want to do that? Turns out that for few bucks more you can purchase one of the few very good sights, addi- tionally for sure branded and with good add-ons. One of them is Vortex SPARC AR. This sight is classic 1x22 type red dot, put into the case that by the shape reminds Aimpoint T1 just a bit. AR letters suggest that it is designated for AR15 rifles, but it can be mounted on other weapon platforms, yet – it is not fully universal sight. www.fragoutmag.com