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11 years 8 months ago #43715 by Charlie
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I got an e-mail from these guys yesterday, and I'm trying hard to ignore it. Here's the thing:


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The web page about it is here.

www.atncorp.com/x-sight-night-vision-rif...t+1&utm_medium=email

What do you think? Is this something I should be interested in, or is it junk?

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11 years 8 months ago #43719 by Siscowet
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Charlie, you had to do this to me didn't you. I thought I was pretty set and didn't need anything.
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11 years 8 months ago #43723 by OleCowboy
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At a price that does not sound STUPID!!!!, will check this out at the upcoming NRA show...

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11 years 8 months ago #43726 by Charlie
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It seems like they're focusing on the lower end of the Tracking Point market.

I don't know how useful all that stuff is when you're just trying to hit a target. Wi-fi? Compass? Videos? Can I play my iPod through it????

I think about that kind of stuff because I once bought a Yamaha O1-V digital audio mixer, the fanciest thing on the market at the time. It could do just about anything with any number of audio signals simultaneously, but I spent more time reading the dang manual than I did using the mixer! It had multiple redundant nested obscure menus, and nothing about it was intuitive. Eventually I sold the thing and got a Mackie 1604 analog mixer and have been happy with it ever since.

But I sure would like to play with one of those X-Sight things.

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11 years 8 months ago #43728 by OleCowboy
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Charlie wrote: It seems like they're focusing on the lower end of the Tracking Point market.

I don't know how useful all that stuff is when you're just trying to hit a target. Wi-fi? Compass? Videos? Can I play my iPod through it????

I think about that kind of stuff because I once bought a Yamaha O1-V digital audio mixer, the fanciest thing on the market at the time. It could do just about anything with any number of audio signals simultaneously, but I spent more time reading the dang manual than I did using the mixer! It had multiple redundant nested obscure menus, and nothing about it was intuitive. Eventually I sold the thing and got a Mackie 1604 analog mixer and have been happy with it ever since.

But I sure would like to play with one of those X-Sight things.

When you go hunting or camping, do you need to bring your Tuxedo jacket? Probably not, but it would be advisable to bring a jacket by that same token, have a leatherman Skeltool CX and I DO NOT leave home without it, use it almost every day for something...yet I have a shoe box full of Leatherman's and Swiss Army knives, one has 50 or 60 tools on it and my other leatherman's have about 20 or something. NEVER carried any of those fist sized tool boxes that took longer to find the flat blade than it took to grab a dime out of my pocket and do the job.

Are the extras valuable, dunno, but some may become that way????

Then you bring up what us software engineers called the 'user interface'. And THAT is the downfall of a LOT of products. Like video tape recorders and a ton of other things like websites you cannot find your way around so you shop someplace else.

I will say its interesting and my bet is the jury is out...

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11 years 8 months ago #43731 by Charlie
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OleCowboy wrote: Then you bring up what us software engineers called the 'user interface'. And THAT is the downfall of a LOT of products.


Amen! When I run across something like that I usually turn it over to my son. He has the patience of a saint when it comes to figuring stuff out.

I see that this post is in new member introductions, and sorry about that. I would have swore I put it in optics!

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11 years 8 months ago #43732 by jtallen83
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Will it still function at -10 degrees after a 100 yard low crawl in the dark????? For me THAT is the measure of a sight. I'll pass on all the extra buttons.

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11 years 8 months ago #43734 by OleCowboy
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jtallen83 wrote: Will it still function at -10 degrees after a 100 yard low crawl in the dark????? For me THAT is the measure of a sight. I'll pass on all the extra buttons.


YEP!

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11 years 8 months ago #43736 by Libertarian623
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All that awesomeness for 749.00. Yes it can do a lot but I have alot of reservations about the scopes longevity. If this is a 100% digital image then I say it might be worth investing in , but if this is a cheap conventional glass lense scope with all the gizmo's there is no way this thing will survive very long. I would pony up twice the money for something that was MILSPEC with these features.

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11 years 8 months ago #43738 by Libertarian623
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Weel did a little reading and it is 100% digital image. Looks like it might be worth looking at.
JT- You hit the nail on the head.

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