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Unertl Optical Company. Unertl Optical Company, Inc. was a manufacturer of telescopic sights in the United States from 1928 until 2008. They are known for their 10× fixed-power scopes that were used on the Marine Corps ' M40 rifle and made famous by Marine Corps Scout Sniper Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War.
approx. 700 (Nov. 2010) [1] Website. www.leupold.com. Leupold & Stevens, Inc. is an American manufacturer of telescopic sights, red dot sights, binoculars, rangefinders, spotting scopes, and eyewear located in Beaverton, Oregon, United States. The company, started in 1907, is on its fifth generation of family ownership. [2][3]
A telescopic sight, commonly called a scope informally, is an optical sighting device based on a refracting telescope. [1] It is equipped with some form of a referencing pattern – known as a reticle – mounted in a focally appropriate position in its optical system to provide an accurate point of aim.
The Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG) is a series of prismatic telescopic sights manufactured by Trijicon. The ACOG was originally designed to be used on the M16 rifle and M4 carbine, but Trijicon has also developed ACOG accessories for other firearms. Models provide fixed-power magnification levels from 1.25× to 6×. [1]
A US Marine extracts a fired cartridge from an M40A3 using a bolt-action mechanism. Bolt-action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by directly manipulating the bolt via a bolt handle, most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the firearm (as most users are right-handed). The majority of bolt-action firearms are rifles, but ...
US Marine with a M240G machine gun in the Persian Gulf, 2004. Initial engineering development of the AN/PVS-4 was undertaken by Optic Electronic Corporation of Dallas, Texas, in 1975 as a replacement for the Vietnam War era AN/PVS-2 Starlight Scope. In 1976, the first production contract was awarded for 47,074 units, and first deployed in 1978. [1]
The Accuracy International AWM sniper rifle is a variant of the British Accuracy International Arctic Warfare (AW) rifle that was the basis of a family of sniper rifles using the Arctic Warfare name. As such the design details of the AWM variant are similar to the ones found in the basic AW rifle system. Compared to the AW, the AWM has a longer ...
EuroOptic.com is a privately owned business started in the late 1990s that deals primarily in high-quality optics.This business' predominant sales channel is direct e-commerce via the company website, but EuroOptic also maintains a company presence on popular public channel stores including eBay, Amazon, and GunBroker.com.