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- Feb 26, 2019
I bought one at a garage sale back in '07, in a box full of 10-22 and S&W Model 59-- magazines, OEM S&W revolver grips, and some assorted cheap airgun + 22 scopes. The whole lot was $20; just a few years later I got a grip of cash for those magazines, so I threw in the scopes + grips just to be rid of them.I bought one of those years ago because I just like obsolete tech and they work pretty well...when you have enough ambient light. Completely useless for night shooting and some of the more dim indoor ranges. Great outdoors during the daytime though.
But I kept that vintage red-dot because it was retro & functioned well enough, and I had a CO2 pellet-pistol that looked like a Star Wars blaster with it mounted on top. It was rad even mounted on the bottom laser/flashlight rail, plus whenever I shot the pistol I heard blaster noises in my head.
At some point I took it off & gave the pistol away, then totally forgot about the thing until Ian mentioned them; so I located it in storage, mostly to make sure I wasn't being mandela'd about actually owning one. Then I promptly forgot about it again.... until I noticed a few being sold recently for stupid prices.
But I still have the thing since I've always had an odd nostalgic attachment to it, regardless of how autistic the asking-prices get.
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