Ep. 429 | Vortex AMG® 1-10x24 — A New Tier of Optic is Born

Vortex Nation Podcast

Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

A new tier of optic is born. The Vortex AMG® 1-10x24 is the most-advanced, highest performing, feature rich, optically superior, LPVO we’ve ever built. Astonishingly lightweight and compact, it is a true engineering marvel. Tune in and listen to AMG team members Andy Haffemann and Connor McDermot talk through its pedigree, features, and capabilities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.8	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, my good friend Ryan Muckinherne, to my right, because across from us, we have Mr. Connor McDermott and Andy Hoffman.
0:27.3	Failed it.
0:28.4	From our AMG group.
0:31.2	And today is a new product alert, a standout new product alert this is a this is a really cool optic
0:39.7	it has a really cool story the amg group in my opinion you know i i consider it a a separate
0:47.0	division of vortex optics and some well just what's the amg. But you guys are here to talk about that.
0:55.6	So let's do that.
0:56.7	Let's start there.
0:57.8	Well, okay, let's announce what this new product is.
1:02.5	And then I want to go, please, go back in time and just talk about the AMG group origin and what it is.
1:11.4	And if you're watching on YouTube,
1:12.9	Ryan is holding up this absolutely glorious optic,
1:18.7	a feat of mechanical and optical prowess construction.
1:27.5	It's really short.
1:28.8	It is very short, yeah, yeah.
1:30.6	But that was the idea, right?
1:32.0	That was definitely the idea, yep.
1:33.6	We sought out to make the shortest best-performing LPVO on the market.
1:40.2	So, yeah, and this is where we ended, which I think we met the goal.
2:03.0	You guys definitely got there. What, Ryan? Well, maybe I should have asked this before the cameras were rolling. Can we talk about why we got here? Well, that's where I wanted to go. I want to talk about what is the AMG group, Ryan, and then my second bullet point on my printout, what is the origin story? Oh, yeah.
2:03.5	It says right there, those printouts.
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