Optic Advancements, Rangefinders, and Vortex Edge | Gun Talk Nation
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
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Everything you wanted to know about optics, and then some! Gun Talk's Ryan Gresham sits down with Vortex Optics' Jimmy Hamilton to talk sporting optics from the range to the field, including the advancements over the last few decades, Vortex's LPVO's pushing to 1-10x with the Gen III Razor, competition vs tactical, the Vortex Edge training facility, new rangefinders, and more. This Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Leupold, Sig Sauer, Hodgdon Powder Company, Armscor/Rock Island Armory, Silencer Central, and Vortex Optics.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Gun Talk Nation, we have Jimmy Hamilton from Vortex Optics. Vortex does pretty much |
| 0:05.8 | everything when it comes to optics, so we're going to answer a lot of questions that you have. |
| 0:15.0 | Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Lupold, Sig Sauer, Hodgden, the Gunpowder people, |
| 0:20.6 | Arms Corps, and Silence for Central, Silence Delivered. |
| 0:25.2 | Hey, welcome into Gun Talk Nation. Today on Gun Talk Nation, we're talking optics. How do you |
| 0:30.8 | hit anything with that optics? I don't know. But we've got Jimmy Hamilton from Vortex Optics on |
| 0:36.1 | the line. Jimmy, welcome in. Okay, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. So Jimmy Vortex, I mean, |
| 0:42.8 | for those who've lived in a cave, explain who you guys are, what you do. You guys kind of cover |
| 0:48.6 | the waterfront when it comes to optics. Yeah, we do. So Vortex Optics, we have, we're a sporting |
| 0:55.0 | optics manufacturer. So if it goes on a gun or you use it out in the field, anything like that, |
| 1:01.5 | chances are we probably make something along those lines. But yeah, everything from rifle scopes, |
| 1:08.0 | binoculars, rangefinder, spotting scopes, red dots, and a whole mess of accessories for all of |
| 1:14.8 | those things as well. So we are a brand in the space, and we've been a brand in the space |
| 1:22.4 | since pretty much just about the beginning of the 2000s. So going on, I think we're actually |
| 1:29.9 | hitting our 20 year anniversary this year. Well, that's a good segue because something I was |
| 1:34.6 | starting to mention before we started the actual record of this is how optics have changed over |
| 1:40.7 | the years. And I think people who grew up with an old school, three to nine power, or if you |
| 1:47.0 | really want to go old school, a fixed four power or something like that. Now the optics keep |
| 1:53.1 | keep getting more advanced. And sometimes I think us shooters are trying to keep up with how advanced |
| 1:58.0 | the optics are and keep our learning curve up. I mean, what are some of the things that you guys |
| 2:04.0 | hear from customers or see maybe in the changes in what's taken place over 20 years with optics? |
| 2:11.4 | Boy, I mean, optics have really changed a lot. I think that they were fairly stagnant for a |
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