{"id":198,"date":"2018-12-03T05:36:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solatac.com\/home\/?p=198"},"modified":"2018-12-03T05:48:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:48:19","slug":"final-word-on-the-utg-3x-magnifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/03\/final-word-on-the-utg-3x-magnifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Word on the UTG 3x Magnifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally I bought this thing on a lark. I needed something to stick on my recently completed 10.5&#8243; AR Pistol. I saw this thing on Amazon and decided why not.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5859-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5859.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5859.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5859.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5859.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5859.jpg?w=1632&amp;ssl=1 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got about 200 rounds through the gun and under the optic so far.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? The magnifier is still in one piece and it still positively locks in both positions. I haven&#8217;t drop tested it or anything like that, but it will come. The QD mount is also surprisingly solid.<\/p>\n<p>Here comes the bad news. Its a 45.00 dollar optic. It&#8217;s heavy at 11.8 ounces, the glass has clear distortions that are especially noticeable beyond 100 yards.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5861-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you absolutely have to have a magnifier and have 45-50 bucks, go ahead and get one. Personally I&#8217;m gonna upgrade both the Red Dot and the Magnifier to Vortex&#8217;s on the gun early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom Line: If it&#8217;s all you can afford? Get one. It&#8217;s better than nothing. But I would not recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally I bought this thing on a lark. I needed something to stick on my recently completed 10.5&#8243; AR Pistol. I saw this thing on Amazon and decided why not. I&#8217;ve got about 200 rounds through the gun and under the optic so far. The good news? The magnifier is still in one piece and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-stuff","category-kit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solatac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_5925.jpg?fit=1554%2C1166&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdNYy6-3c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solatac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}