I am a huge Arken fan owning 5 optics!! But as my shooting improves I am finding that the resolution of the VPR reticle is not fine enough at .5mil increments. Has a .25mil version been considered?
You have to be very careful in making a new reticle. There are so many aspects of the reticle that are a patented part, if you get close, there can be fall out. A LOT of research and design work has to go in, long before something can be sent out.
Not sure how or why reticles are allowed to be patented, but I get it, $$. I assume that the "standard" reticle would be .2mil and anything other than that could fall under unique and non-obvious innovations for the purpose of a patent kind of like a ruler.
Keep doing the good work Team Arken.. you deliver an amazing product regardless of my thoughts on reticles ;)
@ dkrat I was thinking along the lines of a Leupold PR2 clone type of reticle for a future EP5, something with more resolution but not overly busy. I know I can just buy a Leupold to get a PR2 style reticle, I have 3, but to be honest I hate the turrets on the Mk5/Mk4s and believe that Arken has an industry leading turret for NRL22/22PRS.
The MIL version already has .5, and then breaks down into .1 and .2 increments at the edges of the VPR reticle stadia lines. We are exploring the full .2 increment reticle now, but we do not have a release date as of yet.
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You have to be very careful in making a new reticle. There are so many aspects of the reticle that are a patented part, if you get close, there can be fall out. A LOT of research and design work has to go in, long before something can be sent out.
@ dkrat I was thinking along the lines of a Leupold PR2 clone type of reticle for a future EP5, something with more resolution but not overly busy. I know I can just buy a Leupold to get a PR2 style reticle, I have 3, but to be honest I hate the turrets on the Mk5/Mk4s and believe that Arken has an industry leading turret for NRL22/22PRS.
The MIL version already has .5, and then breaks down into .1 and .2 increments at the edges of the VPR reticle stadia lines. We are exploring the full .2 increment reticle now, but we do not have a release date as of yet.