Magnifying Glass

Let's get the triggering part out of the way first...

Okay, on to the topic at hand: This possible time traveler sighting...

This dude was pretty forward thinking. 

This would have been filmed in early '08, maybe even late '07, and homie's got a low-power variable optic on his carbine. We were barely out of Peak EOTech in '08. Full-size Aimpoints were the go-to carbine topper, sometimes with a flip-up magnifier. The Aimpoint Micro had barely been out a year.

In retrospect, the only thing that keeps me from thinking this guy in the Magpul Dynamics video was some kind of John Titor time traveler from 2019 or so is the fact that he was running a 1911. 

Five or six years later, running an LPVO on a general purpose carbine was still pretty leading edge. But these days it seems like a lot of clueful people do.

I'm just some writer, but I can take a hint.

(I've decided to leave the old Leupold on this gun and save the Viper for the carbine I build to replace the old BCM middie with the full-length rail farm and gov't profile barrel.)

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