Jul 15, 2026 · 26 min · 10 segments
Despite the fact that he is known hater of magnified rifle scopes, after his most recent Africa trip Caleb is really thinking about putting an LPVO on his 45-70, as there were a couple of times where…
Keith FinchHostSo, and also, there was a bit of a faff online a couple of weeks ago about how, like, LPVOs aren't relevant for modern combat.
Now, if, if I recall the genesis of that conversation, it was someone who has never killed anything with a rifle, like people, deer, or anything like that, mm, offering opinions on what he thought was best for rifles for killing things, right? That's-
Yes, and I, I will give a tiny asterisk to that, in that, okay, if, if you run multi-gun or something, and your game is not improved by the addition of the LPVO, I can understand like, hey, I don't gain a benefit from this.
But then extending that to the concept of there is never any benefit for that is wild.
So let's talk about, so the genesis for this conversation is, uh, I, uh, again, I, I, I just came back a week or so a- well, two weeks now by the time this comes out-
Um, my handgun was rocking an Aimpoint, uh, Acro P2, which I killed a couple of really nice trophy animals with that.
And if you'd like to read a review of that, there's one on my Substack, and just Google Caleb Giddings Substack, and that shit'll pop right up.
So, and also, there was a bit of a faff online a couple of weeks ago about how, like, LPVOs aren't relevant for modern combat.
Now, if, if I recall the genesis of that conversation, it was someone who has never killed anything with a rifle, like people, deer, or anything like that, mm, offering opinions on what he thought was best for rifles for killing things, right? That's-
Yes, and I, I will give a tiny asterisk to that, in that, okay, if, if you run multi-gun or something, and your game is not improved by the addition of the LPVO, I can understand like, hey, I don't gain a benefit from this.
But then extending that to the concept of there is never any benefit for that is wild.
So let's talk about, so the genesis for this conversation is, uh, I, uh, again, I, I, I just came back a week or so a- well, two weeks now by the time this comes out-
Um, my handgun was rocking an Aimpoint, uh, Acro P2, which I killed a couple of really nice trophy animals with that.
And if you'd like to read a review of that, there's one on my Substack, and just Google Caleb Giddings Substack, and that shit'll pop right up.
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