Dude, you are as wordy as I am! Kindred spirits I guess. I’m going to answer your comments/ questions from top to bottom without quoting them, which would take up a lot more space and time to compose my answer.
1. Trijicon Accupoint has amazing glass. To get similar glass quality you would need to step up to our Japanese-made Platinum 1-8x series which is a $1300 scope (and worth every penny btw). The glass on our Chinese-made 1-6x scopes is really good for the price point, but there is no shortcutting glass quality, you have to pay exponentially more to get increased clarity.
2. To get the 1x magnification right for your eyes will require careful adjustment of the diopter ring. We have guys call customer service regularly complaining about “fish eye” at 1x with our LPVOs and pretty much every time they haven’t touched the diopter ring, which ships from us fully closed, turned all the way to the right until it stops. Once we walk them through the process of initial diopter setup, almost all those guys are well satisfied.
3. I’m a huge “eyebox” guy myself. I would rather have a fast sight with less magnification than a slow sight with more magnification. For me it’s all about time on target and how long it takes for me to set up and let fly with the smartest shot I can take. It doesn’t matter if I’m shooting a red dot at 5 yards or a 30x Platinum precision scope at 800 yards, the concept is the same. I wish someone could quantify “eyebox” and put a number on it somehow, but for now the closest we come is exit pupil. Here are the specs on the LPVOs being discussed here:
PA:
1-6x ACSS 300BLK second focal plane: 9mm at 1x, 4mm at 6x
1-6x ACSS 300BLK first focal plane “Raptor”: 9mm at 1x, 4mm at 6x
1-8x ACSS Griffin MIL Platinum: 11.7mm at 1x, 3mm at 8x
Trijicon:
1-6x Accupoint: 12mm at 1x, 4.1 mm at 6x.
So, judging just by exit pupil, for the money our stuff is no slouch—a 9mm exit pupil at 1x is nothing to scoff at, but you can see that your extra money is buying extra speed at 1x. For a guy who is more interested in eyebox at maximum magnification, hey maybe it doesn’t matter that much, all these scopes are around 4mm at 6x no matter what. But for a guy who prizes 1x “flatness” and wants true red-dot speed up close, the extra money spent on better glass and a wider exit pupil is much more justified.
SO, that leads us to the ultimate questions:
4. There are no plans for a dedicated 7.62x39 / 300 BLK reticle in the Platinum series that I am aware of.
5. For a dedicated subsonic gun, the Griffin MIL reticle would be ultra-fast up close yet maximize your effective range well beyond what any regular BDC could hope to accomplish. Our regular ACSS reticle gives you 225 yards worth of BDC for subsonics before the bullet drops clean out of the reticle. But the Griffin MIL reticle in the 1-8x Platinum extends down to 15 MIL. I fired up StrelokPro and given a fairly standard setup, if you crunched your own numbers and were willing to sight in a couple inches high at 100 yards, you could probably just barely get to 400 yards of drop at the bottom of the reticle.
So I think for you priorities the Griffin MIL holds real advantages, if you are willing to pay for them. If they aren’t worth paying 3x the money for, the Raptor is a hugely successful product for us that many shooters agree is an unbeatable value for the money spent, compared to the other 1-6x FFP scopes currently on the market.