WTF 'scope' is this?

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Posted: 11/18/2012 1:33:05 PM EDT

I was reading this article today about a 'sniper' in Syria and the pic through the sight made me do a

. WTF kind of reticle is on this scope?

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Posted: 11/18/2012 1:40:56 PM EDT

[#1]

Beats me. It's interesting though.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:42:45 PM EDT

[#2]

No idea but its neat looking. Would guess its a shop though.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:44:11 PM EDT

[#3]

Video game screen shot if you ask me.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:44:20 PM EDT

[#4]

a photoshopped one.

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Posted: 11/18/2012 1:45:32 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Video game screen shot if you ask me.

yup

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:46:38 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Video game screen shot if you ask me.

yup

Agreed

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:46:47 PM EDT

[#7]

Looks like almost no magnification.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:47:52 PM EDT

[#8]

Magnification looks a little weak, LOL.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:49:23 PM EDT

[#9]

is that not a RPG optic?

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:49:36 PM EDT

[#10]

looks like a video game....I have never seen that before...maybe it is real

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:50:57 PM EDT

[#11]

Looks kinda fake IMO.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:54:43 PM EDT

[#12]

I can't figure out what the crap around the crosshairs is supposed to be.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:57:38 PM EDT

[#13]

It sort-of looks like this halo reticle (as in halo, the video game).

I just buzzed through the Standard Reticle Pattern Book and saw nothing like it.

Posted: 11/18/2012 1:58:15 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
I can't figure out what the crap around the crosshairs is supposed to be.

That's what flashes red if you get a 'hit'

Posted: 11/18/2012 2:02:38 PM EDT

[#15]

A busy reticle that doesn't range or compute width or height. Fake.

Posted: 11/18/2012 2:03:02 PM EDT

[#16]

from the photo essay the Atlantic published recently of the syrian civil war. there was a thread about it a while back, gimme a min to find it.

edit:
there ya go, bottom of the article, someone ID'd the reticle in the original thread where this was posted.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/

Posted: 11/18/2012 2:04:41 PM EDT

[#17]

Fuckin' tag.

Posted: 11/18/2012 2:06:22 PM EDT

[#18]

Looks broken to me.

Posted: 11/18/2012 2:08:11 PM EDT

[#19]

Doesn't look like a sniper rifle to me. Maybe a PKM or Dshka?

Posted: 11/18/2012 2:15:17 PM EDT

[#20]

Is it me or does it look too far to the left in relation to the barrel?

Posted: 11/18/2012 2:15:35 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
is that not a RPG optic?

Posted: 11/18/2012 4:00:39 PM EDT

[#22]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/

I read through all that and did not find any explanation. Could you post the relevant bits; I'd actually rather like to know what the heck scope the original shot is from!

Posted: 11/18/2012 4:13:42 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
from the photo essay the Atlantic published recently of the syrian civil war. there was a thread about it a while back, gimme a min to find it.

edit:
there ya go, bottom of the article, someone ID'd the reticle in the original thread where this was posted.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/

So, you couldn't cut & paste it? Did it occur to you that others might make comments and bury the Id?

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:11:57 AM EDT

[#24]

Anyone?

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:14:19 AM EDT

[#25]

Gamer movie reticle

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:23:38 AM EDT

[#26]

I haven't seen that in any game, ever. Probably just a shop, and LOL at the magnification.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:36:20 AM EDT

[#27]

Here is a bigger version.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:37:46 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
from the photo essay the Atlantic published recently of the syrian civil war. there was a thread about it a while back, gimme a min to find it.

edit:
there ya go, bottom of the article, someone ID'd the reticle in the original thread where this was posted.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/

Only reference I see (indirectly) in the comments is a mention that some of the shots looks like "Call of Duty". Nothing specific to the reticle I can find.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:44:03 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
from the photo essay the Atlantic published recently of the syrian civil war. there was a thread about it a while back, gimme a min to find it.

edit:
there ya go, bottom of the article, someone ID'd the reticle in the original thread where this was posted.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/

So, you couldn't cut & paste it? Did it occur to you that others might make comments and bury the Id?

He was talking about someone posting the link to the gallery of photos here on ar15 and someone in THAT thread IDed the reticle.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:46:02 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Video game screen shot if you ask me.

My first thought as well.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:46:38 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Here is a bigger version.

Looks like the WTF line is a barb wire, powerline, or something,

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:47:25 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
from the photo essay the Atlantic published recently of the syrian civil war. there was a thread about it a while back, gimme a min to find it.

edit:
there ya go, bottom of the article, someone ID'd the reticle in the original thread where this was posted.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/

well those are some interesting pictures.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:49:55 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Here is a bigger version.

It looks like a movie still to me.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:52:15 AM EDT

[#34]

I have never seen anything like that. I would not want a white reticle though.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:56:51 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Here is a bigger version.

Looks like the WTF line is a barb wire, powerline, or something,

http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/galleries/2012/11/05/1.jpg

Looks like a ground picture of Sandy aftermath in the background, those buildings are distinctly western.

The whole thing looks like a photoshop.

The aliasing on the wire going through the reticle also gives it away.

Posted: 11/19/2012 10:59:39 AM EDT

[#36]

Photoshop.

Posted: 11/19/2012 11:09:19 AM EDT

[#37]

Fake it looks like.

Why the "pattern" is there I have no idea. Seems like it wouldn't have any benefit whatsoever.

Posted: 11/19/2012 11:20:12 AM EDT

[#38]

well where is this other thread that has an ID?

Posted: 11/19/2012 11:32:44 AM EDT

[#39]

It was ID'd in the last thread as a newer "PSOP."

I'm not sure of that, but that was what's posted.

Here's a few other photos from the same photographer that came out around the same time. (Yes, I realize the FSB clearly doesn't belong to the FAL or bolt gun).

Posted: 11/19/2012 11:34:36 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

It was ID'd in the last thread as a newer "PSOP."

I'm not sure of that, but that was what's posted.

Here's a few other photos from the same photographer that came out around the same time. (Yes, I realize the FSB clearly doesn't belong to the FAL or bolt gun).

http://www.gazettenet.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=U1mY9jpIqyP_CEUl0hSiF8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYs$smsf3nBcNHexpKvuYkasWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/11/05/hi-syria-sniper-8col.jpg

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121030-syria-da-05.photoblog900.jpg

Loopholes they are doing it wrong.

Posted: 11/19/2012 11:34:54 AM EDT

[#41]

It's a Barska. That's the Call of Duty edition.

Posted: 11/19/2012 11:48:08 AM EDT

[#42]

Here's the photo on the photographer's site:

http://narcisocontreras.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/SYRIA-THE-BATTLE-FOR-ALEPPO-III-2012/G0000kf.CPgQTa2Y/I0000JH9u7FTw3fw

Posted: 11/19/2012 11:49:50 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Fake it looks like.

Why the "pattern" is there I have no idea. Seems like it wouldn't have any benefit whatsoever.

I suppose it could be used to measure angles, as it is broken at 45 degree increments.

I'm about the farthest thing from an operator, but I can't think of a reason you'd need the angle of something to compute range or windage.