It is first generation for sure, the tritium is deader then a hammer. Never been much interested in magnifying combat optics, being that I am quite comfortable with irons out to 600 yards, but have been a bit curious about the ELCAN and the ACOG. Today at the Tulsa show I found this guy selling beater ELCANs for $325. Looked like they were DXed. They all had chips in the lenses, or mold growing in em. I figured, what the heck, for this kinda money I can try it out and see what these are all about. Only thing I was really worried about was the mount. The rest looks purdy solid. It does have a chip in the lens, but it is off center quite a bit, just shows up as a fuzzy spot when looking thru it.
Will have to take it out shooting, if I like it I will put it on my deer rifle (AR-10). It does sit a bit high, but not near as high as it looks. It also seems real sensitive to eye relief, but maybe that is me not being used to magnifying optics?