Speaking of the library you guys know that LPVO is excellent choice for most Shooters.

Year after year Optics manufacturer never stop improving, you're getting more magnification in the same scope bodies for less money.

They're pushing those features down to the lower cost level so I kind of expect that to continue in these coming years so when something unexpected arrives I tend to take notice so when I first saw that QVO tactical video that all of you guys saw for their first scope switch I was like what is that and what followed was man I had lots of questions. Fortunately a lot of those were answered by Antimatter Industries videos whether it's their torture test video which is really impressive.

By the way if you have already seen it and also install video which is really detailed but we'll talk about it more later and there are a lot of review videos as well. I can just name a few brass facts, Sage Dynamics,Micah Mayfield and they all did an excellent job but reading through some of those comments on those videos I saw one thing that kind of stuck out to me as a commonality now when I read those.

I hope to correct that so first thing we're going to talk about is the install which I think has been kind of glossed over from other videos which is a shame because I think it's a major consideration if you think about this product and secondly once you have this installed.

So this is a difficult install process at least that's what the first thing you're going to hear when you watch the Antimatter install video and that's the first thing you're going to hear when I'm talking to you here but hopefully since i've done it a few times.

Now I can pass along some lessons I learned to you.

The install process basically has three major steps number one is mounting the scope into the Rings number two is mounting the slider assembly the hook and number three is attaching the ring sleeve and the cables so the entire process took me about an hour or so to complete with some stumbling blocks along the way so it give yourself plenty of time especially if it's your first time. 

So mounting the scope is pretty straightforward if you mounted an LPVO before is going to look very similar so you're dealing with the same steps the only things I'll mention here is number one is the scope switch only comes in 30 or 34 mm.

Even though the ring changes the ring size changes everything else is the same you still need to buy a separate scope switch if you want one of each the second thing you'll notice it is mounted at 193 scope height Mount. You can kind of see why they had to do the 193 because if they did one five standard height then this hook would be all in your view when you're shooting through it that would be kind of a clutter View and since it is 193.If you haven't shot it before it does take a little bit of a different cheek weld right so it is a little bit more heads up shooting position at 1X. however you're in the position, it is a little bit harder because your neck is pointed a little bit higher than if you're straight down 1.5.  

It's something you get get used to for sure one other thing to keep in mind is since it is a taller height that does affect ballistics a little bit so it tends to shoot a little bit higher at different distances and it's more susceptible the rifle can as to the mounting procedure itself like I said it's a very straightforward the only thing I noticed is right underneath here there's not very much room for a scope level tool so if you use that like we showed in the lpvo user it's like it's too thin to fit so basically in order to level the scope, you'll need to use a small set of feeler gauges or your level to match the angle on the scope turret cap and match the angle of the upper receivers and lastly when you're mounting the Rings themselves these are torqued down to 15inch pound so it is a little bit light it matches what the arrow Precision ultra lights are.

However I didn't notice any issues with the scope moving back and forth or rolling in his Mount so I think 15 in LBS is fine and also this is attached to the upper SE of 45 in pound so it's super solid it ain't going anywhere okay so now you're to the second part of the install which is the slider assembly the most difficult part and you're really going to only encounter difficulty here depending upon which way your lpvo rotates to magnify so it rotates clockwise like this Vortex razor then you're not have any extra work to do however it rotates counterclockwise to go up magnification like the primary arms 1-6x Nova.

Then you're going to have a one extra step so the scope switch ships with it going clockwise so that should be good for most Scopes so if you need to change the direction of travel for your scope that is controlled under by underneath here by this small little tab with the cable running through it so basically you have to take that small little tab undo it and move the cable to the other side and then while you're simultaneously holding that small tab you got to screw it back in to this hook so it takes a a little bit of fine motor skill.

And it's a little bit cloy personally I told an matter myself you should have just shipped it with like hey if your your scope rotates to the right then use this red one if your scope rotates to the left and use this blue one then basically you just swap them in and out without having to go through working through those fine surgery details okay so once you have the hardest part of that little tab thing out of the way, then the last thing you have to do is just place the whole rail part onto your hand guard so you have to experiment with where you want on the rail based on your support hand position. 

Anyways like moving a little bit closer to the upper receiver was a little bit easier and allowed me to have more leverage in moving it further out so one thing I did notice and I ran into this you may not run into this but so when I attached this rail assembly to my hand guard every time I screwed these in my rail assembly would stop moving it would just seize up and after days of back and forth between the antimatter it turned out that my BCM rail was slightly out of spec on one of my rails when I changed this to an MI rail then the problem went away so hopefully you don't run into that issue but if you do that's the cause.

So now you're down to the final part which is mounting the ring sleeve and the cables which is not too bad considering that you've gotten past the hardest part which is the slider assembly so for the ring the only thing.

I'll notice here is it shifts with two spacers and neither of the spacers was like a super good fit for any of the two scopes I use. So for first time I did try with the primary arms 1-6x Nova which I shot in the match I tried the big spacer and that was like too big, then I tried the small spacer for the primary arms it was almost just too small so basically there was like a middle spacer missing. So we got the big one and the small one and there should have been like a medium one maybe. So when I did the vortex razor I tried the small one because the big one big one's way too big and the small one is even too big so basically what I had to do and Antimatter recommended this.

I just snapped a ranger band aka Big rubber band around it to fill the space and that allowed take up that space and sit really snug again so knowing that maybe antimatter just should do away the SPAC or just ship with a bunch of Ranger bands instead and lastly attaching the cables around the sleeve ring is not too bad just a couple things make sure when you're running the cables underneath the scope mount when you're attaching them make sure this is forward and as tight as you can when you're pulling on the cables and the other thing I wanted to mention was here are where all the screws Mount these are actually very sensitive so you can strip the screw holes if you turn these too tight. 

Don't use anything else I was using a hex screw and I found out firsthand how sensitive it was and I stripped one of these screw holes so once I did that the ring sleeve couldn't be used so I had to wait for a replacement so there was a little bit of downtime so you got a bunch of small little screws and cables sticking out here where it snaps onto the ring somebody asked earlier hey if I put this on here can I still actuate my my zoom lever and yes you can I could turn it you can see me doing it without using the front hook and because you got like all these screws and wires sticking out.

Here you basically have to grab it around the sleeve to actuate like this because if you move really quick with your palm on it and turn your hand it's not going to feel real good with those screws. And wires pressed up against the palm of your hand so once that's done then technically you're done so if you can move this back and forth and this thing moves then you're done all right fellas so once you have this thing put together the first things you're going to notice about this operation like I mentioned before it's stiffer than you think.

It is like you're moving it so you can hear that that friction as it moves along this rail right so as far as my thumb position I usually run with thumb of a board anyway so this is my natural shooting position if you're running a vertical for grip most guys in competition are not so your natural position is somewhere like here so in order to actuate the lever you're going to have to move your thumb so as far as getting maximum advantage on this lever.

You can leave your thumb here and work it using this joint here although I don't really like how it puts a lot of pressure on this joint here near my thumb so it kind of hurts a little bit so what I've been doing is instead of doing it like this I've been rolling it in a little bit further and using this knuckle I know this looks dirty as hell but it works really well so there's no pain and actually you can move it the lever pretty quickly there so as far as ending position wherever you end up whether you're zoomed in or zoomed out right you can shoot from any of these positions without moving your thumb again now antimatter on their website they publish a spreadsheet that says hey these are the Scopes we tried and they list them in order of ease operation with one being easiest well in my experience.

I kind of didn't really that when I tried the Primary Arms Nova probably a six it's a little bit on the stiffer side but this Vortex I didn't think was super easy maybe it was a five slightly easier than the Primary Arms Nova. So I can see why like a lot of videos people are using the primary arms 1-8X compact because that one's super smooth so as far as what Antimatter are saying is that your scope Choice fixs how this scope switch will work I think that's super important. By the way so once this thing is mounted,it is 10 oz mounted given that if you're using like a Mount which we've used any type of QD Mount which is going going to be around 8 oz anyway this is only 2 oz more and I did not feel the difference between them.

We've worked the scopeswitch a little bit I think it's important to find out when you're going to use this the most just because you have this capability doesn't mean you're like constantly going to fuss with it on a stage you know you guys know having shot a lot of of course is a fire when you need to change magnification on a stage.