Atibal Optics is a great company that has been producing quality products for more than a decade.
In a crowded optics market they have always been near the front of the pack. I mean, standing out isn’t all that easy when you are surrounded on several sides by Bushnell, Burris, Primary Arms and other competitors that I could spend all day naming.
It’s been a minute or two since I have swung back over to the Atibal line, so I grabbed a P1 Solar optic to put it through its paces. But first, everyone’s favorite part; the tech specs.
- Solar and Battery Powered Illumination
- Motion Activation
- 30,000-50,000 Hour Battery Life
- Multi-coated Lens
- Reticle- 3 MOA Dot, 65 MOA Ring
- Adjustments- 1 MOA Clicks, 90 MOA Windage and Elevation
- Laser Etched Reticle
- 10 Brightness Settings
- Protection: IP67 Waterproof, Shock Proof, Fog Proof
- Length- 3.6″
- Weight- 9 Ounces
- Lifetime Warranty
When I first got the P1, my initial thought when I pulled it out of the box was “Man, this is simple.” This is in regards to its smooth profile, the already installed mouth and the laser reticle for non-illuminated performance. As someone whose sight isn’t as good as it once was, anything that takes a little of the workload off of my aging eyeballs is all right in my book.
It was ready go to on a gun right away, and you didn’t exactly need a degree from a technical college to get it onto my gun of choice.
So I tossed the P1 onto a Kriss Vector and got it zeroed in, which was amazingly easy and not exactly the difficult process that it would have been with other similar products.
The first look through the tube left me with a couple of lasting impressions. The P1 is “daylight bright” when compared to other similar products I have tried out lately. Some of the lesser ones will wash out pretty badly when looking at a white cardboard target.
Anyone who has been out to a range lately will tell you that the choice of target color usually pretty limited, so this was a big point in the P1’s favor.
The P1 uses a lase-etched reticle instead of a projected beam, which give it clearly defined edges and limits some of the blooming that a lot of dots end up suffering from. If you don’t want the illumination at a given moment, you are still left with a good sharp black reticle.
The glass is very good fine quality glass. Bad glass is really easy to spot these days and good glass isn’t that hard to come by so it’s good to know that the P1 isn’t lacking in the glass department.
Now comes my favorite part of this thing, the solar and battery-powered illumination. By that I mean it’s not just solar power, I mean it’s ALSO solar power. A tiny solar panel like the one you’d see on an emergency radio is on top of the optic which provides additional juice to the battery during use.
I have only tried the P1 on a Vector as of this writing, but I am sure based on how the P1 worked with that gun that it will work with any gun you chose to use it with.
Anyone who uses the P1 will notice an immediate uptick in your target accuracy and I would scoop this one up as soon as you can!
