Had to return to op due to lens distortion/fish eye - Primary Arms SLx 1-8x24mm Rifle Scope, 30mm Tube, First Focal Plane (FFP)

Upon receiving the optic I immediately noticed a severe fish eye effect at 1x. This lessened when I magnified to 8x, however, was still very noticeable. This is my first LPVO so wanted to make sure this was not typical. I spoke with Primary and they were very professional, however, they told me that this was not normal and there was in fact an issue and that it may have been "dropped" while in transit and that one of the lenses may be "loose". They did offer to fix it but it would take 3 weeks. Much easier to get refunded by OP.

I chose this optic based on a Garand thumb review on Youtube. This was done on Primary's 1-6 but by my estimation this optic should be no different. In the review he stated that this optic (1-6) was not suitable for combat use at which point Primary contested and insisted he do another review to "torture test" the optic. I suggest watching these reviews if you are reading this although I do question whether or not his optics were cherry picked by the supplier prior to the review. I agree with Garand Thumb's initial assessment but second that in saying this thing either died in a soft sponge wrapped box or whomever does QC at Primary was having a really bad day.

I do not expect duty use reliability from an optic at this price point, however, I would expect the optic to last longer than it's slightly overweight dad bod shooter with no military or LE experience. This thing was dead on arrival. Don't be cheap and save your money for what you really want, a VCOG.

Cheap overweight dad - 1
Primary Arms 1-8 - 0