Availability announcement is not quite my forte, but I thought this was worth sharing.

At SHOT Show this year, Primary Arms announced a SFP version of their excellent PLx series 1-8x24 low power variable scope.

I have written and talked about the earlier FFP version of this scope extensively. SFP model is new and is now finally in stock: https://alnk.to/4qLmHb9

LPVO development during the last several years has really gone through one hell technological leap. FOVs got wider. Weight got lower. The biggest disadvantage of LPVOs overall is size and bulk.

Primary Arms' PLxC was designed to shrink down the size and weight as far as practical without compromising optical and mechanical performance.

The first version was FFP and I still have one of them. It is an excellent lightweight LPVO/DMR scope. ACSS reticles in it take a little getting used to, but they work. The whole package offers a lot for the money. Of the three available reticles, I strongly prefer the Meters version. It has the least amount of extraneous stuff I never use and the more prominent horseshoe of the three. https://alnk.to/28RvWFY

With the SFP version of this scope, PA wisely decided to equip with a fiber illuminated reticle. That means the reticle is electroformed rather than glass etched. That means you can not too much extraneous stuff to the reticle. There is only so much you can do with a wire-based design, so it is a simple mil-hash reticle with some basic range estimation available on 8x.

With LPVOs, unless you get a scope with ultra bright diffractive reticle, the basic choice between FFP and SFP is uncomplicated: if you do not venture beyond 300 yards a whole lot (i.e. mostly stay within MPBR), SFP with a bright fiber reticle is likely to offer more for your money.

That is exactly what the choice between SFP and FFP version of PLxC 1-8x24 comes down to: if you are looking for a DMR scope, go FFP. Otherwise, this new SFP fiber illuminated 1-8x is excellent.

Now, you do have to keep in mind that all the hashmarks thicknesses and separations are only mrad accurate on 8x. If you are used to holding with the reticle all the time on different magnifications, FFP is going to be more your speed.

In my time with this SFP 1-8x, I did not find it slowing me down very much. In many ways, it really reminded me of how it was using Vortex' Razor Gen2 1-6x24, except with less weight and a touch more magnification on the high end. I think the Gen2 Razor has slightly larger eyebox on 1x (exit pupil seemed slightly smaller on the PA), but it is not a big difference. Given the Razor Gen2 is likely the single most proven (and abused) LPVO on the market today, this is pretty high praise.

Nova reticle equipped PLxC is optically excellent, weighs a hair under 17 ounces and is 9.2 inches long.

Reticle illumination has ten levels with "off" setting every other click. On 10 is nuclear bright even in bright New Mexico sun. On 1, it is sufficiently dim for even night time use. Turrets track should you want to dial, but I keep them covered. That is not my primary use for this scope, although it works surprisingly well. Click feel is excellent and would be very much appropriate on a precision scope. There is no zero stop though, since these are simple covered turrets. The design of the turrets is PA's proprietary, so I see versions of it on several PA models. This one might be the best execution of it yet.

Very importantly for an LPVO, FOV is very flat and very well corrected for distortion. It is a VERY fast scope on 1x.