-: Hi, Vincent De Niro, editor-in-chief of Firearms News.
Today I'm in the Shine X booth with Chad Barber
and he's gonna tell us a little bit about these
optics we have in front of us.
So Chad, what do you have?
-: Absolutely. So this is our Shine X Aim 1 0 1.
What we have here is our dual function.
So this is a multi-use scope.
What I mean by that is it can use it for night vision,
you can use it as thermal or the best part about it is we
call it our fusion technology that overlaps our night vision
and thermal on top of one another.
Right on one, right on one picture. Absolutely.
So you're getting the best you in both worlds, right?
You have belt and suspenders essentially? Absolutely. Yep.
We made it really easy to use here.
So we have a builtin GPS, Builtin IR light,
simple when, whenever it's needed.
Turning it on. Turning it off. Sure.
And we got four buttons here, power builtin,
laser range finder, a camera for V for video,
and still photography with audio up to 16 hours,
hours plus your mode button.
You've got rechargeable batteries,
you can use an external battery pack.
You also have a zoom and you can replace the
batteries at the same time.
I know I'm jumping over there, but you can replace the
batteries at the same time.
And you have a zoom which goes two, four, I'm sorry, one,
one power, two power, and four power zoom.
-: Oh, fantastic. -: Yep.
And we've got some really cool features on here,
which we call, one is our RTO, our rapid target outline.
So when you're looking through the scope,
you can turn your RTO on
and it highlights any target that's giving out heat in red.
So it's really good for quick target activation.
So right around the outside profile? Absolutely. Wow.
All the way around the edge gives
you rapid target outline. Now
-: Is that a patent that your company has or
-: Nobody else has?
Got it. It's not patented at this point,
but we we're the only one that has that rapid target outline
that we're aware of at this point.
That is really cool. Yep.
And we've got some other really neat features.
So to keep your hands on your gun at all times,
we can turn your laser rangefinder on by quickly switch,
you get a 45 degree and then turning it back on and
-: It'll, it'll go on -: And it'll turn on.
One of other neat features at the same time is if I wanna
change my red color, I can switch it
that way and it changes red color real.
-: Yep. Now can you switch that back
and forth if you wanted it
to change one thing one way
or one the other? Or do you No, not at, not at
-: This point.
But the features are able to be turned off. Okay.
So the last thing you wanna do is be able to
pick it up expecting yellow
and then you have a purple red color. Oh, right,
-: Right, right.
That that is a great, I, I haven't seen anything like that.
-: Yep. -: On these type of optics
-: Plus we have a ghost radical for zeroing it in.
We're looking at a two shot zero, right? Yeah.
So what you do is you, you take your first shot. Yeah.
And then from your first shot, if you, you go to adjust it
and it gives you a ghost radical, you'll get a blue one,
you keep the blue on the bullseye
and then you adjust it to your, where you shot
and then it automatically calculates
right to your, that's fantastic.
Zeroing it then. But not just that.
The other part of it is as soon as you,
then you calibrate it to, here's that 100, here's
that 200, here's that 300.
So you don't have to know your holdover is,
it automatically adjusts to your weapon
'cause you're setting your yardage for each of your shots.
-: So it's already, there's a ballistics calculator built in?
-: No, you're, you're manually setting the hundred, 200, 300.
But you don't have to worry about, you know, where it's at.
Right, right, right. Knowing your holdovers. Oh, fantastic.
So it's a really, really, really cool features
that we have on this scope. What's
-: The MSRP on this -: One?
So MSRP on this one is 3,500.
-: Okay. Yeah. So that's in line with, with
like scopes. Absolutely.
-: We will take the Pepsi challenge against them.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
We got a two year bumper to bumper warranty on it as well.
Yeah. So, and we've had zero issues
with anybody coming back saying they've
had any complaints with it.
Okay. It's really easy and simple to use.
-: So this is, this is like one of the newer products then
for, for 2025?
-: That is correct. -: Yeah. That's great.
-: Alright, and how can our readers
-: And viewers find you on the internet?
-: So shine x.com, that's where all of our products are at.
-: Alright. -: And they can order direct
-: Or they have to go through a dealer?
-: We, no, we can order direct.
We do have some dealers out there as well
and we're on OPEX Planet as well.
Oh, fantastic. All right.
-: So go to Chex to take a look at this great optic,
which has some great features
that I haven't seen on other scopes.
So, alright.
Chad, you have another optic here as well. Tell me about this one.
-: Absolutely. So this is our G one A.
-: Yeah. -: From Chex. This is our monocular.
-: Yeah. -: So it has a lot of the same features
as our AIM 1 0 1 where you have the night vision
and thermal as well as the fusion technology
that overlaps on one another. You have the Zoom.
-: Yeah, -: You have our RTO
and compare ours compared to everybody else's.
We have a 60 degree field of view,
so it's very large field of view.
Sure. There's virtually zero lag in it when you're
scanning it.
It is, it's seamless.
And one of the other great things
with this is you can also mount it to a weapon if you like,
and and mounts, like all of our mounts, they adjust
for recoil and they continuously go back to zero.
And that's the same thing with our AIM 1 0 1 as well
or the monocular can be mounted on a helmet as
-: Well.
Wow, that's really nice. That's really nice.
-: Now what's the MSRP on -: This one?
-: So the MSRP on this one is $4,500
and the reason being it's a little bit more than the,
the AIM 1 0 1 is the, the chips in here are a lot faster
and the cameras, so.
-: Oh, okay. -: So that's the reason why, but,
but again, this, the same thing with this, you can download,
I mean there's no memory in this one for video,
but you can charge it or simply
remove the batteries as well. Now
-: How about weatherproof weather conditions
and so forth? Any issues there?
-: No issues with them as well.
They're water resistant, they're not waterproof.
I wouldn't swim with it, but if it gets dunked underwater
for a little bit it should be fine.
But, but again, I, I mean sure but rain
and all that, no problem.
No issues whatsoever. Oh
-: Right.
-: We've had 'em out in the cold and had 'em out in the heat.
No issues charge time
-: On this -: If it's completely dead,
well it takes a lot longer in the optic,
but if we like to go with the, the out
outside batteries and recharge 'em that way.
Sure. Or to just simply swap out the batteries.
That's one of the beautiful things.
It's not just recharge, you can replace the batteries.
Oh, just take it out. Yeah, take it out.
Does it have internal power in case you take it out?
Would it still work for a little bit?
Yeah, you could take the batteries out
and leave 'em out for days and you're still gonna maintain
all your memory need zero when setting in.
Okay. So you don't have to worry about that.
No, that's, that's great.
But you can, as I stated, if you're running low,
you can put an external battery source in there.
Well and then you can probably change and
-: Then you back walk and then then you don't have
a break in it. Yeah.
-: Okay. Well fantastic.
Alright, well so we, how can they find you on the internet?
We are@chex.com where you can purchase all of our optics
as well as Optics Planet.
Alright. And for firearms news,
I'm editor in chief Vincent Ro and keep your powder drive.