Primary Arms Platunum 1-8X24

Primary arms steps up its game with a 34mm tube LPVO.

- Iain Harrison

Primary Arms has long been known for its cheap and cheerful line of rifle scopes, loving crafted from 24 karat Chinesium. They’re the kind of aiming device you could buy on a beer budget, yet still not be afraid to take to one of Dan Brokos’ carbine classes where they’ll be subjected to fairly hard use, getting slammed into vehicles and generally rolling around in the dirt. What you may not know, is that for the past couple of years they’ve also imported a 1-8 LPVO which will hang with name brand glass costing quite a bit more.

The scope in question is their Platinum series and rather than share a production line with their budget products made in mainland China, this one’s produced in the Light Optical Works plant in Japan. Why should this matter? Well, LOW make scopes and components for a number of respected brands that are clearly content with the quality they can turn out. Like most companies who fulfill OEM contracts, they’re quite happy to produce whatever their clients specify, and in this case, Primary Arms appear to have upped the ante.