I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...

Every modern hunter knows that a riflescope is a critical shooting accessory, but the reticle inside the riflescope is just as important because it is what you aim with. Riflescope reticles have ...

It used to be only high-end test equipment that had some sort of remote control port. These days, though, they are quite common. Historically, test gear used IEEE-488 (also known as GPIB or, from the ...