#SteinerOptics

A new dawn, new possibilities and another Photo Of The Day. We don’t do enough shotguns in this series, don’t you agree? This is the Benelli M4 Semi-Automatic shotgun with an 18.5″ barrel, painted in Battle Brown. The sight is a Steiner Optics Micro Reflex Sight (MRS), and to make it easier to see if you have a friend or foe in front of you, there’s a Steiner eOptics Battle Light.

Steiner have announced the release of an FDE version of their popular MPS (Micro Pistol Sight) pistol red dot optic. The MPS has a 3.3 MOA reticle, eight brightness settings and a 13,000-hour battery life. It has various mounting options, weighs 2.05 oz and is powered by a CR1632 battery. The FDE model is available with an MSRP of $689.99.

DMRs, or Designated Marksman Rifles, are so hot at the moment. As you can see, our Photo Of The Day reflects this, with some marketing images from Beretta Defense Technologies, as posted on their LinkedIn. The Beretta ARX200 DMR was shown at the World Defense Show in 2022.

The Photo Of The Day can be chosen for a variety of reasons. It may be because of its aesthetic qualities, its newsworthiness, its emotional impact, or its technical excellence. Some Photos Of The Day features have a specific theme, such as nature, architecture, or portraits. Can you guess today’s theme? Well, here it is! The Beretta M9A4 with Steiner eOptics DBAL-PL (and without). What do you think about it?

Just a few days ago, it was announced that the Finnish Defence Forces were buying Sako TRG M10 Precision Rifles. Now Beretta USA, a member of the Beretta Defense Technologies alliance, has announced that the New York Police Department and its Emergency Service Unit (ESU) also bought several Sako TRG M10 multi-caliber sniper systems. The announcement doesn’t reveal which version or caliber(s) the department has chosen, but the picture above shows a black TRG M10, with the 20″, barrel, short fore-end configuration and the optional rear monopod. The rifle is crowned with a riflescope by Steiner (possibly the T6Xi 3-18×56 model), also a member of the Beretta group.

Steiner Optics have announced that a number of Texas law enforcement agencies have approved the Micro Pistol Sight or MPS for duty use. The departments include the Lubbock and Cross Roads police departments (which combined have around 500 officers). Steiner also note that the MPS is being evaluated by Dallas PD. The Steiner MPS sight was introduced back in November 2021 and has a 3.3 MOA reticle, 13,000-hour battery life and multiple mounting options – with an MSRP of $574.99.

Steiner have released their new T6Xi series of riflescopes, which includes four new 6-power zoom scopes: the T6Xi 1-6×24 for close-quarter to mid-range engagements, the T6Xi 3-18×56 and  T6Xi 2.5-15×50 for near- to extended-range performance and last but not least, the T6Xi 5-30×56 for long-range and precision shooting.

In the Spring of 2018, TFB reported about the new modular Steyr Mannlicher SSG M1 rifle. Today we have two good-looking photos of it in action, with the spotter sitting beside the shooter. The riflescope is made by Steiner Optics.

On 30 September the Australian Defence Department announced that it had selected a raft of new weapon systems as part of the first tranche of its major Lethality System Project (LAND 159) project. One of the weapons selected was the Benelli M3A1 which will become Australia’s new Combat Shotgun.

We have been publishing the Photo Of The Day for years. Our focus is on firearms, sometimes a new product, a classic or in the hands of soldiers or sports shooters. Sometimes the pictures work just like pieces of art, like when the night is painted in bullet traces.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day has become an impressive gallery, with an ever-growing number of images of firearms in all sorts of environments. Today we’re going to add one more, on the subject of a new era of semi-automatic Designated Marksman Rifles (DMR) that is seeing the light of day. The photo shows the Sako M23 DMR for the Finnish Defence Force. It’s a  semi-auto sniper rifle, AR-style and chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO. It has a short-stroke gas piston system.

Sliding right on into the end of the year, the folks over at Steiner Optics have just released a brand new pistol red dot sight – the MPS (Micro Pistol Sight). The all-metal enclosed red dot sight features battle-proven durability and mil-spec ruggedness along with a load of features that make it suitable for the most extreme situations in a compact and lightweight package.

The world of firearms optics is vast and ever-growing. Steiner has been a name in the industry since just after the second world war – born out of the ruin of ware in Bayreuth, Germany. The company, started by Karl Steiner, was created from a one-man workshop whose goal was to create sturdy yet flawless products capable of providing soldiers with reliable optics. This one-man workshop eventually grew into the world-renowned name in optics you know today as Steiner Optics. Today on the show we have Product Manager Chris Gaddy who showed us back at TFB GUNFEST 2021 that Steiner Optics has progressed well beyond their humble beginnings in 1947 and is now producing some extremely high tech battle-ready optics for the modern warfighter or sportsman.

Steiner Optics has developed the world’s first sunlight adaptive binocular meant to reduce the glare experienced when using binoculars under sunny conditions. The Steiner BluHorizons 10×26 binocular features Steiner’s trademarked AutoBrigt adaptive lens and comes with premium optics to give you a clear picture no matter if you are hunting, shooting, or adventuring and sightseeing.

Photo Of The Day – It’s still winter in many parts of the World, in particular, in Finland. Here you can see some shooters with their new rifles, optics and gear. Despite the cold, it looks quite tempting, to say the least, and hopefully, mirage is less of an issue than in other parts of the world. The rifles (Tikka TAC A1 and TRG A1) are using the Steiner M-series 5-25x and 4-28x riflescopes.