Lucid P7 Review

The search for the perfect rifle scope is akin to the search for the lost city of El Dorado. It is easy to get obsessed and spend significant time and treasure, thinking that perfection is just around the next bend. However, all optics are a matter of balancing trade-offs and features for a given price point. One scope that offers a surprising amount of features for the money in a body that’s build like a tank is the Lucid P7.

For those not familiar with Lucid, they are a smaller optics company based out of Riverton, Wyoming. They’ve been around since 2009 and currently have about a half dozen different models in their lineup. Like many companies these days, product design takes place here in the US and manufacturing is done overseas to stay competitive. The Lucid P7 that we’ve been shooting with for the last month came with a “made in China” sticker on the bottom.

The P7 is Lucid’s flagship combat optic. It is a fixed four power magnification scope with a built in picatinny rail mount and partially illuminated reticle. Only the center circle and dot of the etched reticle glow red when turned on. The illumination controls are on the left side of the riser mount, just below the body and are a simple to use, three button affair. Pressing the front button is “on, automatic mode”, a second press is “on, manual mode” while holding down for a few seconds is “off”. The two rear buttons increase or decrease the light intensity in manual mode. We were able to distinguish ten different brightness levels when tested after sunset. However, just behind the top scope knob is the small photo sensor that does a surprisingly good job of quickly adjusting the illumination level in automatic mode.

Lucid designed the P7 to run off of a single AA battery, which should be something that everyone is already keeping around for emergencies.  The battery compartment cap is leashed to the scope body, so it won’t go wandering off in the dark. We tested our sample with Duracell, Eneloop and store brand batteries without any problems. Since the electrnesx/Luc.

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