Dr. John A. King reviews Nicholas Orr's A Pipe Hitter's Guide to Red Dots and Optics, praising it for explaining complex handgun optics in plain language without jargon. The book gives concrete buying recommendations instead of marketing speak, and its conversational tone makes technical material accessible to non-experts.
This little beauty, A Pye Pitter's Guide to Red Dots and Optics. So, all right, on the 1-minute book review brilliant to bollocks meter, solid brilliant, probably a double brilliant. Here's why. Guy's not a wanker. Little book. So you know how you meet these fellas, and I've always figured out long ago that if someone can't explain it, a complex subject, in a simple manner to someone who doesn't have a background in said whatever it is, then the person doing the explanation knows bugger all about it. This fella knows what he's talking about. And you know how I know is by the end of the book I got here, I wasn't made to feel small. I had the information I needed to make a financial decision on what sort of optic I wanted to put on my pistol. And I could sit down and have a conversation with my brother and my cousin about— and they're total gun nuts— and I could sit down and have a conversation, and we now had something to talk about, and it was just really great. Now I could understand some things. So this is brilliant. You'll go through it, you'll get all the information you need. There is some technical stuff in here, but it's not overwhelming. Nicholas Orr— I don't think it's his real name, his name's probably George— Or Eric or something, Elvis. But he goes through it all and he's got a mate in the back end that gives you a solid recommendation. It's not one of those books you read and you go away and think, well, he didn't actually bloody tell me what to do. That's not why we buy books like this. You and I buy books like this because we want to know what to bloody do. So this guy does that for you, and he bloody explains why. It's not just to buy this, you know, here's my, uh, you know, uh, affiliate link. He goes through and says, "Hey, listen, mate. Here you go." Okay, great. So, Pye Pitter's Guide to Red Dots and Optics. I don't even know if I said that at the beginning. Straight up brilliant. Nicholas or Nicholas? I'm not a wanker or Pye Pitter's Guide to Red Dots and Optics. Cheers.
