TPH 175: Finishing the Optic Naming System: LPVO, MPVO, IPVO, HPVO (and More)

The Texas Predator Hunting Podcast · Sep 23, 2025 · 40m

We’ve been tossing around LPVO/MPVO for years—so let’s finish the system and make it useful. In this episode I lay out a practical naming convention for tactical optics:

PO – Pistol Optics (micro/open/closed-emitter pistol dots)

NVO – Non-Variable Optics (rifle-rated red dots, holo, prisms, + optional magnifiers)

LPVO – Low-Power Variable Optics (1-4/1-6/1-8/1-10; no parallax knob)

MPVO – Mid-Power Variable Optics (high-1x/2-10/2-12/… with parallax adjustment)

IPVO – Intermediate-Power Variables (3-15/3-18/4-16/2-20; tops out ≤20x)

HPVO – High-Power Variable Optics (≥ ~5-25 and up…