
“It’s called by several different names, including multi-X or duplex,” Tanker said. So we’ve come from crossed hairs to glass that’s etched in a computer-controlled etching machine.”įor all the technology out there, one of the most basic reticles still is the most popular. “When that paint is hit with an LED that’s inside the scope, it’s going to glow and be very easy to see in low light conditions. “Then, if they’re going to be illuminated, they’re filled in with some type of luminescent paint,” he said. Today, Tanker said, there are two basic kinds of reticles: thin metal wire that looks very much like the original crosshairs, and complex reticle shapes that are etched with a laser on glass. “They had stretched horsehair to make an aiming point,” he said. In the early days of riflescopes, Tanker said, the crosshairs really were just that-crossed hairs. “There are many ways to get on target,” Tanker said, “from the simplest crosshair where we started to the complex.” You can bet, however, that whatever you see will be similar in form and function to one of the reticles you see here. Keep in mind that you may see other reticle types when you go shopping for a new scope. Tanker gave us an overview of the most common reticle types that shooters are seeing these days, and how they work. Recently, Women & Guns reached out to Tim Tanker, product manager of riflescopes at Bushnell Outdoor Products, to gain a better understanding of what we see when we look through one of today’s scopes. With the wide range of scopes out there-some of them very expensive-shooters often can’t figure out what all the lines and dots are supposed to mean and do. They weren’t hard to understand or to use what you saw was what you got. Not so today. The aim of this investigation is to gauge how the current discourse on Japan's “gap-widening society” is encoded in recent literature and films.Back in the day (not so long ago), when you purchased a riflescope or a pistol scope for target shooting or hunting, you had a choice of simple crosshairs or a red dot. In comparison, Tanada Yuki's Hyakuman-en to nigamushi onna, which was also published in 2008, depicts the contemporary social challenges of the much younger freeter generation upon graduating from university. This concern is especially evident in the film Tokyo Sonata directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi in 2008, which depicts a family in crisis because of the traditional breadwinner losing his job.

Special consideration is given to the plight of Japan's older working-class generations who are profoundly affected by the accelerating kakusa shakai trend of recent years.


subsequent generation of Japanese has allegorically and symbolically represented the dramatic social changes they experienced through popular cultural media like film and manga.This article also examines how Japan's growing stratification is situated within the popular cultural media of recent films. Starting with the phenomenon of postwar economic growth, each. A recent revival of sociological terms like freeter and NEET in popular cultural media reflects an increasing concern with the rapidly changing social landscape in contemporary Japanese society. This article investigates the popular cultural implications of the “gap-widening society” (kakusa shakai) as identified by Yamada Masahiro. The aim of this investigation is to gauge how the current discourse on Japan’s “gap-widening society” is encoded in recent literature and films. In comparison, Tanada Yuki’s Hyakuman-en to nigamushi onna, which was also published in 2008, depicts the contemporary social challenges of the much younger freeter generation upon graduating from university. Special consideration is given to the plight of Japan’s older working-class generations who are profoundly affected by the accelerating kakusa shakai trend of recent years. This article also examines how Japan’s growing stratification is situated within the popular cultural media of recent films.

Starting with the phenomenon of postwar economic growth, each subsequent generation of Japanese has allegorically and symbolically represented the dramatic social changes they experienced through popular cultural media like film and manga.
