Originally Posted by
Coal Dragger
BUIS is frankly overrated, even military users are realizing this. Chances are if the rifle gets hit hard enough to destroy the optic, the rifle itself may not be functional, plus you have two tough optics on the rifle, how likely is it that both would fail at the same time? I'm more worried about mud, rain, sleet, fogging, ice, and other stuff I encounter while hunting. Not RPG's.
Offset is a tiny issue to the point of being a non issue where actual shooting is concerned, the optic offset is ballistically compensated for in the reticle rendering trajectory vs point of aim concerns basically moot.
This ballistic compensation does not prevent it from snagging on things and getting banged into stuff.
Weight is not much heavier for the D-EVO. In fact given that something like an Eotech G33 and mount weighs 11.2 ounces vs the D-EVO weight of 13.8 ounces the argument about weight is ridiculous. Assuming we are going to use the same red dot sight regardless, then there is a tiny difference in weight. If you think 2.6 ounces one way or another is going to drastically affect your ability to use the weapon system then you probably need to consider working on physical conditioning. The new Aimpoint 6X unit weighs 8.8 ounces before you put a ring on it and put that on a mount, I'll wager full up weight will be in the 12-13 ounce range. I had thought it was heavier. Right you are!
As for swapping from rifle to rifle without losing zero, I have two things to point out. First of all you were just a few posts prior advocating the awesome idea of a prismatic scope on a flip over mount that you would somehow co-witness zero with your red dot sight. Because someone asked about a BDC. Personally, I have no use for it. Read a few posts up from my Vunderbdc post.Looking past the impracticality of such an arrangement, this would seem to directly contradict your complaint of not being able to swap from upper to upper without the need to re-zero. Secondly even current magnifiers still need their azimuth adjusted to center the dot up in the magnifier.... so those won't even go from upper to upper without adjustment if you want an optimal sight picture. You''re correct, but azimuth adjustment has no impact on the zero.
For a guy who now claims to not need a BDC for anything why were you theorizing about how great it would be to have a prismatic optic on a flip mount behind your red dot sight that has a BDC or other reticle features built in? Because someone asked, and I have a penis. That means I'm a born "problem solver", or at least I have the drive to be.