i would have been fine with the MBUS i bought, but i found a used eotech for cheap, so i could not pass it up!!! but op yea, get comfy with your system then explore the options!!! they are all out there!!
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i would have been fine with the MBUS i bought, but i found a used eotech for cheap, so i could not pass it up!!! but op yea, get comfy with your system then explore the options!!! they are all out there!!
I personally prefer the reticle and FOV on the Eotech, as do others. Though the Aimpoint definitely has Eotech beat in a few important categories, there are many factors concerning what works best for an individual, and discounting one type of optic without researching it personally just isn't the best course of action. I would suggest to the OP that he get ahold of both and see what works best for him.
Unfortunately, OP, you ultimately have to go down the rabbit hole on your own. You can research and narrow your choices, but the only thing that's going to show what is best for you is to use all that is available and make your decision from there. That informed decision is going to require experience and the resulting competence to understand what is needed for your application. Following that, it's going to take spending the dough to buy things that you think will work but can only know by using them until they prove to be what you want. In that vein, many of us have a drawer full of holsters that were once just what we needed.
Get basic gear, get training. Learn the gun, learn how to make holes where you want them to go. Then you will have a basis for an informed decision about how to further invest your dollars.
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I would say get out and shoot. Familiarize yourself with it. Take a class. Luckily I've had some really good mentors. Shoot, and learn what works for you.
As for optics, if you know people with optics, try them out. Find which one better suits your style of shooting.
Two tips. You get what you pay for. Research, Use the search button (This goes back to "shoot and figure out what'll work for you". Do the research and figure out what fits your needs)
One thing you must do is just try out an EOTech with both eyes open. The holographic image of that big circle-dot reticle is just unreal. The funny thing is it's designed to be in focus when you're not looking at it (say what?). Yeah, focus on the target while looking through the EOTech with both eyes open and the reticle becomes crystal clear. If you try to look directly on the reticle, it looks fuzzy.
Anyways, other points about EOTech battery life, etc., are also true. But you just have to check out the holographic effect! I was just amazed by that when I tried it.
It's just another way of projecting a reticle onto the sight glass. Not sure what "Holographic effect" you're talking about. Both Aimpoints and Eotechs are collimated so that the reticle is in focus at infinity (target plane) and should be shot with both eyes open for the sake of better overall FOV.
This. Spot on. I recommend both. I've used and owned both.
But I wouldn't even count out a good 1-4 variable either.
I'm sure the OP is entirely capable of using the search function to view the previous thousand eotech vs aimpoint threads.
The best thing for the OP to do is use the rifle, use the sights/optics, get some rounds down range and see what's going to work for them.
Last edited by RMiller; 06-11-13 at 07:58.
ntech, you posted exactly the same post as a thread-starter yesterday. It got moved to the AR Picture thread because that's where it belonged. You know this, because you edited that post to remove the text, at 1622, yesterday.
Ergo, you knowingly decided to give the staff the finger by re-posting the same thing, in the same way. That usually ends up with the staff giving you more than just the finger right back. Might wanna give it some more thought on the next go-around....
If you've lurked as long as you state you have, you already know that we aren't big on threads where the sum total of the content ends up being "I bought something...!" This sentence:
...is what makes the difference between "I bought something...!" and "Here's what I've found, now that I've wrung this thing out, and here are my questions."I have not gone to the range yet.
As it stands, you still have the former, just as you did yesterday. All of the questions you've included ALL have threads in their respective areas that are discoverable via either of the two Search methods the forum provides you.
Go shoot your new gun. Welcome aboard. Read this for some background regarding gun-forum behaviors we see, and the reasons the staff takes the actions they do: https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=70019
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