Originally Posted by
PatrioticDisorder
Everyone keeps parroting "hard on optics" with nothing to back that assertion. Eotechs suck in general but besides that I've only heard of 1 optic I'd consider quality break on a SCAR and that was a Trijicon Accupoint which more than likely had a sub par mount. Put a solid optic + solid mount on a SCAR 17s and don't think twice about it!
I've seen a TA33, TA55, and an 01 all break on the SCAR. Not so much break into pieces, as cloud and become barely useable. Works fine with AIMPOINT Micro and the EOTech EXPS models hold up great (but they suck to use...?). It's not always as much of what mount is used, though a quality mount helps, but where on the rifle it's being mounted.
Besides being hard on optics, I don't see the Mk17 going away anytime soon. It's versatile, it's held up great in the combat theaters, and is as easy to make DMR or CQB as the current M4. Great gun all around, the "fan boy" attention just seems to always go away with time. Anything that's been around for four years or so loses it's fanatic craze and finds itself either consistent or obsolete, the latter not the case with the SCAR.
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