Reccomend An ACOG

[markm]

The TA01NSN is the one I want. It doesn't have the light gathering deal on the top, and when the Tritium fades out the reticle just becomes black solid which would be fine by me.

[TehLlama]

TA11 takes it, as much as I like my 31RCO, that one gets carried forward mostly for nostalgia.

Overall, less magnification and more eyebox is preferred, there isn't a realistic difference in capability going up to 4x and losing so much eye relief that to run it aggressively, I would have my eyepro digging into the bridge of my nose to the point where I bled after some Table shoots

[SomeOtherGuy]

TA11, the 3.5x35mm ACOG. More eye relief and user friendly. I've used the TA31 4x and the short eye relief is a pain. I've used the TA33 and just didn't love it, especially in comparison to a light 1-4x.

Tritium or LED is a personal choice, but Trijicon's written warranty on electronics is pretty short. I don't know if they have an unwritten service policy that's more generous.

[Lowdown3]

TA11, the 3.5x35mm ACOG. More eye relief and user friendly. I've used the TA31 4x and the short eye relief is a pain. I've used the TA33 and just didn't love it, especially in comparison to a light 1-4x.

Tritium or LED is a personal choice, but Trijicon's written warranty on electronics is pretty short. I don't know if they have an unwritten service policy that's more generous.

I haven't had opportunity to try to use Trijicon's warranty but I can tell you my oldest ACOG is from 2008-2009'ish It's a .308 BDC 3X30 dual illuminated model. We used them on AKs back then before they built a X39 BDC model.

The amber still glows just fine.

In general people worry too much of tritium- I have Meprolight Tritium sights that I put on AK's in 96 that still have some glow to them.

To me the dual illuminated ACOG is the ultimate SHTF optic.

[SomeOtherGuy]

Notice my comment was about their stated warranty period on electronics. Relevant to the battery-LED ACOG. I understand that the Tritium/fiber optic models work fine for a while, and I own a couple. The loss of brightness with Tritium is predictable like clockwork, while electronics can randomly fail.

https://www.trijicon.com/support/warranty

AccuPoint®, ACOG®, ACOG® Crossbow Scope, Reflex, RMR® (Dual-Illuminated Version): The tritium lamp is warranted to glow for fifteen (15) years in fiber optic scopes and ten (10) years in non-fiber optic scopes from date of original manufacture.

AccuPower®, Credo®, Credo® HX, LED ACOG®, MGRS™, MRO Patrol®, MRO®, RMR® Type 2 (LED and Adjustable LED Versions), RMR®cc, SRO®, SRS®, TARS®, Tenmile®, Tenmile® HX, VCOG®: Electronics are warranted to be free of defects in material and workmanship during normal use for a period of five (5) years from date of original manufacture.

15 years warranty for TFO scopes, 10 for Tritium-only scopes, and just 5 for electronics. They aren't the only company with a short warranty for electronics (offhand I can think of Leupold, Nikon, Sig, and Nightforce having finite electronics warranties), but 5 is less than my expected product lifetime for any decent scope.

[davidjinks]

Any one of the LED version ACOGs; 4x or 3.5x, chevron is okay, horseshoe is better, red is the best color (my preferance).

The 3.5x35 has the absolute best eye relief of any ACOG I have used. The LED reticle is nuclear bright, I found setting 5 to be the absolute best in super bright daylight and setting 4 for indoors with a light. I was messing around with the illume inside and cranked it to its max setting, it took about 2 hours for the chevron image to clear from eyeball. IIRC, it is something like 35,000 hour battery life at setting 4 with a 123 battery.

I regret selling mine but will have another one as soon as possible.

I want an ACOG. What is absolutely the best ACOG to get for the M4 platform?

I already have several high-end LPVO, Aimpoint, and EOTech.

Some will say the 80's is calling and wants it's optic back. I get it. This is something I want. There's a bunch to choose from. Money no object. .223/5.56. No reticle preference. I think I prefer LED but can't really tell you why.

Dazzle me.

[mebiuspower]

I would dare to say the 6x48 (TA648) has the best eye relief, image contrast & clarity... at a huge expense in size, weight and cost.

It's an absolute beast.

[titsonritz]

If I was going to get an ACOG today I'd go with a TA31 with an ACSS Aurora Reticle.

[Brahmzy]

I’m a big fan of the Compact ACOGs. Have 4 of ‘em, will probably end up with more.

[ExplorinInTheWoods]

I would look into the ACSS TA31 because of the reticle designs I like the horse shoe ones but also the newer acss aurora one looks like it was really well thought out.