Some say it's a mark of a rookie.....having an optic on the rail/handguard of their AR.
FWIW when I met my good friend Travis Haley in 2004 he had a 10" SBR with an Krylon'd OD green Aimpoint M2 or M3 on it in an ARMS mount on an ARMS SIR rail. As anyone knows he's in the top 1% of amount of combat trigger time on this forum.......so he's hardly a rookie.
As said it works good for up close, what it gives you is speed verifiable with a shot timer. What it does bad is that it's exposed to more heat, gets banged around more and is more easily shot lose. The same thing goes for lasers mounted on rails.
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