Need optics advice please !

[Failure2Stop]

I think that high quality low powered variables are superior choices for general purpose rifles.

Dedicated CQB weapons are best served with 1X optics, preferably with long battery life. While 1X optics can be used successfully out to 300 meters, they shine at closer ranges.

Fixed 3X to 4X optics are good to go from about 25 out to the limits of their reticles. The ACOG line dominates this sector of the market, so most of my comments about the low-powered fixed optics are about them. They can be used at much closer ranges but reticle brightness when in transient lighting is sub-optimal. In even lighting they are easily used at CQB distances, which can be a bit deceptive in their real-world employment. I am not a big fan of them, but some reticles lend themselves very well to general purpose use.

Take a look at the stickies in the optics forum, there is a lot of good info there with regard to the low-powered variable options as they currently exist.

[JSantoro]

500grains, could it be the range on your deer chart is backwards?

Pretty sure that it displays holds, presuming a particular zero. A direct link to the specified page would probably answer this for certain. I couldn't find it on the EOTech site, which means exactly what that states: I couldn't find it, not that it doesn't exist.

[TWR]

"Pretty sure that it displays holds, presuming a particular zero".

That makes sense.

I apologise for taking this somewhat off topic and will go back to reading more and posting less.

[JSantoro]

Heh, don't chase the mice running around in his head. Your math is right, and your question was valid.

1MOA = 1.047"@ 100yd, therefore...

65MOA = 71.253" @ 100yd, so it follows that...

17" (symbol for DOES NOT EQUAL) 71"

Don't apologize. The bloody math is part of what getting boned up on optics is all about.

[TWR]

I can buy the soldier pic as a cheap range estimate and the deer pic as where to hold (sort of) but why they made the deer smaller up close looks odd.

Anyway, one more reason I like simple dots and reticles, maybe I have too many things running through my feable mind when it's time to pull the trigger.