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Hey Marines, soldiers & sailors. I just purchased an Eotech for my AR, its the 557 with a 3x magnifier. First, I can't stop closing my left eye, WTH? LOL! How did you guys that played in the big sand box like the Eotech?
PS, thanks for what you are doing for us.
PS, thanks for what you are doing for us.
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wittynbear, I went through SDM training(with my ACOG) and I shot the Aimpoint M2 at 800+ yards, hitting a point target at 800 yards with an Aimpoint is really something...
to answer the post, a little practice and you will adjust to the eotech. I used and now own a 552 and they are great for cqb to medium range. Beyond 2-300 they cover the entire target. If your looking for a good compromise try a Leupold mark AR varable power with a burris fast fire on top. Best of both worlds. fast fire out to 75-100 meters and the leupold for beyond 100 meters. It has turret set up to 500 meters in 100 meter incriments to match 55 grn good luck.
whittybear--- you made an 800 meter shot with an M4 w/ aimpoint on a running target???? you and " get -r- done" must just have a ball exchanging STORIES! Unlike many I have made up to and beyond 800 meter shots and know what it takes to make them. and not with an M4/w/aimpoint..lol.....
to answer the post, a little practice and you will adjust to the eotech. I used and now own a 552 and they are great for cqb to medium range. Beyond 2-300 they cover the entire target. If your looking for a good compromise try a Leupold mark AR varable power with a burris fast fire on top. Best of both worlds. fast fire out to 75-100 meters and the leupold for beyond 100 meters. It has turret set up to 500 meters in 100 meter incriments to match 55 grn good luck.
The EOTech's center aperature is only 1 MOA...that's only a 3" dot at 300 yards, which is plenty small for human sized targets. The ACOG's have a 14 MOA aperature at 100 yards...HUGE difference.
quote:Originally posted by 82nd airborne infantry
whittybear--- you made an 800 meter shot with an M4 w/ aimpoint on a running target???? you and " get -r- done" must just have a ball exchanging STORIES! Unlike many I have made up to and beyond 800 meter shots and know what it takes to make them. and not with an M4/w/aimpoint..lol.....
to answer the post, a little practice and you will adjust to the eotech. I used and now own a 552 and they are great for cqb to medium range. Beyond 2-300 they cover the entire target. If your looking for a good compromise try a Leupold mark AR varable power with a burris fast fire on top. Best of both worlds. fast fire out to 75-100 meters and the leupold for beyond 100 meters. It has turret set up to 500 meters in 100 meter incriments to match 55 grn good luck.
The EOTech's center aperature is only 1 MOA...that's only a 3" dot at 300 yards, which is plenty small for human sized targets. The ACOG's have a 14 MOA aperature at 100 yards...HUGE difference.
that's why I said the eotech is good to 2-300 meters, but it is also surrounded by a 65 moa donut and hard to engage past that. there are many different ACOG's, not all have the 14 moa chevron. the TAO1 is a very nice scope but 2 times the money of eotech....but a M2 aimpoint has a 4 MOA dot that would cover 32 moa at 800 meters and would cover the target 2 times over. Add in a running target and the bullcrap really gets high.All these sites have their place and purpose, good luck and have fun with your eotech you will get used to it
quote:Originally posted by ECC
quote:Originally posted by 82nd airborne infantry
whittybear--- you made an 800 meter shot with an M4 w/ aimpoint on a running target???? you and " get -r- done" must just have a ball exchanging STORIES! Unlike many I have made up to and beyond 800 meter shots and know what it takes to make them. and not with an M4/w/aimpoint..lol.....
to answer the post, a little practice and you will adjust to the eotech. I used and now own a 552 and they are great for cqb to medium range. Beyond 2-300 they cover the entire target. If your looking for a good compromise try a Leupold mark AR varable power with a burris fast fire on top. Best of both worlds. fast fire out to 75-100 meters and the leupold for beyond 100 meters. It has turret set up to 500 meters in 100 meter incriments to match 55 grn good luck.
The EOTech's center aperature is only 1 MOA...that's only a 3" dot at 300 yards, which is plenty small for human sized targets. The ACOG's have a 14 MOA aperature at 100 yards...HUGE difference.
that's why I said the eotech is good to 2-300 meters, but it is also surrounded by a 65 moa donut and hard to engage past that. there are many different ACOG's, not all have the 14 moa chevron. the TAO1 is a very nice scope but 2 times the money of eotech....but a M2 aimpoint has a 4 MOA dot that would cover 32 moa at 800 meters and would cover the target 2 times over. Add in a running target and the bullcrap really gets high.All these sites have their place and purpose, good luck and have fun with your eotech you will get used to it
I love the EOTechs...personally, I think they are on of the best holographic sights available.
whittybear--- you made an 800 meter shot with an M4 w/ aimpoint on a running target???? you and " get -r- done" must just have a ball exchanging STORIES! Unlike many I have made up to and beyond 800 meter shots and know what it takes to make them. and not with an M4/w/aimpoint..lol.....
to answer the post, a little practice and you will adjust to the eotech. I used and now own a 552 and they are great for cqb to medium range. Beyond 2-300 they cover the entire target. If your looking for a good compromise try a Leupold mark AR varable power with a burris fast fire on top. Best of both worlds. fast fire out to 75-100 meters and the leupold for beyond 100 meters. It has turret set up to 500 meters in 100 meter incriments to match 55 grn good luck.
To be honest I attribute the 800 yard shot I made to luck more than the aimpoint, the aimpoint got me in the ballpark, luck made the shot. But I can't leave that out when trying to get someone to try an aimpoint.
The aimpoint has a 4MOA dot, does tend to cover targets at longer ranges. Even at 500 yards it covers your target, I have had pretty good luck at hitting most shots out that far, but most engagements were within 200 yards and it worked perfectly for that. I have heard they make a 2MOA aimpoint but I have never seen or tried it.
But the aimpoint does have 1 thing the others don't have, I can run an aimpoint 24/7 for 6 months on 1 battery. To my knowledge no one else can touch that.
We all have our own opinions on sights, some people like iron sights, some like scopes others red dot sights, and many variations in each catagory. But the bottom line is like anything else you have to find what works best for you.