Irons are superb when there is good light. Sometimes there is none.... so....
I voted EoTech.
I'm not so sure I will ever shoot for accurate hits beyond 200 yards any more. I've done it well beyond that with irons in the Army (and WAY beyond that when I was on the US Army Post Rifle Team shooting NM M14s when I was young). Back then using irons we were making hits at unbelieveable distances (but face it they were REALLY large targets). Realistically, for the rest of my life I'm pretty much committed to maybe being faced with RARE situations under 200 yards, and at work often times only 35-50 yards. Or even as close as twenty feet when I probably don't even need sight alignment.
So I rock a good rear BUIS on my A2 fixed front sight RRA and a co-witnessed EoTech XPS-2. Out to 150-yards from a decent rest I've made 2-MOA hits (4-MOA is more average but that is me not the 1-MOA dot on the EoTech or the irons) and at 50-150 feet the EoTech is spectacular in all lighting.
At room distances I love the EoTech 65-MOA circle cuz I shift the aiming point to the 6-o'clock tick on the ring and I'm GTG if I have to hit a 1"x1" mark looking thru the glass.
The Aimpoint CompML3 or the PRO is a good dot sight if you are shooting 50-yards out to about 300. Nearly indestructible. But for me it's hard in bright daylight to pick out the 2-MOA dot and keep concentrated on it. The EoTech circle keeps my eye on the dot much easier.
The TRIJICON TriPower is maybe the best instinctive CQB (non-magnified) optic with it's inverted chevron aiming point. I LOVE that thing! It doesn't compensate at <75-feet as well as the EoTech but it really is the ballz.
Great thread, AK!!!!!!!!!
I voted EoTech.
I'm not so sure I will ever shoot for accurate hits beyond 200 yards any more. I've done it well beyond that with irons in the Army (and WAY beyond that when I was on the US Army Post Rifle Team shooting NM M14s when I was young). Back then using irons we were making hits at unbelieveable distances (but face it they were REALLY large targets). Realistically, for the rest of my life I'm pretty much committed to maybe being faced with RARE situations under 200 yards, and at work often times only 35-50 yards. Or even as close as twenty feet when I probably don't even need sight alignment.
So I rock a good rear BUIS on my A2 fixed front sight RRA and a co-witnessed EoTech XPS-2. Out to 150-yards from a decent rest I've made 2-MOA hits (4-MOA is more average but that is me not the 1-MOA dot on the EoTech or the irons) and at 50-150 feet the EoTech is spectacular in all lighting.
At room distances I love the EoTech 65-MOA circle cuz I shift the aiming point to the 6-o'clock tick on the ring and I'm GTG if I have to hit a 1"x1" mark looking thru the glass.
The Aimpoint CompML3 or the PRO is a good dot sight if you are shooting 50-yards out to about 300. Nearly indestructible. But for me it's hard in bright daylight to pick out the 2-MOA dot and keep concentrated on it. The EoTech circle keeps my eye on the dot much easier.
The TRIJICON TriPower is maybe the best instinctive CQB (non-magnified) optic with it's inverted chevron aiming point. I LOVE that thing! It doesn't compensate at <75-feet as well as the EoTech but it really is the ballz.
Great thread, AK!!!!!!!!!