Need advice: EOTECH or M-68 (Aimpoint)

You shoot with both eyes open. You look through the optic with one eye, and look straight ahead with the other. Your brain superimposes the dot over your second eye, so it just hovers out in front of you. Like the crosshairs in a shooting game :)

It's called the Bindon Aiming Concept
 
Marquezj16 said:
BTW, you can leave the front cover on and still use the red dot to engage.
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MTT TL said:
Perhaps you mean the anti-glare? I don't see how you could shoot with the cover on.
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Oh yes. Very doable. And this technique has it's merits. Transition from a low light to a well lit area can cause the dot to wash out due to user setting. With the front cover on, the wash out effect is greatly lessened to almost nill. I utilize this practice this as well. Aimpoints rock!
 
The Aimpoint body will not hinder your sight picture at all. It should barely register. That's my experience anyway. Very fast and very repeatable.
 
Oh yes. Very doable. And this technique has it's merits. Transition from a low light to a well lit area can cause the dot to wash out due to user setting. With the front cover on, the wash out effect is greatly lessened to almost nill. I utilize this practice this as well. Aimpoints rock!
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Me confused. I am thinking of rubber cap that covers both ends and has no holes in it.

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If you can shoot with that puppy on you need to be wearing a cape.
 
Yeah...leave the rear cap OFF and the front cap ON. Try it. It works.

Added : Those flip caps look cooler though.

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If you can shoot with that puppy on you need to be wearing a cape.
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Oh ye of little faith...
 
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Hmm, I will have to try it, sure would be nice to keep the dust off. Not sure I want to switch back to an M68 though.
 
I got ya, I see my confusion now was that you can not indeed see through the cap, but your mind projects the dot anyway.

We just used the polarizing filters on my team. I could not use that on the tour I carried the M68 because I wore glasses (pre-surgery) and they played hell at long ranges. So I just dialed the scope down to nothing at night and hoped for the best.

It was actually one of the top reasons I got surgery and threw the glasses away.
 
Own several Aimpoints, have yet to change a battery. All are built hell for stout. Like them very very much.

That being said I don't have a need, desire, dream, hope or fantasy of using them for serious social pursuits and count my blessings there are folks who do this besides me so the Eotech may be faster on target, for me however they punch paper very fast, very well and last forever. :D
 
what he said. Aimpoint all the way. ive got a few aimpoints. My first was a c2 i bought 5 years ago and its been banged around on 4 wheelers and in trucks and the gun its on is on its second barrel but all thats been done to the aimpoint in 5 years is one battery replacement and that battery wasnt even getting bad when i changed it. I mostly did it because they claimed a one year battery life and after 3 i figured it was due. By the way this aimpoint has never been turned off more then a couple minutes at a time. I once saw a you tube video from aimpoint where they took a couple rifles out in a concrete parking area set up a couple targets at 50 yards shot both guns took the scopes off and skipped them accorss the concrete and then skipped them back again and remounted them and they held zero. try that with an eotec and see whats left of it. Sure nobody in there right mind is going to do that to a 500 dollar sight but it sure makes you a bit more confident that if your rifle falls over or gets dropped your still going to hit what your aiming at when you pick it up.
 
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Me confused. I am thinking of rubber cap that covers both ends and has no holes in it.
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you dont need a hole in the front cover. just keep both eyes open and impose the dot on the target. I keep my self defense ar in the bedroom set up just like that. It keeps the dust off the front lense and works just as well at close range as having it off.
 
To the cover idea.

It works, BUT you will have some offset from POA/POI. The is due to the effects of phoria.

Different people have different amounts of it. Some people might shoot 2 inches to the left at 25 yards. Some might shoot a 1 foot to the left, you definitely need to verify this. (I shoot 2 inches to the left when I do it)

If you want to keep the dust off the lensese and still be able to use it, get the clear see through caps. You can get them from Aimpoint and they are very tough.
 
crow hunter is correct. It will change poa enough that shooting at ever 25 yards might be effected to much but its more of an option for shooting to protect yourself in your home and at a matter of feet the change means nothing.
 
I’ve deployed with both the Aimpoint and the EOTech. I prefer the EOTech although both have performed quite well. On the Army qualification, was able to shoot expert with both of them, so not major differences for me. Battery life is great in Aimpoints, but I haven’t found that to be a big discriminator for me. I did have the adjustment dial fall off during a range session with my Aimpoint in Iraq…it made me really practice the BUIS use! That was a minor issue and was easily fixed…not the norm for as many CCO’s I’ve seen. If you get a chance, you really need to put a few rounds down range with both and decide. I know some saw the EOTech’s as ‘fuzzy’, but I never experienced that.

ROCK6
 
Thanks for all the great feedback.

Yesterday my supply NCO discovered he misread the code for the deployment requirements. Looks like I'll just get the M-4 with M-68. I have a qual date latter this month to shoot the new course of fire.

I am considering getting one for my AR at home to practice with a little more.

G3
 
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