We have a hodgepodge of optics, some have acogs, some have m68 others just straight up open sights.
Life was probably simpler when everyone shooting service rifle used the same exact set-ups... Probably a lot more fair as well...
I should of clarified that’s in the Army far as hodgepodge and every battalion is different. Far as service rifle everyone is pretty much on the same page far as equipment. It’s all on the shooter what they want to spend. Like I mentioned in the other thread, all our service rifle folks switched to optics. Some say it’s cheating but I say it’s staying up with the times. For example majority of Jr service rifle shooters use scopes. A lot of the older folks who shot service rifle gave up due to degrading eye sight. But with rules being changed few yrs back allowing optics it brought them back..
I'm not shooting service rifle matches though buddy. Here at my club, we just have fun with it. When they say we are having an AR rifle match, it's run what you brung. We have what we call scoped rifle matches, Iron sight class and an open class where you can run what ever you want... We get some heavy hitters coming in from Portland and Vancouver that have a lot more money than I do. Those fuggers spare no expense when it comes to the rifles they bring. One guy brought a big heavy azzed 26" barreled monster and I was joking with him in front of everyone and I said "we should lay $500.00 down on the table", you obviously brought the rifle that is going to kick everybody's azz".. I then said, look at my rifle, it's just got a tiny little fluted barrel on it... "You know you are going to kick my azz with your rifle.. Lets lay some money down".... The guy turns to me and says, "you think i'm a big dummy?, I've seen how you shoot"....
.. Hey, it wouldn't be fun and interesting if you couldn't mess with people, huh buddy.... I'm for damn sure not the best and I've even been beaten by girls and old guys shooting beat up old Savages and Steven's 200's... One of the best beatings I ever got (I mean we, as in our whole club) was when this damn guy came to one of our rimfire shoots with a little kids chipmunk rifle. No it wasn't big stick either... This chipmunk rifle was kind of decked out with some nice peeps on it and low and behold the sob shot 5 perfects in a row.... Made us all look bad... At least back then I wasn't using a target rifle, like everyone else in the club was... I had an excuse.. Ha ha..
