Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles Recommendations on GOOD combat optic for an AR (5.56)??

I don't doubt him one bit. I was just clearing up what he was saying.

I doubt most everthing I read.....I'm from Missouri

I would be willing to bet on Rost being able to do as stated.

Gotcha

I would not doubt him either ...... he's well capable. I shot some High Power a few years back and watched some amazing riflemen working out to 600 yards with irons.

My father was a DI & Rifle Instructor in the USMC, shot Expert with a rifle - M14. Witnessed some pretty amazing iron sights work by him that I'll never forget.

Fear the Man that only has one rifle, for he knows how to use it.

Most on here don't like 'em, but I dearly love my EOTech 556 NV Compatible sights.

Gunner

Eotechs work great but they are much more fragile than an Aimpoint. An Aimpoint's battery life leave the Eothing in the dust also. I hate the way you have to push buttons to scroll it on. An Aimpoint you can juat slap the knob with a thumb and its on.

I'm liking a Virtex Viper PST 1-4

Eotech's are fine, I've owned numerous eo's. Aimpoints are good to. I had one fail that was that was 12 years old and aimpoint would not fix it. I'm currently using a leupold VXR and I really like it. Also used a burris tac30 and it worked well to. Here is a few pics of some of these.
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Rob,

I have an Eotech XPS 2.2 with an ARMS 40L BUIS on my Colt 6920. It's a nice setup that is very fast for target acquisition.

Klink

gunchamp,
If you don't mind, what kind of scope mounts are you using on on the scoped rifles?

Aimpoint H-1. If you are running nods, then get the T-1. Small, robust, light weight, compact, it is a winner.

Close range: Aimpoint on QD mount
Mid Range: AGOG on QD mount
Longer Range: Quality variable power scope in a QD mount

All of the above with good quality folding irons.

This is how I have mine set up

I have a cardboard toilet paper tube I can put crosshairs in and you can duct tape on...You can have it for $50 shipped by next day air

The burris which is the BCM ar-15 is also a burris QD mount. The S&W 10 on the swimming pool is the american defense recon QD mount. Its a much nicer mount, very well built. A little spendy, but worth it in my opinion.

the LaRue LT-104 is my choice, off and back and it holds zero.

But I need more than one. Whats the cost per unit for say 10 of them.....

Also whats the cost of the towel tube vs the toilet tube?

This wasn't to brag at all. I was not the best in the whole US by far. But it was to show, Irons can do stuff I never expected them to be capable of, in 88 I was a doubter... then probably along about 91 or so I shot a 10 shot rapid fire irons group at 100 prone in a sling that was appx 1.1 inches. And I was starting to learn.
Managed to test ammo with irons and was able to shoot groups around 5/8 inch as I recall. No fancy dial caliper for me yet...

And as noted, it wasn't 22 in 6 inches, but many of them were. I have a 3 inch spotter somewhere, round disc, that they put in your shot holes to mark location each time you shoot. A spindle in the middle and the disc on it. Plunk it in the new hole, paste the old one shut.... that one had 17 holes in it IIRC. That doensn't mean the 17 shot group was 3 inches though. But it was at 600 yards.

I do have a 565 yard ranged with rangefinder shot on a doe with the AR and irons with 4 witnesses.

Anyway don't doubt irons, but you have to get used to them. And I suspect my almost 50 year old eyes wouldn't do as well as they used to at 40....
BTW FWIW High Master rating with the service rifle means irons only, and that 97% of all shots on average, are inside the 10 ring. I am high master service rifle in both XC(200-600) and at LR (600-1000) The LR one isn't truly representative though, as at the time it included 600 yard prone slow matches and that was pretty easy to come by. Doing it ONLY at 800-1000 would be a LOT tougher, though I can clean 800 and 900, 1000 always gave me elevation issues.

The price goes down exponentially as the units ordered goes up. Paper towle tubes are 30% more as they are not as readily available.

Like I have said elsewhere:

Dammit, Rost I want a shooting lesson!