Holograph Scopes

I have had several EOTECH's and they all went tits up. The battery cap has been a problem for quite a while and I have had some eat a battery in a week with very little use. I will not buy another.

The Aimpoint has a battery life of several years. You can leave them on, they will shut down, and when they sense movement, they will come back on. It comes back on immediately.

[xdpatriot]

I have an EOTECH on my wife's AR. I have an Trijicon on mine.

The EOTECH stopped working at one point and I had to buy another battery cap for it. ($20) I've know some guys that hated their EOTECH and some guys who loved 'em. One guy told me he was replacing his EOTECH every 6 months overseas.

The only experience I have with Trijicon is the ACOG. I have never heard anyone say anything bad about an ACOG. Yeah, they're expensive, but you get what you pay for. Their reliabilty is legendary, plus no batteries! I really like mine although it does take some getting used to the small eye relief.

I don't have any experience with the AIMPOINTs, but I have heard good things about them. I've heard alot of people say that the battery life on the AIMPOINT is way longer than the EOTECH. I know my wife's EOTECH's batteries don't last long at all. Hers is the 516 that uses CR123 batteries. My frined that has a 512 that uses AA batteries tells me he doesn't have problems with his battery life.

[1Admin]

Shot a CAR15 with an ACOG a couple times and it was nice- and actually worked ;) (key words, "a couple times").

Had an ACOG 339 on one of my Polytech AK's for a while years ago. 3X magnification helped seeing the target enough to whack it regularly at 300 yards. I've since moved that unit over to an M1A and like one of the staff here commented after shooting it at 300 yards

"you feel like your cheating with it." LOL

The nice thing about an ACOG is that stuff happens and no matter what, I don't have to worry about batteries with it. Interfaces nicely with a PVS14 also.

Fundamentals are fundamentals, no question there. However you get to a point sometimes as you age (I did) where a little magnification helps at distance. Specially with those "inaccurate dumb commie rifles" some of us like to shoot ;0

[Klayton]

OK all, lets get back to survival & preparedness... :)

Thinking of adding a holograph scope to the Mrs. new AR.

Aimpoint (only offers red dot retina-I think)
vs
EOTech (offers different retinas-other than just plain red dot)
vs
Trijicon (ya that bad boy is bookoo $$$)

As a side note, do they make lasers (for my handgun) that puts out a larger "dot" at 20-30feet? Being partially colorblind my current laser is VERY hard to see in daylight hours past 20 feet. Yes I know it also probably needs a new battery, but always been hard for me to quickly ID the small red dot at distance in daylight... :cool:

So any of you experienced with any of these for the AR platform? :confused:
What pros and cons can you enlighten me with? :confused:

LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!