Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you have to get an ACOG (I do know where there's a TA33 that can probably be had for $750 though). I'm just saying that you've already bought good to excellent components to make the gun, why not put glass that's worthy of the build? It's like completely restoring a '68 Corvette and putting a 6 cylinder engine in it. Sure, it'll work, but...

I've been where you are. I completely understand the "gag" reflex when looking at the price of optics. I've also learned the hard way that cheap optics are just cheap. The optic on my long range rifle cost twice the price of the rifle.

Let me come at this from a different angle...
Why did a $275 forearm and a $200 trigger (what you actually paid for them isn't important) not cause you to balk at the price, when you could have bought a $100 forearm and an $85 trigger that would have worked?

This is a rhetorical question. We don't really need the answer. It's just an attempt to provoke thought from a different angle.

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