ScrapmasterFlex
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This will probably ruffle a few feathers and possibly just make people mad but I believe it's worth posting
With firearms optics, there is one absolute Golden Rule: BUY Once, CRY Once! Spend AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE on Optics - ALL Your Optics, AS MUCH as you can, the very best optic you can. You will NEVER EVER Regret having too much optic or "too good" a scope, you WILL be mad when your low-quality optic breaks, AND IT WILL, Eventually.
I have two experiences with purchasing low-quality optics. I bought two at around the same time, when I was about brand new to buying/owning firearms. A larger sized NcStar red dot /laser combo sight I bought for my Dad to go with the Zastava PAP 7.62x39mm I bought him for his 60th Bday, and a little NcStar open-type "reflex sight" w/ 4 reticles for my new 15-22 (You see this type of sight EVERYWHERE, Cheaper Than Dirt sells about 5 of them, all the exact same w/ different brands, they are everywhere. For about $40 bucks. I've seen people try to charge $100 and up for them, acting like its a premium version, it's not lol.)
The Laser/Light combo is about useless. I am not sure it ever really zeroed, and it certainly never seems to hit where it's supposed to hit whenever the rifle comes out. I honestly would remove it immediately the first time I took out that rifle in the defense/in the case of SHTF etc.
The little "holosight" type thing, I had some success right at the beginning. I read how changing the reticles loses your zero each time, so I chose the circle and dot reticle (very much like an EOTech), zeroed it with minimal problems, and then I had an amazing time at the 25-yd Indoor Range... it was shooting out the star ! Amazing really.
Then about 4-6 months after I bought it, my best friend was shooting it, when it somehow split horizontally down the middle. Like , half of it (with the glass part and battery compartment) split away like peeling off half of a sandwich, and the bottom half w/ now-exposed circuitry sat connected to the rail. So about $45 and $75, down the drain really.
I bought an Aimpoint Micro R-1 (two of them, one for my at-the-time 5.56 AK and one for my 15-22, the other one sits on a shotgun now) and a Daniel Defense mount and put it on my 15-22. In two words : Amazing & Outstanding. This has sat on my 15-22 for the last 4+ years, and it's not coming off. AMAZING .... People shooting my 15-22 declare it the finest and "funnest" aka Most Fun firearm they have shot, and not only my Dad who had never shot an AR before, but my 30 year old younger sister who cried the first time she shot a handgun , can hit cans at 25yds like it's going outta style. Just like a pro, bustin caps left and right.
I have Nikon ProStaffs on three .22LR sporter rifles (a pair of 597s and a Savage Mark II) and they're great, great scopes. a Monarch 5-20x44 sits on my .308 700 build (and I WISH I spent the $1500 on a top quality scope when I could have). And I have two high quality lasers , a Viridian X5L-RS on the Saiga-12 and a LaserMax Genesis on my M&P22C ... you just NEVER cheap out on optics... and when you buy the top quality or at least, Real and Good quality, you are very rewarded and will never be upset at the results.
A fake ACOG, in the end, is one of the worst you can buy. ACOGs are famous for their (dual?) illumination, of tritium or tritium and fiber-optics, AND Their intense, amazing ruggedness and durability. A fake ACOG has neither the illumination nor any semblance of durability, so it's a total fugazy.
With firearms optics, there is one absolute Golden Rule: BUY Once, CRY Once! Spend AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE on Optics - ALL Your Optics, AS MUCH as you can, the very best optic you can. You will NEVER EVER Regret having too much optic or "too good" a scope, you WILL be mad when your low-quality optic breaks, AND IT WILL, Eventually.
I have two experiences with purchasing low-quality optics. I bought two at around the same time, when I was about brand new to buying/owning firearms. A larger sized NcStar red dot /laser combo sight I bought for my Dad to go with the Zastava PAP 7.62x39mm I bought him for his 60th Bday, and a little NcStar open-type "reflex sight" w/ 4 reticles for my new 15-22 (You see this type of sight EVERYWHERE, Cheaper Than Dirt sells about 5 of them, all the exact same w/ different brands, they are everywhere. For about $40 bucks. I've seen people try to charge $100 and up for them, acting like its a premium version, it's not lol.)
The Laser/Light combo is about useless. I am not sure it ever really zeroed, and it certainly never seems to hit where it's supposed to hit whenever the rifle comes out. I honestly would remove it immediately the first time I took out that rifle in the defense/in the case of SHTF etc.
The little "holosight" type thing, I had some success right at the beginning. I read how changing the reticles loses your zero each time, so I chose the circle and dot reticle (very much like an EOTech), zeroed it with minimal problems, and then I had an amazing time at the 25-yd Indoor Range... it was shooting out the star ! Amazing really.
Then about 4-6 months after I bought it, my best friend was shooting it, when it somehow split horizontally down the middle. Like , half of it (with the glass part and battery compartment) split away like peeling off half of a sandwich, and the bottom half w/ now-exposed circuitry sat connected to the rail. So about $45 and $75, down the drain really.
I bought an Aimpoint Micro R-1 (two of them, one for my at-the-time 5.56 AK and one for my 15-22, the other one sits on a shotgun now) and a Daniel Defense mount and put it on my 15-22. In two words : Amazing & Outstanding. This has sat on my 15-22 for the last 4+ years, and it's not coming off. AMAZING .... People shooting my 15-22 declare it the finest and "funnest" aka Most Fun firearm they have shot, and not only my Dad who had never shot an AR before, but my 30 year old younger sister who cried the first time she shot a handgun , can hit cans at 25yds like it's going outta style. Just like a pro, bustin caps left and right.
I have Nikon ProStaffs on three .22LR sporter rifles (a pair of 597s and a Savage Mark II) and they're great, great scopes. a Monarch 5-20x44 sits on my .308 700 build (and I WISH I spent the $1500 on a top quality scope when I could have). And I have two high quality lasers , a Viridian X5L-RS on the Saiga-12 and a LaserMax Genesis on my M&P22C ... you just NEVER cheap out on optics... and when you buy the top quality or at least, Real and Good quality, you are very rewarded and will never be upset at the results.
A fake ACOG, in the end, is one of the worst you can buy. ACOGs are famous for their (dual?) illumination, of tritium or tritium and fiber-optics, AND Their intense, amazing ruggedness and durability. A fake ACOG has neither the illumination nor any semblance of durability, so it's a total fugazy.
