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I don’t go to that gunsmith any more.

Both emit some light forward, but the Eotech is actually visible off-bore axis, not being tube enclosed. The killflash for the Aimpoint is to remove glare from the glass lens in daylight, a problem the Eotech shares, but which can’t be as easily remedied on the latter optic.

Zoiks! It’d go on forever.

Now then, that cartridge deathmatch you just did sucked almost as bad as a Glock in .40sw. You should select at least 4 or 5 cartridges to square off in a no holds barred death match. The .223 will be like the token karate guy in ultimate fighting challenge who gets his ass kicked in two seconds.

Heh. Never done the glock v. 1911 deathmatch. I figure that one would really piss folks off. May have to start working one up. Maybe for that one, I should elicit reader response first? Of course, the AR v. AK never quite turned into the flameware I thought it would. And I’ll do the 223 v. 308 death match now:

Suck factor: 223 somewhat sucks. 308 doesn’t suck at all. Winner, 308

Chris, I concur for the AKA. What do you have on the SOCOM?

Countertop, how’s that not blogging thing coming?

.223 sucks and you know it!

Ditto!

it all doesn’t matter much, on account of your still a Glock dork. I’m still really steamed about that one. I can barely function these days and I’m going to start sending in cryptic hate male ‘n stuff.

Brilliant. Carnaby Fudge might become my new favorite blog.

I have some kind of Aimpoint copy on my M1A Socom, which seems to work fairly well.

I really like the EO Tech sight picture more than the Aimpoint dot.

It’s all a little academic for me, though, because I am a pistolero and seldom shoot my rifles.

Hmmm, how ’bout another death match. I don’t know optics so this one was interesting but not inflaming like the glock-1911 death match. That was more fun. Almost as good as reading a Ted Rall comic.

How about a combat rifle cartridge death match? The .223 sucks and you know it!

The militarized eotechs are tough hombres: they have steel hoods, and the electronics are hardened against shock by flooding the compartment with epoxy. It’s water sealed to 15ish(???) meters, which is about as deep as I’d dive for a rifle I carelessly dropped overboard anyway. A number of different reticles are available on the Eotech, and their latest model is a lot flatter than the classic holosight.

Yes, cold could be an advantage but the difference is 10 degrees centigrade. Regarding battery life, you realize 1,100 hours is almost 46 days. If the SHTF longer than that, I can change batteries since I’ll obviously have time on my hands. Granted, it’s not five years.

And if your glass breaks on the aimpoint, it no worky no more. And if you have an AK and want to cowitness, you go with the Aimpoint. Period.

Id score environment 1-0-1 in favor of Aimpoint.

Of course, All things aren’t equal and some of these catagories deserve to count more than others. Like battery life. And cowitness If the SHTF your gonna be thrilled you went with Aimpoint. Seems that the battery life and cowitnessing (on such a battery dependent feature) needs to be much more heavily weighted to Aimpoint. Same with Glass Breakage.

That would make it a 5-3-2 vote in favor of EOTech

The bias in the training community seems to edge in favor of the Aimpoint due to reasons of battery life and general ruggedness.

My heart says the Eotech is cooler, with its Donut O’ Death reticle (plus, Aimpoint never sent me any happenin’ tee shirts), but my head has a hard time disagreeing with Pat Rogers…