Comments on: New Aimpoint

By: Linoge

Linoge — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:57:43 +0000

Bleh. At that price, I may as well get a Trijicon (sp?) and call it even. Either way, considering I am not really concerned about hitting things hundreds of yards away (or even a hundred yards away, given ranges in my area), I think I will stick wtih my $30 POS.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:25:01 +0000

like any new piece of gadgetry, this will fall in price as the months go on… hell the first Intel Core 2 Duos came out with a retail price well above $1200… now you can get em for $250… and thats in less than 2 years… i suspect that these will be available for under $500 in less than a year

By: Gun Blobber

Gun Blobber — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:23:00 +0000

$5 bills is a bit much when you can get this for $40 – mounts included! Mailed to your home direct from Commie China!

Actually, i did buy one of those recently, more as an experiment than anything else. I’ve got a Tapco T6 stock on one of my SKS’s, and it’s got that gas tube handguard rail… I wanted to see if something mounted there could ever hold a zero. This was about the cheapest thing I could find. I will report on its workingness whenever I get around to testing it.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:53:46 +0000

$8 bills is a bit much when you can get another aimpoint for $4bills and a mount for $1 bill.

By: Les Jones

Les Jones — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:51:47 +0000

I’ll make a habit of changing the batteries every leap year.

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:29:02 +0000

‘Cept in 8 years and 1 day when you happen to need it.

By: Les Jones

Les Jones — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:31:48 +0000

The cool thing about the Aimpoints is that as per the manufacturer’s recommendation you leave them on the NVD setting. You never turn them off, so you never have to turn them on. They’re like iron sights that way – just pick up the gun and shoot without fiddling with a power button. That’s pretty darned appealing.

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:24:57 +0000

ColtCCO, that’s still not worth it. I just picked up 16AA batteries for $7.

Let’s say you go through one set a month, requiring 24 batteries a year for 8 years.

192 batteries over 8 years = 12 packs of 16. 12 x $7 = $84.

By: DirtCrashr

DirtCrashr — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:03:08 +0000

If I submersed to a depth of 150M I wouldn’t need either anymore…
Aren’t scopes supposed to cost as much as the rifle or else you’re a dumbass cheapskate? That’s what I keep reading in Teh GunMagazeens – but I don’t know nuthin’ about hunting – never done it.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:09:41 +0000

But, dude, it’s tacticool!!!!

By: workinwifdakids

workinwifdakids — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:08:27 +0000

$800 for a sight? Seriously, I must live a separate life.

By: ColtCCO

ColtCCO — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:03:12 +0000

It’s pretty sexy, has a built in killflash, and I like the new slick mount. Retail is more like $700. With an 8 year life, it’d save you quite a bit over the next 8 years on AA batteries compared to the EOThingy.

ColtCCO

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:56:55 +0000

Get a Tacpoint.

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:55:58 +0000

For $800, it better cook dinner and clean up afterwards.

Otherwise, that’s just overpriced. At least for my needs.