Mr. Blasty Accessory Poll Update
Got some good responses to the poll. Marc recommended the Trijicon Reflex, which I had read was problematic in low light since it is fiber optic and requires no batteries. I ordered the EOTech this weekend. We’ll see how it works.
November 29th, 2004 at 6:27 pm
The Trijicon has a tritium illuminated dot and the fiber optics are there to boost it for daylight shooting. The sight is amazing to see and use even at night. I like you wouldn’t even consider it if it weren’t for my Army bud recommending it. He did so I did – after all he’d used it on bad guys in Afghanistan and Iraq. And even though he’s a 43 year old non-com he’s as hard as steel and he’d probably kick my ass if I didn’t take his advice.
November 30th, 2004 at 6:56 am
I like the ACOGS a lot. Tough. Most of the soldiers end up taping over part of the fiber optic light gathering fiber on the top though, to turn the interior chevron and bullet-drop compensator black instead of red.
4X magnification. Not bad. The bullet drop compensator for M855. (Army Green-tip 62 grain 5.56 ammo), seems to work, kind of…on most of them. Depends on barrel length and shooter. It also DOESN’T work sometimes and our soldiers get some wild hold-offs over 300 yards in Squad Designated Rifleman class.
I’d say a better trigger would be the biggest help. The Jewel two-stage in best, followed by the Rock River for price.
Past that I would float the barrel. Any barrel shoots better floated. (Maybe Mr Blasty IS floated…)
Problem with many sights, (EO-tech, the CCO M68) is that the red dot is so big, even turned down, that its bigger than a man-sized target over 300 yards.
Anyone look at the ELCANS? They seem the best. We are mounting them on SAWS and 240Bs and they work better than ACOGS on M16 and Variants.
ACOGS seem to come in various MOA clicks by the way. 1/3s common. Weird. Tap them a couple times after you click the elevation or windage.
Dont forget that a moderate amount of sling pressure or even support pressure can bend the barrel on an M16….but it doesn’t bend the optical sight sitting back there on top of the receiver. You can move a group all over a 6X6 target frame just by pressuring up a rifle. (again, even downward pressure on a ruck when you are shooting prone) Avoid any fancy sling mount that touches the front sight, of course…put that sling in the swivel. And touching the 30 round mag to the ground changes the zero, but thats another story..
November 30th, 2004 at 8:57 am
Thanks for the comments. The two things I liked about the EOTech is that it comes with a mount and the reticle is a 1MOA dot inside a 65MOA circle (i.e., the size of a person @ 100 yds for range estimation).
November 30th, 2004 at 7:37 pm
I’d like to have a smaller dot on my Trijicon reflex. I may have mentioned that it’s hard to hold tight groups on small targets with it. I could have tried the triangle but I got what “Army bud” had in his setup. Ultimately I plan to have the Trijicon setup as a fast access sight side mounted for targets out to ~40 yards or so and a scope on top for further out in a 3-gun type setup.