Eotech magnifier gives you distance
We’ve heard time and time again from our friends and customers that are serving in the military that the Eotech gun sights are the fastest combat sights around. I recently got to check out some of the optics coming from Trijicon and they are really making some nice 1x magnification gun sights also. It’s been over 2 decades that the ACOGS have been around, but it seems that just about everyone and their dog has them on an AR15 and in many cases, the Trijicon ACOG is a bit of an over kill depending on the gun sights that you are using. We got a first hand account today about a guy using a Trijicon gun sight in a police call that identified an individual that was thought to have been holding a gun. Someone with a standard Eotech gun sight could not identify an object in his hand and there was a call to shoot.
The only real drawback to the Eotech gun sights besides magnification are the batteries they are using. Some people have issues with the CR123 Eotech sights, and mostly want the AA battery versions. At some point someone from Eotech is going to have to come out with a non battery illuminated version of the sight because given the trends and technological advancements I have seen in the last decade, anything that is battery powered now is going to be obsolete in the near future. Flashlights are going to get better when it comes to being rechargeable and holding power and gun sights should be self illuminated or controlled without battery power.
Modern combat optics are becoming more and more advanced. Back in the day people just used the European pole or standard crosshairs for rifle scopes, but not anymore. These days combat optics may be red dots, green dots, illuminated reticles, bullet drop compensators etched in glass or Mil-dots. Combat optics like IOR scopes may have a reticle that is almost a sizing guide for range estimation where you just simply hold the target into a range estimator and then make adjustements on your target knobs or just hold over.