Choose your reticle wisely so you don’t regret it later!
We’re dealing with a lot of first time AR15 owners, both Law Enforcement and Civilian, since we’re in the business we hear a lot of the same questions coming from them. Some ask us questions like “is the ACOG better than the Eotech” like there is some type of durability difference in the designs. Well, all of them are not bullet proof even though they are meant to send bullets down range but the Eotech holographic sights and the Trijicon ACOG have very different purposes. Trijicon has optics that I would better compare to the Eotech like the Trijicon Reflex sights or even the Trijicon TA44 optics. They are different but they aren’t dramatically different in application. A 1.5×16 Circle dot reticle is a better comparison to an Eotech 512 with a 2 MOA dot and a 65 MOA circle than the TA31F-G chevron.
One of the mistakes people make with rifle scopes and optics is they get optics with too much magnification. If you look at the price of what the Trijicon ACOGS for sale are listed as, that’s a very expensive mistake. You do get what you pay for an there are plenty of $200 and under military looking scopes you can put on your AR15, but they won’t last 5000rds before you break something or find out it won’t hold zero. I’ve seen plenty of rifle scopes get retired but never had a Trijicon break on a rifle unless it was shot. Also be careful about what type or red dot size you get because the bigger the dot the harder it will be to see a target with that optic and longer ranges due to it covering the target.