One of my favorites from Trijicon
There are a great many combat optics you can float on your boat, but much of what I like is the dressed down versions. I still have pretty good eye sight for my age and I find many of these red dot and reticles to blur or obscure targets and that just pisses me off at times. I’ve done enough steel plate shooting to know that you can’t see steel plates at 200yds unless they are in broad sunlight and or have a strong contrasting background. I learned this while looking forward to a day of shooting with my primary firearms instructor when he took me to his Class III friendly range.
I get bored shooting handguns and moved over to the steel Carbine range and starget plinking. I couldn’t ID a 6″ plate at 100yds with an Eotech and the Red Dot I had on a 10/22 was just as difficult. I recently picked up a few Trijicon ACOGS and have various Carbines with the Trijicon TA01-NSN. These optics give you 4×32 visibility and also have backup iron sights mounted on the top. I believe Trijicon is re-thinking the way they mount sights for CQB on the top of the Trijicons, but the NSN works well. The drawback to the ACOG is that it isn’t as good in close up fighting, but you can’t beat iron sights for short ranges.