Originally posted by Hangtime
Of course, I could be totally wrong.. never bothered much with reflex optics.. not my cup of tea. On the ones I've played with, I've found the reflex sights decent up to about 75 yards.. beyond that, no better than good iron battle sights... worse even, since the damn things usually pull your head up from a decent cheek weld. I prefer a large diamater red dot (52-54mm) 2x scope for carbines, particulary in 'scout' configuration.
Of course, a decent RIFLE deserves a decent scope. 
Hangtime,
You deserve a good reflex sight! You gotta try out the EOTech or Aimpoint. Different systems but once you get used to the idea of focusing on the target with both eyes and not the sight, you'll be a convert
Just zero it for where you expect to be shooting it. If you know your ballistics, you'll be able to compensate. Like most scopes, you'll need to get a cheek pad if you're not getting a proper cheek weld.
Red dot and reflex sights are unlike scopes and iron sights. the virtue of its design allows a much faster sight aquisition. Having an accurate/error free one will asure you're on target everytime (provided you do your marksmanship part).
In every instance, everytime I saw my opponents in Sat's games, I shot them before they shot me. Everytime. There were 3 instances where I got sloppy and didn't hit them on my first try, my fault, not the sight's. I ended up getting them on the followup though.
Keep in mind this was my very first day playing Airsoft. My 37 years experience of shooting paid off. All of my opponents were almost half my age.
We "old" guys have a game we can actually compete in using tactics and marksmanship
