Author Topic: Urgent recommendation requested Aimpoint M2 (Read 779 times)

BGBMAW · « **Reply #15 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:55:11 PM »

miko..can i read more tank stories please...

And i had an aimpoint on my mini 14..hated it..I wanted to shoot longer range..and the 1x mag was usless for me..

its now on my 10-22 ruger with a bull barrel..

medicboy · « **Reply #16 on:** April 08, 2003, 02:56:59 PM »

Are you limited to a mini-14? I sold mine a few years ago, couldn't stand the POS. If I didn't live in California I would have an AR15, but they arn't legal here. I guess that pistol style grip makes them so much more deadly than the mini....?

Scootter · « **Reply #17 on:** April 08, 2003, 03:07:33 PM »

Not worth the price IMHO

Not all that rugged and I don't want a sight dependent on a power supply.

miko2d · « **Reply #18 on:** April 08, 2003, 03:26:36 PM »

Thanks for input, guys.

BGBMAW - I have a side mounted 4x on the Mini, quickly attacheable/detacheable that allows me to use iron sights - in case I wanted to shoot further than 100 yards but I do not see myself doing that except for hunting.
I need the red dot to cut down the time to aim, not increase accuracy or distance.
Besides cutting teh field of view and necessitating closing of one eye, having a magnification sight is a great insentive to spend that extra second or two aiming - and get one's head ventilated in the process.

medicboy - Yes, I am limited to a mini-14, living in NYC. It's not such a POS for the money and can be made considerably more accurate with $80 and some work - which I am doing. It's fun to tinker but if I had a choice, I would have gone with an AR or an M1A or some other rifle.
Hopefully I'll leave NYC eventually and install the sight I am getting now on another weapon.

Scooter - that's why I wanted co-witnessing. to be able to practice with the iron sights and use them in case the battery dies before advertised 1,000-10,000 hours. We all know how those things are...
I considered a Trijicon that does not need battery - but it does not mount low enough.

miko

lord dolf vader · « **Reply #19 on:** April 08, 2003, 04:41:41 PM »

the idea is the iron sights on a rifel can br brought to bear in a single skeet shooter type motion.

with aimpoint style there is a almost non perceptible ajustment to the sights picture with some interuption of sight with the rim of the scope.

with a rifle those really really bright end pieces are great but really unless its low light you dont need thos.

anonymous · « **Reply #20 on:** April 08, 2003, 08:54:17 PM »

yo miko2d sorry dude i posted my last message then went to work just got home again so didnt know about this being time critical. could we use electronic mail for future comms on this?

miko2d · « **Reply #21 on:** April 16, 2003, 11:27:48 AM »

Aimpoint rocks, tritium sucks.

Got my Aimpoint ML2. Good work, Sweden! You look throught it with one eye and have the other eye open and see absolutely no difference in the pucture - as clear, as bright, no shift, etc.

I also tried the tritium-lighted reflex sights. The cheap ones with large ocular and light collector still create a dot that is invisible in bright light - and brighter than necessary in the dark. Especially once one's eyes adapt, one has no way to tone it down.
The much more expensive Trijicon has small window, the dot that was visible better in the bright light but the picture was noticeably darker due to tinted?/layered? optics (which may be the reason why the dot was visible). In the low light conditions the dot is too bright and the extra darkening really hurts.

If I need to see worse in the dark, I can just put on sunglasses or close my eyes altogether.

I did not look at EOTech since it would not allow me co-witness anyway.

miko