Anyone here into firearms?

MacCool

If you're going to use your rifle mostly for shooting between 100-400 yards, a magnfier on an RDS is not a good solution. Far better off going with a 4x magnified optic. Magnifiers are a half-assed bandaid to try to make an RDS do something it's not designed to do well.

Also, a lot of it also has to do with the quality of the RDS itself. The nature of the reticle makes a difference, for example. An Eotech reticle with 65MOA ring is only a fair long range choice. An Aimpoint with a 2MOA red dot is even worse, and a 4MOA dot like on the Aimpoint T-1 is almost unusable with a magnifier. And those are just the high quality optics. When we start talking the fleet of cheap Chinese knockoffs like Primary Arms sells, that can be a real exercise in frustration, especially with a magnifier.

m4a1mustang

I bet we gave those to them via Fast & Furious. Probably out of Barry's personal collection.

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I'm currently running a comp M4S. I have not had a chance to shoot it at "longer" distances, yet, though.

As a civilian, 0-300 yards is my main concern, with maximum emphasis on 0-25 yards. 0-25 yards is the most likely distance that someone will assault me from. 25-300 yards is the most likely distance I will shoot a deer/hog/whatever from.

I can tag the targets just fine with irons out to 300+, and shoot around 2 MOA at 100 yards with them and M855 using something to brace/rest the rifle against. I doubt a RDS with 2MOA dot will compromise my ability any.

That said, I tried to like the 4X and then 3.5X ACOG's. They just didn't do it at 0-25 yards, the area I place the MOST emphasis on. The 1.5X Mini-Acog I had kicked ***. The only problem was transitional lighting killed things for me, and the green reticle washed out on foliage. Sure, 532nm wavelength is not found in nature, but that reticle isnlt 532nm in ALL lighting, especially shade. So I went with red, and that sucked at night. Very very poor behind a white light.

So, here is what i ended up with. *still waiting on my Form 4 tax-stamp so I can throw the SF 556-212 on there*

stunner253

Whats up fellas heres my latest AR build. Sorry for the crappy iPhone photo its mostly Spike's Tactical arms.

eddieconfetti

very very nice.

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stunner253

Thank you sir!

xdeslitx

one more day till i get my springer

jgvill

Did you get it yet?

xdeslitx

yup got it yesterday and shot 200 rounds

jgvill

Did you get the Trophy Match version? I used to have one but in .45

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BlackZeda

Very nice, clean AR. I like the Spike's Tacktical stuff. I didn't like the brown Magpul components at first, but seeing build like yours and MacCool's, it is growing on me. I might just do that for my next build...

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stunner253

Thanks man. Me too i didn't like the dark earth color at first but it grew on me plus i want to be a little different. My next build will be an AR pistol Noveske lower and adams arm Gas piston upper with 7" barrel. Im gonna build this with all black furniture.

Jerggy13

Got this 1943 Walther P-38 from my father in-law. Had to order a take down pin that fits right under the barrel in that hole. Otherwise the gun is in great shape!

Can't wait to fire her.

Wish list is a Glock 22 Gen 4. Just trying to convince the wife

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BlackZeda

That Walther is a cool gun...I wish someone would just up and give me something like that

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