Originally Posted by
theJanitor
My concern is mostly that I'll forget to turn on the optic, or that it will go out due to a battery problem. I don't really want to ditch a $600 optic if the battery went dead, I just want to seamlessly move to a BUIS. The lenses are well protected, so I'm thinking glass breakage as of less concern and I can keep looking through the glass.
Also, the high optics don't allow me to do a visual check of the dot. Normally, I'll flip up the rear, line up the irons, and check that my dot hasn't moved. It's a simple way for me to check if the optic has lost zero, the mounts loosened, etc. Can't do that with 1.93/2.26" heights.
I saw a VeilSolutions pic this weekend of an EXPS on a Unity riser, and an offset RMR as a secondary aiming solution. It seems oddly redundant at first, but I guess that's the point, and I'd rather have an offset MRDS than offset irons