With all the interesting discussions about PDWs recently, I got to wondering what the best magnifiers are to mount behind an RDS. I’d prefer something that can be removed completely without too much hassle and quickly mounted again without losing “zero” so my red dot appears in the same place in the magnifier window. Let’s say you have a rifle caliber PDW that you take with you on long trips that bring you far from home, like an AR pistol with a Law folder or something. The magnifier would be carried in the bag with the PDW, not necessarily mounted on it during transport. Then, should the coronapocalypse become the actual apocalypse while you’re far from home and only have your short barrel PDW instead of your preferred longer barrel LPVO setup, you at least have the magnifier if you want to PID at longer ranges.
I know that years ago there were the Aimpoint 3x magnifiers and the Eotech G33 3x. Now I’m seeing Aimpoint has a 6x that weighs only a small amount more than the 3x, Eotech seems to have 3x, 4x, and 5x magnifiers, Vortex has two 3x magnifiers, and ADM has their FLIK line of magnifiers as well. The RDS this magnifier would be paired with for this hypothetical scenario is an Aimpoint T2 on an absolute cowitness Scalarworks mount. The gun is not equipped with an IR laser because I don’t own NODs.