It doesn't matter, @JCN! You never dick a guy in the shooter! Everyone knows that! Dicking a guy in the shooter!? That's just...that's just weak...I can't believe you, @JCN.
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
^ my take on this discussion.
All LOUD NOISES aside, my biggest complaint with every single optic I've tried is lack of useable auto adjust. The dots I've used, if turned bright enough to be seen against a light colored background/target in full sunlight, are completely unusable in dim light - the flare washes out the ability to see the target.
The auto adjust models I've tried have either been not responsive enough to rapidly changing light conditions (e.g. moving from well lit/out doors to indoor to dim indoors), or unable to "brighten" when shooting from a dim location at a target that's brightly lit.
When someone fixes this problem, I'll give it another go. If you can put it in a package with a window the size of the SRO, with the durability of an Aimpoint, and battery life that's measured in months, not days, those would be pluses.
+1 and the bolded part is #1 for me. I prefer simplicity in weapons and that's not what I'm seeing from the high tempo optic enthusiasts. I totally get the top of the food chain in public sector combatants are leveraging the optics advantages. I ain't them, nor can I drop off any problems with the unit armorer and use the identical 2nd or 3rd spare.
Re the OP, it may well be generational to some extent in my case.
“Remember, being healthy is basically just dying as slowly as possible,” Ricky Gervais
“Remember, being healthy is basically just dying as slowly as possible,” Ricky Gervais
+1 I thought that was me about a year ago, that my vision was hitting critical mass for shit. Then last Fall got double cataract surgeries and I have terrific distance vision and very workable sight pictures. Best in years.
It sounds weird but I wish I'd gotten those cataracts 20 years ago.
“Remember, being healthy is basically just dying as slowly as possible,” Ricky Gervais
As an aside, the best auto light sensors I’ve found are the RMR and the RMSc.
Both have been excellent for me in a variety of lighting conditions.
You do have to take care that the sensor is clean and unobstructed for best performance.
Holosun’s light sensor isn’t very good.
For the extreme case of sitting in darkness and shooting to a bright sunny outside, accurate BUIS are helpful in that case.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.