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All dressed up and ready for the first dance!
Current configuration of my .223 carbine with SIG optics.
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All dressed up and ready for the first dance!
While the SIG optics on my .223 carbine serve their intended function, they don't excel at shooting small groups at 100 yds or more. The best I could do was about a 2 1/2 in. group at 100 yds with the RDS when I first built the gun and I'm sure the gun will shoot better than that. I have on hand a Burris compact 3-9 that I was contemplating using, but with it's standard duplex reticle, it's not something that I would want to leave on the gun. While it might be OK for shooting groups, it would not be what I would want to use for fast close range work, particularly at 3X. I had considered a Vortex Gen II Viper scope, but with that I would need in addition an offset red dot for fast CQB type shooting. So coming back to the original premise of this thread for an all in one solution, I came back full circle to my original choice for the .300 BO, the Shepherd scope.
Have you considered trying the Burris 3x9 with an offset RDS? One has to just mentally decide that between 0 and 50 yards, the offset is a primary and not a secondary.
With this in mind, it wouldn’t be necessary to have true 1x on an LPVO? Could make maneuvering and tactics easier and faster.
No, not really. First of all, the duplex reticle doesn't do anything for me. And again, I really want the all-in-one set up. Perhaps I'm being unreasonably stubborn on that point. I understand the tactical advantage of shooting around a left side corner. I doubt that I will face that very often. I'm over not having a true 1X. Plus, this gun is mostly a range toy, but one never knows when any firearm may be pressed into serious life and death duty.
We do very close range rifle up to 25 yds max. as it is done on the pistol range. I have shot with the current SIG set up and went back and forth using the 3X magnifier. One run I'd do it with, another without. I felt it lended no real advantage at those close targets and these were such quick courses of fire that there was no time to switch back and forth between using the 3X or not during the same run.
Now March!I also have out a back order for a ZEV stripped G19 slide from DVOR, a subsidiary of Optics Planet. When the order was placed, the slide was supposed to be available in a couple of weeks. The availability date changes almost daily and is currently sometime in late February.
Make that April 1st, they must take me for a fool!Now March!