Anybody ever have their AR optic go down while in use?

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tunashark
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Post by tunashark »

Every time I've shot an EOTech it's failed on me. Military and civilian. Had one fail during qualification, still scored expert thanks to co-witnessed irons.
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My first Eotech was a 511 which uses Hard to find N batteries It has a rated run time of 20 hours at low brightness. Needless to say, it would go dark on me all the time. It is the worst HWS ever made period.
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has an Aimpoint T1 die in the middle of a competition once, I kept trying to finish the stage but realized I was just wasting ammo, yelled 50,000 hours my ass and tossed the rifle in the cart......I watched the dot get dimmer and dimmer, I adjusted it brighter then all the way to 10 power and finally it just faded away. :lol:

I don't run back ups cause I don't need 10 lbs of shit on my competition rifle, I was still able to look/sight thru the glass, just couldn't make a shot on a 3 inch plate :roll: , in a zombie/riot :shock: ( see what I did there :mrgreen: ) type situation you'd still be able to shoot a man sized target, just not with great accuracy
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It's funny that this topic came up. I have Mueller Quick Shot rifle scopes on my AR and AK. When the latest wave of madness began I was a little concerned about the possibility of this happening, so I pulled them off and sighted both rifles in with iron sights. I'm lethal (~1 MOA) to 75-100 yds on the iron sights.
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Always want to have backup irons.
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