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Posted: 1/7/2010 12:44:50 PM EDT
| I just recently purchased an Eotech 516 and I was wondering who all has to wear prescription lenses, while using. I have glasses but I'm thinking about getting some contacts. I was wondering what's everyone's take on this. I do have a astigmatism. |
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I was just wondering how does a magnifier affect your vision, while using the eotech. I don't wear my glasses while using my other scoped rifles, just wondering. I have been a Aimpoint or EOTech guy since the front post on my irons became blurry (old eyes). I have two Aimpoints and 9 EOtech 512s and love them all. A few years ago I bought two Eotech 3X multipliers and a 4X, all with FTS mounts. I wear glasses and have no problem with the sights but the magnifers magnify the recitle and you don't get a nice round sharp dot. I can use the 1X sights out to 200 yards w/o the magnifiers. Now If I want to go out farther I will scope the rifle. This year I have to get a place to shoot out to 400+ yards with the magnifier and see what happens. I am more accurate at 150-200 yards with just the sight. I think I will be selling the magnifiers soon. |
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I was just wondering how does a magnifier affect your vision, while using the eotech. I don't wear my glasses while using my other scoped rifles, just wondering. I have been a Aimpoint or EOTech guy since the front post on my irons became blurry (old eyes). I have two Aimpoints and 9 EOtech 512s and love them all. A few years ago I bought two Eotech 3X multipliers and a 4X, all with FTS mounts. I wear glasses and have no problem with the sights but the magnifers magnify the recitle and you don't get a nice round sharp dot. I can use the 1X sights out to 200 yards w/o the magnifiers. Now If I want to go out farther I will scope the rifle. This year I have to get a place to shoot out to 400+ yards with the magnifier and see what happens. I am more accurate at 150-200 yards with just the sight. I think I will be selling the magnifiers soon. Eotech claims their magnifier will not magnify the dot only the target profile. Someone else on here told me the aimpint 3x will not change the Eotech reticle size either ..Now I'm confused.. I have also seen screen shots of the reticle through the magnifier and it didn't look different then at 1X...I wonder if its your glassses doing that? |
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I was just wondering how does a magnifier affect your vision, while using the eotech. I don't wear my glasses while using my other scoped rifles, just wondering. I have been a Aimpoint or EOTech guy since the front post on my irons became blurry (old eyes). I have two Aimpoints and 9 EOtech 512s and love them all. A few years ago I bought two Eotech 3X multipliers and a 4X, all with FTS mounts. I wear glasses and have no problem with the sights but the magnifers magnify the recitle and you don't get a nice round sharp dot. I can use the 1X sights out to 200 yards w/o the magnifiers. Now If I want to go out farther I will scope the rifle. This year I have to get a place to shoot out to 400+ yards with the magnifier and see what happens. I am more accurate at 150-200 yards with just the sight. I think I will be selling the magnifiers soon. Eotech claims their magnifier will not magnify the dot only the target profile. Someone else on here told me the aimpint 3x will not change the Eotech reticle size either ..Now I'm confused.. Could be the glasses. My son says he see the dot undistorted, just perfect through the magnifier. Probably these dated eyes. I have also seen screen shots of the reticle through the magnifier and it didn't look different then at 1X...I wonder if its your glassses doing that? Thanx for the clarification. Gotta love getting old 
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I was just wondering how does a magnifier affect your vision, while using the eotech. I don't wear my glasses while using my other scoped rifles, just wondering. I have been a Aimpoint or EOTech guy since the front post on my irons became blurry (old eyes). I have two Aimpoints and 9 EOtech 512s and love them all. A few years ago I bought two Eotech 3X multipliers and a 4X, all with FTS mounts. I wear glasses and have no problem with the sights but the magnifiers magnify the recitle and you don't get a nice round sharp dot. I can use the 1X sights out to 200 yards w/o the magnifiers. Now If I want to go out farther I will scope the rifle. This year I have to get a place to shoot out to 400+ yards with the magnifier and see what happens. I am more accurate at 150-200 yards with just the sight. I think I will be selling the magnifiers soon. Eotech claims their magnifier will not magnify the dot only the target profile. Someone else on here told me the aimpint 3x will not change the Eotech reticle size either ..Now I'm confused.. I have also seen screen shots of the reticle through the magnifier and it didn't look different then at 1X...I wonder if its your glasses doing that? Could be the glasses. My son says he see the dot undistorted, just perfect through the magnifier. Probably these dated eyes. I will try to take a pic through the reticle tomorrow & I will post it. The only way I will be able to tell is if I photograph the magnified reticle and look at it in picture form. I have to go to the optometrist later this month so I think I will bring in a AR10 with the aimpoint & magnifier and ask him to modify my glasses to accommodate any fuzziness.  On second thought I think I will just take a rail with the sight and magnifer mounted and leave the AR10 home. Don't want to clear out his offfice.
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| Sorry but I could not get any pics through the sight or magnifier. I did change to my reading glasses and to my surprise the dot was not distorted. I am afaird the distortion is my eyesight. Too bad because they would be great for 300+ yards if not for my eyes. Oh well, got to get back to watch the Patriots get slaughtered. |
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I've used an Eotech with the Aimpoint 3x magnifier, and the reticle was magnified as well as the target. Before I bought my magnifiers I heard that the reticle was not magnified but after using them I can say they are. You are correct brgator. I wonder if thats also true for the Eotech G23 3X. Because they(Eotech) do state it doesnt effect the reticle. Unless I'm reading it wrong. I'm gonna Email them about it to get a confirmation. IM currently looking at magnifiers and was hoping that wouldnt be the case. |
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Think about it, the reticle is in front of the magnifier... The target your trying to magnify is also in front of the magnifier.
It doesn't effect the reticle because it gets magnified proportionally the same as the target. The reticle does get 3x biggger, but so does the target keeping the MOA dimension the same. ETA: This setup makes it a FFP. Since the first focal point is the reticle and the second would be the magnifier. The reticle will always maintain the same MOA dimensions regardless if its magnified 10x, 20x, etc. If the reticle was behind the magnifier, it would now be a second focal plane. Where the reticle stays the same but the target will change size, throwing off the MOA dimension's of the reticle. |
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Think about it, the reticle is in front of the magnifier... The target your trying to magnify is also in front of the magnifier. It doesn't effect the reticle because it gets magnified proportionally the same as the target. The reticle does get 3x biggger, but so does the target keeping the MOA dimension the same. ETA: This setup makes it a FFP. Since the first focal point is the reticle and the second would be the magnifier. The reticle will always maintain the same MOA dimensions regardless if its magnified 10x, 20x, etc. If the reticle was behind the magnifier, it would now be a second focal plane. Where the reticle stays the same but the target will change size, throwing off the MOA dimension's of the reticle. That's what I was thinking when people keep saying it changes the reticle. It does but only purportionally in respectt to everything else. Some people make it sound as if the MOA is different . like all of a sudden there is a huge bloated reticle on the target. wich there isn't. |
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Gl and have fun. A 50 yard Zero works great and will crossover at 225. A nice flat trajectory. I can hit a quarter sized high visibility Dot target at 50 yards using my 516 fairly consistantly now. Cool, range time was fun. I did not have time to zero the Eotech 100%, I ran out of day light time. I was using the POW range so I had to shut down around 1645 due to the sun starting to set. |
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