[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Eotech (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 6/27/2013 6:14:03 AM EDT
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I don't want this to be a flame war or an Eotech bashing thread. I just want to know your experiences with Eotech whether good or bad. Thanks |
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I'm one of the few who really like both EOTechs and Aimpoints. I'm usually a little quicker with EOTechs and honestly like them a little more for shooting, but I go with an Aimpoint on my primary HD AR because of the battery life -- leave it on low all the time and have one less thing to do if I have to grab it and use it in a hurry. YMMV. |
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I'm one of the few who really like both EOTechs and Aimpoints. I'm usually a little quicker with EOTechs and honestly like them a little more for shooting, but I go with an Aimpoint on my primary HD AR because of the battery life -- leave it on low all the time and have one less thing to do if I have to grab it and use it in a hurry. YMMV. THIS IS THE PERFECT ANSWER....ABSOLUTELY PERFECT |
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My aa bat version has been 100% from 90 to -12 never failed
my n bat version is a bushnell holotech...it drains batts all the time my other bushnell is aaa and is 100% on a hard kicking 375 H&H I prefer the eotech over the m68 which i do not hide my hatred for. If you get good eotech you are good if you have a bad one you will know week one and send it in to repair. |
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I think they are fucking awesome and are hand forged out of unicorn tusks and fairy shit. My EoTech is still going strong and accurate enough for surgery after 5 years. I put a couple of lithium AAs in it once a year even though the old ones aren't worn out yet. |
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I'm one of the few who really like both EOTechs and Aimpoints. I'm usually a little quicker with EOTechs and honestly like them a little more for shooting, but I go with an Aimpoint on my primary HD AR because of the battery life -- leave it on low all the time and have one less thing to do if I have to grab it and use it in a hurry. YMMV. THIS IS THE PERFECT ANSWER....ABSOLUTELY PERFECT This quote is perfect. |
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I like shooting through an EOTech more than an Aimpoint, but being able to leave the Aimpoint on at an appropriate brightness level seems more suited for a behind the closet door gun.
My EOTech has never failed me when targeting things in the living room, shooting at the range and general plinking when I'm out and about. It's also been on a 7.62 and withstood a few hundred rounds of that recoil without losing zero or breaking. |
| I like my EoTech 512. However I've never pushed it to it's limits either. It goes to the range and sits in my safe at other times. I'm not a hardcore door kicker running Ops in Afghanistan with mine. So a lot of what your opinion of it will be is what your expectations of it are. |
| I had two 552's. The first one I had the dot was all kinds of fucked up on it when I pulled it out of the box. The second one was good never had a problem till one time shooting and was doing a mag dump and the thing just turned off kinda strange. Sold it now. if I get another red dot will probably go with an aimpiont. |
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I always love these silly questions/threads.
"Will something that has worked for years suddenly shit the bed at the exact moment I need it? Even though that moment ever happening is about a 1 in a million chance?" So, here's how it work. You will never need/use your AR for HD. Never. Ever. You will actually use it for the range, and for the POSSIBILITY of HD. For the range, the 1MOA dot on the Eotech is very precise. It's fun at the range because it is so precise. I can hit at 365 yards with on Eotech on a torso sized target....because it is so precise. And plus, it's fast up close. |
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Quoted: I always love these silly questions/threads. "Will something that has worked for years suddenly shit the bed at the exact moment I need it? Even though that moment ever happening is about a 1 in a million chance?" So, here's how it work. You will never need/use your AR for HD. Never. Ever. You will actually use it for the range, and for the POSSIBILITY of HD. For the range, the 1MOA dot on the Eotech is very precise. It's fun at the range because it is so precise. I can hit at 365 yards with on Eotech on a torso sized target....because it is so precise. And plus, it's fast up close. Thanks for using your power of knowing everyones futures to tell us what will happen. On the topic at hand, I have used Eotechs on multiple deployments with no problems. |
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I don't want this to be a flame war or an Eotech bashing thread. I just want to know your experiences with Eotech whether good or bad. Thanks Older versions were known to drain batteries even when not in use. This is the only true negative I have really heard of, I have been running AIMPOINTs for a while as I have access to them at a cheaper rate but have been thinking about playing around with one or two of the EXPS2-1s if I can find one reasonably priced. ETA, the EXPS 2-1 does not have the 65MOA ring, only the 1MOA center dot similar to the AIMPOINT Configuration |
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Quoted: I always love these silly questions/threads. "Will something that has worked for years suddenly shit the bed at the exact moment I need it? Even though that moment ever happening is about a 1 in a million chance?" So, here's how it work. You will never need/use your AR for HD. Never. Ever. You will actually use it for the range, and for the POSSIBILITY of HD. For the range, the 1MOA dot on the Eotech is very precise. It's fun at the range because it is so precise. I can hit at 365 yards with on Eotech on a torso sized target....because it is so precise. And plus, it's fast up close.  I would not say never cause I'm sure there are bad things that have happened to people who thought they never would.
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Quoted: Quoted: I always love these silly questions/threads. "Will something that has worked for years suddenly shit the bed at the exact moment I need it? Even though that moment ever happening is about a 1 in a million chance?" So, here's how it work. You will never need/use your AR for HD. Never. Ever. You will actually use it for the range, and for the POSSIBILITY of HD. For the range, the 1MOA dot on the Eotech is very precise. It's fun at the range because it is so precise. I can hit at 365 yards with on Eotech on a torso sized target....because it is so precise. And plus, it's fast up close. Thanks for using your power of knowing everyones futures to tell us what will happen. On the topic at hand, I have used Eotechs on multiple deployments with no problems. Some guy said that a Bushnell red dot is more reliable than the Eotech which got me wondering how Eotechs got such a bad rep. I mean Bushnell is a good optic and all, but I don't think it would out preform an Eotech in a torture test. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I don't want this to be a flame war or an Eotech bashing thread. I just want to know your experiences with Eotech whether good or bad. Thanks Older versions were known to drain batteries even when not in use. This is the only true negative I have really heard of, I have been running AIMPOINTs for a while as I have access to them at a cheaper rate but have been thinking about playing around with one or two of the EXPS2-1s if I can find one reasonably priced. ETA, the EXPS 2-1 does not have the 65MOA ring, only the 1MOA center dot similar to the AIMPOINT Configuration Honestly I would say just stick with Aimpoint micro if you just want a single dot. |
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I used a EOTech a bunch while in the Army.
Idiots would leave their sights powered on after missions and then complain about their sights not working. The huge target reticle allows you to keep the sight on a dimmer setting yet still acquire things quickly. Personally I prefer the 1moa dot surrounded by a really large circle over a single fat dot. At one point I was issued a M4/M203 and it was nice to be able to use the night vision monocle with the EOTech(although kind of tricky at first), rather than have to put a laser on the front rails(which had quite a bit of play in them...not good) and add more weight to the weapon. Of course this doesn't really apply if you don't use night vision devices. I have a model 512 on my AR15 now and use lithium AA batteries (to avoid leaking over the long term). I don't mind the additional size and although those three volt photo batteries are far common now than they were a decade or two ago, I still like using AAs because of their availability; maybe that's paranoid side showing though. |
| Never had a problem with my 512, other than it ate through batteries. I have seen several of the 511's in my agency go south. I am sure the same would happen with Aimpoints. The newer versions of the Eotech are good to go. They had no choice but to fix the problems they had in order to keep their .gov contracts. I much prefer my T-1 to any model of Eotech because I like its size and the single dot reticle. 2MOA is plenty for me to hit accurately with - not as accurate as a magnified optic, but plenty accurate to get the job done. |
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i have owned 3 since the gen2 version was released. 2 of them failed and were replaced only to fail again within a couple of years. won't buy them anymore.
from a shooting perspective i seriously prefer them to aimpoints for speed, but for me reliabilty was a MAJOR issue. oddly the one that has lasted has been one of the original bushnell branded models. |
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I'm one of the few who really like both EOTechs and Aimpoints. I'm usually a little quicker with EOTechs and honestly like them a little more for shooting, but I go with an Aimpoint on my primary HD AR because of the battery life -- leave it on low all the time and have one less thing to do if I have to grab it and use it in a hurry. YMMV. I've always liked the cut of your jib, brother HardShell 
And I agree with you completely. I own both, and like both a lot as well-though admittedly I only have two EOTechs versus several Aimpoints. Once I got used to the EOTech, I found that it was a bit faster (for me anyway) to get on target versus my Comp M2s. Obligatory pic is, well, obligatory 
As far as durability goes I'm the wrong guy to be offering advice-so I'll defer that to someone else. Aside from a few carbine classes none of my gear is run especially hard or abused. Like HardShell, the Aimpoint Comp M2 on my "bump in the night" carbine is left on low 24/7. The battery gets changed every couple of years-just to be on the safe side-even though it would undoubtedly be GTG for a lot longer. |
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I always love these silly questions/threads. "Will something that has worked for years suddenly shit the bed at the exact moment I need it? Even though that moment ever happening is about a 1 in a million chance?" So, here's how it work. You will never need/use your AR for HD. Never. Ever. You will actually use it for the range, and for the POSSIBILITY of HD. For the range, the 1MOA dot on the Eotech is very precise. It's fun at the range because it is so precise. I can hit at 365 yards with on Eotech on a torso sized target....because it is so precise. And plus, it's fast up close. 
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I used to have one. I'd say they are "GTG." The thing was built really tough and could take a beating, but it just kept draining the batteries when not in use. (I'm told they have fixed this.) Mine did this, then died altogether. I went aimpoint and Trijicon after that. |
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You like KAC as well. 
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Oh, and on topic, have used both. Like both. With I could combine the better features of each into one uber-bamf optic.
As to battery drain, I currently have the XPS 2-0. Have had it for a few years now. I think it's on its second or third battery total. CR123's, 500 hours run time. So I'd say the drain issue has been addressed, more or less. |