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Posted: 8/26/2007 5:34:02 PM EDT
| I am new and have a fellow officer that is looking at a Trijicon Reflex for his colt AR. I have went through the 11 pages of dicussions on optics and have really found nothing good or bad about the Reflex but I do see alot about the others(eotech,ACOG, AIMPOINT) any info on the REFLEX good or bad? |
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It's a good sight, not a great sight. I have the reflix and a EO Tech. The good: small and light weight, no battery works well if mounted on a carry handle(gooseneck) The bad: some people don't like the heavy tented lens (the sight must be used with both eyes open) Some times you have a problem with washout( but if it's that bad you will see the front sight) It's a good sight for the 80's but falls behind the new EO Tech and Aimpoint sights. He need's to try before he buys.  |
| Thanks for the info also I have read with several of the trijicon sites that they may burn out or fade some have lasted 5yrs and some are saying 10yrs. Are you having any problems like this. I have just ordered a EO Tech and am trying to talk him in to geting one also. |
| In my experience, the Reflex was a great sight at introduction and is a good sight for someone who is extremely battery-phobic (although I can tell you I didn't turn off my Aimpoint once for a 15 month tour in Iraq and it never died). At this point, however, EOTechs and Aimpoints have surpassed the Reflex in terms of utility and performance. |
This has been around for a few years, and it just as well I repost my commnets again for the sake of discussion. I had a M4 with Aimpoint 5000 with Carry handle mount in around 1989, then came the ACOG NSN which i found it fits perfectly on my new flat top upper from Colt back around the mid 90s, then came the Reflex NSN because i shoot my carbine more close quarter then anything else. the I found a better sight in the Aimpoint M-XD and finally i saw the light with my EOTech and I been running EOTech ever since 2001. This is what i found on the Reflex that made me moved away in a hurry. While shooting at a carbine calss, the instructor made us do some steel shooting out to 200 yards at near sun down, the blue tint made identifying the target difficult at best. I had to raise my head, find the target and lower my aight to acquire the dot and make the shot. While doing a urban trainning, I came from a lowely lit building into a parking lot full of those orangeish street lights, I suddenly lost my reticle until I refoucs my sight to the enviroment around me. I was shnooting in a shoot house, lite up a room doing entry, the white light bounced off the white wall and washed out my reticle. I never had sun light wash out my reticle, something others had experienced. If you like somethihg without batteries, Reflex are the only game in town, with maybe the tri-power following closely behind, but neither sight are some thing I would recommend. If you want the longest lasting battery powered sight, go with the Aimpoint, you never have to turn it off, just change batteries every year like you do with your smoke detectors for the sake of maintenance. I do the same thing with my EOTech and never found myself runn ing out of battery life during the year of shooting. if you are into the survival and zombie thing, maybe a nice iron sight.....  in the upcoming remake of the omega man, I am Legend, Will Smith is running around in a post Apocalyptic NY with a M4 equipped ACOG.. if you believe in the Movie thing.
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