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Posted: 4/13/2012 6:00:16 AM EDT
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So some friends and I went I shooting yesterday and I let a buddy shoot one of my ARs that had an Eotech on it. The rifle has a fixed rear sight and FSB so it's always absolute co-witness with the Eotech. He starts to shoot and I'm not paying attention, next thing I know he's cranking the shit out of the adjustment dials saying he can't get it to sight in (it was already sighted in), I grab the rifle and dumbass doesn't even have the Eotech on, for what ever reason he was turning the dials on the Eotech when he meant to be adjusting the rear iron sight.
My question is if someone starts going to town on the adjustment dials will it mess anything up by turning them so much. I'll have to go back to the range Monday and try to sight it back in and was just wondering this before I do. |
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Unless he turned them all the way to one side, and then attempted to turn them further hard enough that he damaged the mechanism you should be fine.
I have two great pieces of advice for you thought that will save you time and trouble. 1. Put your rifle/upper in a vise, and just look through your irons and adjust your Eotech by just getting the dot to overlay the front sight. You will be very, very close, most likely dead on, but still shoot to confirm. 2. Get new friends. I mean really, what kind of person just starts adjusting the hell out of someone's sights , especially if they are so clueless that they don't know the difference between the irons and the optic? That's like loaning your car to a friend, and getting it back with not only the seat adjusted out of whack, but all of your radio stations reprogrammed and your car running like shit because the moron "tuned" your engine and got the firing order wrong. Rule #1, or at least a very close #2 or #3, is that if your friend's firearm isn't sighted in for you, you use Kentucky windage, or at the very least tell the friend and ask if it he can adjust it. Good luck. |
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Unless he turned them all the way to one side, and then attempted to turn them further hard enough that he damaged the mechanism you should be fine. I have two great pieces of advice for you thought that will save you time and trouble. 1. Put your rifle/upper in a vise, and just look through your irons and adjust your Eotech by just getting the dot to overlay the front sight. You will be very, very close, most likely dead on, but still shoot to confirm. 2. Get new friends. I mean really, what kind of person just starts adjusting the hell out of someone's sights , especially if they are so clueless that they don't know the difference between the irons and the optic? That's like loaning your car to a friend, and getting it back with not only the seat adjusted out of whack, but all of your radio stations reprogrammed and your car running like shit because the moron "tuned" your engine and got the firing order wrong. Rule #1, or at least a very close #2 or #3, is that if your friend's firearm isn't sighted in for you, you use Kentucky windage, or at the very least tell the friend and ask if it he can adjust it. Good luck. lol number 2 is funny. btw op you will be fine, eotechs wont break that easy |
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Unless he turned them all the way to one side, and then attempted to turn them further hard enough that he damaged the mechanism you should be fine. I have two great pieces of advice for you thought that will save you time and trouble. 1. Put your rifle/upper in a vise, and just look through your irons and adjust your Eotech by just getting the dot to overlay the front sight. You will be very, very close, most likely dead on, but still shoot to confirm. 2. Get new friends. I mean really, what kind of person just starts adjusting the hell out of someone's sights , especially if they are so clueless that they don't know the difference between the irons and the optic? That's like loaning your car to a friend, and getting it back with not only the seat adjusted out of whack, but all of your radio stations reprogrammed and your car running like shit because the moron "tuned" your engine and got the firing order wrong. Rule #1, or at least a very close #2 or #3, is that if your friend's firearm isn't sighted in for you, you use Kentucky windage, or at the very least tell the friend and ask if it he can adjust it. Good luck. Thanks for the advice, I got it back on top of the FSB when I got home last night so hopefully it just needs a little fine tuning. Regarding #2 you'll be happy to know that the one who messed it up, was the only police officer there out of the 4 of us, needless to say I don't see him qualifying to have an AR in his car anytime soon haha. Be glad you live in SC Pavlovwolf |
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Unless he turned them all the way to one side, and then attempted to turn them further hard enough that he damaged the mechanism you should be fine. I have two great pieces of advice for you thought that will save you time and trouble. 1. Put your rifle/upper in a vise, and just look through your irons and adjust your Eotech by just getting the dot to overlay the front sight. You will be very, very close, most likely dead on, but still shoot to confirm. 2. Get new friends. I mean really, what kind of person just starts adjusting the hell out of someone's sights , especially if they are so clueless that they don't know the difference between the irons and the optic? That's like loaning your car to a friend, and getting it back with not only the seat adjusted out of whack, but all of your radio stations reprogrammed and your car running like shit because the moron "tuned" your engine and got the firing order wrong. Rule #1, or at least a very close #2 or #3, is that if your friend's firearm isn't sighted in for you, you use Kentucky windage, or at the very least tell the friend and ask if it he can adjust it. Good luck. Thanks for the advice, I got it back on top of the FSB when I got home last night so hopefully it just needs a little fine tuning. Regarding #2 you'll be happy to know that the one who messed it up, was the only police officer there out of the 4 of us, needless to say I don't see him qualifying to have an AR in his car anytime soon haha. Be glad you live in SC Pavlovwolf Lol, all my family is from Monroe and Kannapolis NC. SC isn't any better really. Cops, other than the one's here a lot of times aren't any more gun savvy than the general public, although you would think that they should be. I know a lot locally that are like that. I do have a good number of them that I'm friends with that are gun nuts though. We have a new guy in town, and we lucked up with him. He's from Texas, knows his guns, ( so we have a new range buddy ), and, he's a really good drummer, and we needed one for our band . Still, I'll hold off on letting him shoot my Eotech equipped rifle. |
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