It's rechargeable.
Right - but replaceable? Description makes it sound not.
It's rechargeable.
Right - but replaceable? Description makes it sound not.
If it were me, I would forego the laser and stick with the red dot in consideration of the wife, opting maybe for a light instead. That's just me though.
^ this.
I will preface this by saying you must train this way first, but I can easily score hits on a steel silhouette target at 15 yards at night using only the beam of my weapon light. I have a Scout m600DF mounted on my defensive rifles and the center of the beam is pretty well zeroed with the rifle at close ranges. I've also trained this way with a few handguns.
From an HD perspective (7 yards and in), I am completely confident in my lights ability to give me a rough POA, further supplemented by the red dot.
None of this should be taken as personal advice. End of day your situation and abilities are unique and should always be a major consideration or how you set yourself up. And regardless of your set up, training is key.
As others have stated, I don't recommend a visible laser.
The Aimpoint PRO or the Trijicon MRO are some of the highest value "duty grade" optics out there. You can lump an EoTech 512 in there too if that's what you prefer. I personally had the MRO green dot and hated it... stick with the red version. Plus the green dot has relatively poor battery life compared to the red. I am color-blind, so was sold on the green after being told it would help... it actually made things worse when shooting outdoors.
I've also got pretty bad astigmatism in my left eye. To the point where I sold my PRO and MRO and replaced with a Vortex UH1 (similar to an Eotech) and a Holosun 510C on my home defense SBR. I am not typically a Holosun fan but the 510C just worked too well for me and my intended purpose. It feels a little weird sitting on top of a top teir DD suppressed SBR, but whatever.
If this rifle may serve double duty as a defensive rig, I would consider a dot with substantial battery life (40-50K hours). The major downside to the Eotechs and the Vortex UH1 is that you need to press a button to turn it on each time and the battery life isn't great. Not an issue with a range toy, but if this was a grab and go rifle then I would consider other options (my opinion).
If you have astigmatism I would definitely consider the 510C or the 512C (the fully enclosed version), or go a different direction and consider a good LPVO.
Just my 0.02 and my personal experience from spending entirely way too much cash on swapping optics. I'm told the newer generation Aimpoint T2's and CompM5's have addressed the astigmatism issue, but they run $800+. If money is no object and you want the absolute best there is, check them out.
I’m caught in this situation as well. I have an lwrc di rifle that I currently have irons only on. I can’t decide whether or not to put an lpvo ( Steiner p4xi 1-4 or a vortex viper pst 1-6 on it or drop a holosun 510C (never heard of the 512) on it. Decisions...
It’s just going to be a range toy, which is why the decision is harder.
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This Firefly V2 in particular used to be on our overnight travel / hotel pcc but, I just swapped it onto the under-rail on the wife’s nightstand Glock 34 (after lotsa white light, she likes lasers, A LOT and prefers green): https://tacticon.com/product/pistol-laser-flashlight-combo/
I’m up to six of these now on everything from a Scorpion Micro and Stribog SP9A3 to several S&W M&P15-22’s: https://tacticon.com/product/predator-v3-micro-red-dot-sight/
3 of these cantilevered on a Tavor TS-12, a Tavor X95 and I don’t think I’ve mounted the 3rd one, yet: https://tacticon.com/product/predator-red-dot-sight/
Finally, just received 3 of these in today’s Mail and tomorrow one will be going on a Zastava M70 AK ... https://tacticon.com/product/red-dot-reflex-sight-for-ar15-rifle/