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Joe Biden Has Cancer

Kinda hard to believe they just found this now. What with someone of the likes and talents of Jeff Dunham having their hand up his ass for the duration of his 'presidency' so that he could talk/act/look like he was 'presidenting' but actually being played like PEANUT....

Really REALLY hard to believe this wasn't found/felt/noticed sooner.

Oh wait......




(sarcasm font OFF, for now)

Eotech vs Acog vs razor 1-6

Well it's a 10.3 so most close to mid, home defense , etc. I leaning heavily to the eotech and 3x magnifier for the wider FOV
Is it going to be more close range or more mid range and how do you define mid range?

As far as the Eotech goes, I'd put it out of my mind, unless you have a specific reason for wanting one. If you don't run night vision, it is chunky and heavy with a relatively short battery life for what it is. Unless things have changed, you can't just leave it on either. Shoot, even if you do run night vision, I wouldn't go Eotech unless you run it a lot and it offers you something that an Aimpoint or Romeo 4t doesn't.

You also don't need to spend Eotech money on a 3x magnifier. It's a 3x magnifier. Just about impossible to get wrong unless you try to. In use, I have a hard time telling the difference between an Eotech and a Sig Juliet.

The Razor is nice. Very nice, but again, it's heavy. If you aren't ever going to be running around with it or spending hours in a day running drills and practicing, you may not notice it. In actual use, it's hard to find fault with the 1-6 Razor. The only downside is that I consider it's robustness to be questionable. I suspect that the tube is thin and I've actually seen a few of the wire reticles fail. Of course, that's been over the course of a lot of years.

These days I value robustness first and performance second. I run two 11.5 rigs. One wears a 1-8x NX8 and the other an ACOG with a red dot on top. I grab the rig with the ACOG the most. It's just plain simple and bullet proof.

If 80% of your shooting is within 100 yards, there's nothing wrong with the Romeo 5 it looked like you're running. They are tougher than many give them credit for. Throw a magnifier behind it for the longer shots. If you go to 300 or 400 pretty often, the ACOG is the way to go.

On the other hand, as far as the actual shooting experience goes, the Razor probably covers all bases the best. It just wouldn't be the optic on my goto rig.

XM7 worries from the field.

The infantry (including Special Forces) may eventually be issued the XM7 and XM250.

In my time I had a Big Army issued M16A2 musket and Beretta in the arms room in nice tidy racks. Directly across would be our camouflaged CAR-15s with doo-dads and .45s.

Today it's M4s and Glock 19s.

The same will happen with XM7s if there's no advantage..