So what are your thoughts? What real life scenarios can you come up where you'll need both.
Because it fills a void in my life caused by my meager physical attributes.
The one I ordered in January will be going on a LMT MWS CQB. I was looking at getting an Acog TA31ECOS to have something with both rapid acquisition and "precision" capabilities. The cost of the ACOG/RMR combo is about $1800 and it comes with the issues of short eye relief and the high mount RMR may cause cause the shooter to break cheek weld.
I saw the 1-8X as an improvement worth the extra money because I will have the close in capability, lose the ergonomics issues that may or may not be present in the ACOG and I gain magnification.
Reality for me is that I will be shooting my rifle off a bench or on my belly at a target with a black bull on KD ranges. If I want to play I can dial down to 1X to move and shoot hoping to hit 12X18 area targets. If Im on the bench I get a usable reticle for precision. Should I start losing my cross hairs in the black bull. Ill dial on my blue light for a fighting chance at the X.
With S&B unable to come to market and USO's ability to promote the advantages over an ACOG or ELCAN I think USO will have a winner if they market it right. Its a tough economy right now and the glass has a big price but the added cost over alternatives is not that much more and you will be gaining for money spent in my opinion.
So when will my scope be done have they sent it out for paint yet? If I was an evil prick I would tell them not to market it and that will make mine something really special.
I am assuming that their concerns are just based on cost of manufacturing and projected sales. It has to be a biatch getting the dot and the reticle to work in synch than you go add illum - yeah sounds fun. If they are concerned with durability thats a different story and would be concerning to me.