Mason wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:33 am
If you really want to learn to shoot, put your money into a set of military style irons and a quality quick release mount for your scope. The AR is a 300 yard with irons platform. Figure that out first and then add the scope back. There is a reason the military uses iron sights to train and the vast majority of soldiers carry nothing more than an M4 or M16 with a 1x ACOG red dot. Most other AR accessories are mainly "shit of goat" designed to do nothing more than empty your wallet.
I understand, but I don't consider optics accessories, and honestly this conversation isn't going in the right direction.
I don't have many firearms, so I try to apply a "tool for the job" notion to buying them. My one other rifle is a Ruger 10/22 that only has iron sights, and it is the rifle that I trained on when my eyes were younger to learn to use a rifle. I don't hunt, so my choice of the AR platform here is tactical.
This AR came with no optics of any kind, and was procured with the specific intention of putting a scope on it so that I could have a rifle that I would be more effective with at distance --and that delivered more damage-- than the smaller .22lr caliber. So it now has a scope, but I need good irons, or at least something for up-close shooting. I'm not trying to impress anyone with my tacticool gear, nor to impress anyone with my exceptional marksmanship skills on bare metal. I have to mount my close-range option offset because the optical scope is on top. I have half of a very good iron solution with flip up KAC back sights, but the front sights+picatinny-offset will set me back as much as a decent prism optic which I have decided is probably better with my inferior vision.
And that's about it. With those things in mind, what light and clear prism solution would work well at a 45 degree offset?