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lurkingknight · July 5th, 2012, 23:54

I love spending money apparently.

I'm looking for an optic combo for my g36. It has the standard length C length top rail.

I can't decide whether what I want to flip for...

But I figure most of my shooting is done from 20-40m so having 1x zoom is quite important. For those times that I'm trying to find someone or shoot extremely longer distances, a zoom would be good.

The illuminated spectre dr 1x4 red/green dot has caught my eye.. it looks nice and has the ability to go 1x zoom so I'm not stuck looking at a blurry mess when I'm up close. The only drawback for this guy is the 300$ ish price tag for the illuminated version. That's getting close to real steel optic there. But the good news is that it seems that most people who own one have had reasonable things to say about it. 300$ reasonable? I'm not sure.

The fallbacks to that are a magnifer combo, either an aimpoint duo or eotech duo.

My issue with aimpoints is I don't like a standard dot... I like more of a circular reticle (even though the spectre is a crosshair/dot combo) I like the simplicity of filling the circular reticle on target and having the majority of my shots land in that circle. It's big, and my crappy eyes can pick out the reticle very easily, so a dot might be harder for my eyes to track. I like the look of the aimpoint duo, and I have seen a couple aimpoint replicas with selectable reticles but they've been sold out everywhere.

That leaves eotech clones with their poor sunlight performance. I imagine there are a few good ones out there for the going rate of acm clones. And there's a couple ZX models from huang that have had good sunlight reviews. I feel this might be my only option unless someone has a suggestion or a source on something different. I'm not entertaining hurricane eotechs because after the sight and magnifier I'm getting close the price of that elcan.

Anyone have any thoughts? Any elcan owners out there with the 1x4 illuminated model with input?

July 5th, 2012, 23:54	#1
lurkingknight "bb bukakke" KING! Trader rating Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Ottawa	optic shopping I love spending money apparently. I'm looking for an optic combo for my g36. It has the standard length C length top rail. I can't decide whether what I want to flip for... But I figure most of my shooting is done from 20-40m so having 1x zoom is quite important. For those times that I'm trying to find someone or shoot extremely longer distances, a zoom would be good. The illuminated spectre dr 1x4 red/green dot has caught my eye.. it looks nice and has the ability to go 1x zoom so I'm not stuck looking at a blurry mess when I'm up close. The only drawback for this guy is the 300$ ish price tag for the illuminated version. That's getting close to real steel optic there. But the good news is that it seems that most people who own one have had reasonable things to say about it. 300$ reasonable? I'm not sure. The fallbacks to that are a magnifer combo, either an aimpoint duo or eotech duo. My issue with aimpoints is I don't like a standard dot... I like more of a circular reticle (even though the spectre is a crosshair/dot combo) I like the simplicity of filling the circular reticle on target and having the majority of my shots land in that circle. It's big, and my crappy eyes can pick out the reticle very easily, so a dot might be harder for my eyes to track. I like the look of the aimpoint duo, and I have seen a couple aimpoint replicas with selectable reticles but they've been sold out everywhere. That leaves eotech clones with their poor sunlight performance. I imagine there are a few good ones out there for the going rate of acm clones. And there's a couple ZX models from huang that have had good sunlight reviews. I feel this might be my only option unless someone has a suggestion or a source on something different. I'm not entertaining hurricane eotechs because after the sight and magnifier I'm getting close the price of that elcan. Anyone have any thoughts? Any elcan owners out there with the 1x4 illuminated model with input?