03-05-2022, 01:06 AM
Interesting, but I don't want one. What I want is to know how to defeat one. Sounds like it can hit anything it can see, so long as the batteries remain charged, so the best defense I suppose is to be unseeable... or figure out how to leach the batteries from a distance to turn it back into a plain old scope and give yourself an even chance.
Since cold drains batteries, if you know your opponent has one of these, just fight in the cold only, and keep him out in the cold until his batteries fizzle out.
2 1/2 pounds is pretty hefty for a scope. My own AR is already at nearly 10 pounds loaded with a 40 round mag, but I think most of that is down to the heavy barrel. Couldn't find one with a normal pencil barrel, and this is the only one I could find without that stupid M4 step-down in the barrel for attaching an M203 GL to it. I don't need that, don't have an M203, and I remain convinced that stupid step down has to be affecting barrel harmonics. I also wanted an intermediate barrel twist, in this case 1 twist in 9 inches, so that I could use either M193 55 gr ammo or M855 62 gr ammo. The M4 1:7 twist is too fast for the lighter bullets and they just skip the rifling, turning it into a musket, and the 1:12 M16A1 twist Doesn't stabilize the heavier 62 gr rounds, so an intermediate twist it had to be. And for all that, I had to get that heavy barrel.
Life is full of trade offs, I reckon.
I have only recently moved to a red dot optic. Before, all I used was iron sights. Even at that, I don't trust the red dot batteries to hold out in a pinch, so I have co-sighted the iron sights with the red dot so that if the battery fizzles, I'm not dead in the water - I can see the iron sights through the optics tube, so I can still continue to be obnoxious in the event of a power failure just by flipping up my rear sight. My red dot has NO magnification, but 4 different reticles - a quartered bulls-eye, a single dot, a "T", and a reticle with a series of 3 vertical dots. I used to keep it set on the single dot, but have lately taken to keeping it on the quartered bulls eye.
No fore-grip - I find them to be useless and just get in the way and snag on stuff, but I do have a flashlight with a pressure pad switch mounted on it, for special occasions. I also have an utterly and completely useless green laser - also with a momentary pressure switch - mounted to it, co-sited with the red dot and the iron sights. It serves no purpose, really, beyond intimidation (nothing like seeing that green dot pop up on your chest to let you know how close to dying you are) But it will also allow the target to track me right back to my location in the night time, because that green beam can be seen all along it's length, so no damned good for stealth mode, which is my normal mode of operation.
All of that extra crap adds weight, but the barrel is the bulk of it - the flashlight weights about 6 ounces, the red dot about 4 or 5, and the laser 3 or 4. Empty, with no magazine at all, it weights about 8 1/2 pounds. Roughly 1 pound of that is gadgetry, but my old Colt 653 was the same length, and only weighed 6 pounds - that means that heavy barrel is adding about a pound and a half to the tally.
I couldn't see replacing a 4 ounce sight with a 38 ounce sight, not even one with all the geegaws, not even if they added a Pac-Man game to it to pass time.
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Since cold drains batteries, if you know your opponent has one of these, just fight in the cold only, and keep him out in the cold until his batteries fizzle out.
2 1/2 pounds is pretty hefty for a scope. My own AR is already at nearly 10 pounds loaded with a 40 round mag, but I think most of that is down to the heavy barrel. Couldn't find one with a normal pencil barrel, and this is the only one I could find without that stupid M4 step-down in the barrel for attaching an M203 GL to it. I don't need that, don't have an M203, and I remain convinced that stupid step down has to be affecting barrel harmonics. I also wanted an intermediate barrel twist, in this case 1 twist in 9 inches, so that I could use either M193 55 gr ammo or M855 62 gr ammo. The M4 1:7 twist is too fast for the lighter bullets and they just skip the rifling, turning it into a musket, and the 1:12 M16A1 twist Doesn't stabilize the heavier 62 gr rounds, so an intermediate twist it had to be. And for all that, I had to get that heavy barrel.
Life is full of trade offs, I reckon.
I have only recently moved to a red dot optic. Before, all I used was iron sights. Even at that, I don't trust the red dot batteries to hold out in a pinch, so I have co-sighted the iron sights with the red dot so that if the battery fizzles, I'm not dead in the water - I can see the iron sights through the optics tube, so I can still continue to be obnoxious in the event of a power failure just by flipping up my rear sight. My red dot has NO magnification, but 4 different reticles - a quartered bulls-eye, a single dot, a "T", and a reticle with a series of 3 vertical dots. I used to keep it set on the single dot, but have lately taken to keeping it on the quartered bulls eye.
No fore-grip - I find them to be useless and just get in the way and snag on stuff, but I do have a flashlight with a pressure pad switch mounted on it, for special occasions. I also have an utterly and completely useless green laser - also with a momentary pressure switch - mounted to it, co-sited with the red dot and the iron sights. It serves no purpose, really, beyond intimidation (nothing like seeing that green dot pop up on your chest to let you know how close to dying you are) But it will also allow the target to track me right back to my location in the night time, because that green beam can be seen all along it's length, so no damned good for stealth mode, which is my normal mode of operation.
All of that extra crap adds weight, but the barrel is the bulk of it - the flashlight weights about 6 ounces, the red dot about 4 or 5, and the laser 3 or 4. Empty, with no magazine at all, it weights about 8 1/2 pounds. Roughly 1 pound of that is gadgetry, but my old Colt 653 was the same length, and only weighed 6 pounds - that means that heavy barrel is adding about a pound and a half to the tally.
I couldn't see replacing a 4 ounce sight with a 38 ounce sight, not even one with all the geegaws, not even if they added a Pac-Man game to it to pass time.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’