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Posted: 6/24/2005 11:31:51 AM EDT
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Do you like the brightness adjustment knob on your Aimpoint on the right or the left of the topmost zeroing knob? I am right handed. I have had mine both ways, and can't decide which way I like it better, but I lean toward having it on the right side. |
Most RH shooters prefer the brightness adjustment on the RH side, and lefties(or special shooters) like me like it on the LH side.  I hope that answers your question. |
Im just the opposite. I have never dinked with my windage and elevation after sighting in, so my power knob is on the left side, where I can adjust it without breaking my grip. |
when i use mine i turn it on initially and dont turn it off till it gets put away
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I guess you only shoot at an indoor range with controlled lighting then right? Never have to adjust the brightness of the dot when the sun moves behind a dark cloud or anything? |
Im overjoyed for you that you never do anything that requires you to vary the brightness based on the lighting environment/flashlight use. |
| What Lumpy said. Manipulations are better done with support hand while retaining firing grip, e.g. charging handle operation. I noticed this when I switched to M2 and found the dot to be brighter than Comp M XD. There was a need to adjust brightness more frequently, depending on the environment. |
| Do any of you guys find it easier to close up the front cover rather than make adjustments? Instead of adjusting reticle, just keep light(or lack of) in the tube constant. I know it works well in drastic changes, indoor to outdoor, strobing in a BLK room, etc.. Is it because of the back lighting that you guys prefer to adjust dot? Thanks for opinions. -Justin |
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I shoot a rifle left handed so I mounted mine with the rotary switch on the left side. It seemed like the best way to mount it in order to get the best field of view when using the sight with both eyes open as intended. Kinda like moutning the flip open caps upside down so they don't obstruct your view when they are open. It was later, actually looking at the Aimpoint manual, that I saw in Figure 3 on page 3 that Aimpoint instructs you to mount it this way. As far as adjustment, it's easy enough with either hand, very fast if you use the grip hand, but not slow with the support hand if you rotate the weapon to get the knob to "meet" your support hand and allowing you to maintain a firing grip on the weapon, and of course mounting the sight farther forward simplifies this also. I have found that many right handed weapons, such as the AK series by everybody from Norinco to Galil to Valmet are ideally suited for left handed shooters, allowing you to maintain a firing grip on the weapon as you operate the charging handle. I wish PRI made an ambi charging latch. As far as ICU's comment about closing the front cover, well I have tried it also and it works great this way, however I used to use an OEG a lot on both an 9mm UZI and a .223 Galil, so I'm used to that style of sight. Also, the zero for occluded eye use is different for some people from the actual Aimpoint zero, but for rapid close quarters combat it's probably not enough to matter. Setting the dot's brightness higher than needed indoors allows for good transitions to outdoors use, and I have found that generally I would rather the dot be too bright, than too dim.  |
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I am right handed. When I received my first Aimpoint, I put the knob on the right side like the instruction manual suggested. I know run it with the knob on the left. I do not like using my "gun hand" to make adjustments or anything else. I keep in on the pistol grip, pointed towards the threat, ready to fire. I've never had the knob self-adjust this way with the various vests, chest carriers, or other equipment I was wearing. I was surprised at one of the ARFcom shoots I went to at the amount of shooters on the line who used their gun hand to pull the charging handle (two finger pull), remove and retrieve a magazine from their Blackhawk ninja pouch, remove a throw-lever mounted optic, etc. |
+1 - plus rotate the gun "inboard" (as I beleive Pat Rogers would say) no problem with left rotation with slung. I dont use an Aimpoint a lot - but mine is left mounted (I am a righty). |
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