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Posted: 10/3/2012 9:50:07 PM EDT
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I have a Les Baer AR15 Police Special- yes, with a backwards castle nut. I have thought about mounting an optic for a while and could never decide which. A full scope just didn't seem right. I want something better than the C-More I have on it now that co-witnesses with the iron sights. I hope to hunt with it sometime but it's a range queen for now.
I have read a lot of threads about the Eotech and Aimpoint sights and neither really was what I want. I always passed up on an ACOG because of price. Now there is a chance I might be able to trade for a TA-33G-H green horseshoe Acog. Since it has 3x magnification it should be good for accuracy to any reasonable range I might shoot. It also seems to be good in case I ever had to use it for defense. So, tell me again about the TA-33G-H. I know there are many threads about it but just give me the condense version. Is it good enough that I should even have to think twice about it? edited to ask: This should be good in carbine matches- right? One more question- I am slightly near-sighted. I usually wear my prescription glasses when I shoot, but sometimes wear uncorrected safety glasses, especially when shoot my Garand. Is this a complication when using this 3x ACOG? |
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a suggestion on your prescription glasses... I am nearsighted and have a pretty bad astigmatism... what works for me (pistol, rifle with scope, and shotgun) was to have a pair of glasses made, with mono vision in my dominant (right)eye... with the near vision prescrption only in the right lens, and a regular bi focal (with the partition moved up a couple of millimeters) in the left, I'm able to see front sight with the pistol and puts rifle optics in good focus... for my 3 gun shotgun with a 21" barrel there is no problem... but I switch to regular bifocals for skeet/5stand
I don't have a 3x but do shoot a 1.5x16 amber triangle and 4x32 TA31F red chevron ACOG without any problems |
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The reticle is focused at infinity, so you need an appropriate long distance prescription lens over the eye you are using behind the scope. The ACOG does not have a diopter adjustment. (It's designed for a combat environment where you need to have clear long distance vision (whether or not you are using the scope) to detect threats. Nearsighted people like me get issued prescription inserts for the shooting glasses, goggles, gas masks, etc.)
The FSB may be visible as a sort of a blur near the bottom of the FOV, but if you are focused on the reticle it probably won't be very distracting. |
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I have been using my regular prescription glasses incerts all summer long with my TA33G-8 with no issues.
For me it is just as quick at 10 yds both eyes open, as my red dots were. I have an astigmatism, and red dots were starting to be a bummer for me at long distance. |
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Thanks guys. It sounds like it should work, especially since my vision isn't real bad. I can shoot irons at 100 yards, but that damn bullseye starts getting fuzzy. I guess I need to decide if this optic is what I can really use. It is a combat gunsight, and I will not be close to anything like combat. If it can be useful for other shooting I may do it, but I really want to not get it just for the cool factor. I don't do much hunting, at least for now, and when I do I will probably use the AR15 for 200 yards and less. For anything longer range I have a .308 SASS. I think this ACOG might work. I would like to make sure there isn't something better suited though. I also do like not needing batteries. |
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Nevermind. The pistol I was going to trade is one I haven't had out of my safe in years, and it isn't as I thought I remembered it. I doubt the guy with the ACOG will want to trade for this 1911. Oh well, I know more about this ACOG than I did, and may end up with one sometime. Thanks for all the help. |
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