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Posted: 11/11/2004 9:45:37 PM EDT
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Hello Everyone. I recently bought an Aimpoint ML2 and an Eotech. (One for each of my 2 AR's.) Well, I mounted the Aimpoint with the windage adjustment knob on the right. (The battery is on the right side) All of the pictures I have seen of Aimpoints on Ar's are mounted like this. Anyway, the direction of the knobs for both windage and elevation are marked backwards. Up is actually down, and right is actually left.   I got it zero'd easy enough, but was wondering if anyone else's Aimpoint is like this? No, I don't have it mounted backwards, LOL!On to the Eotech. Elevation is correct, but again, the windage is backwards....right is actually left. I also noticed a "F" marking on the left side of the Eotech's hood...and got to thinking that maybe Eotech meant this to mean "Front". But it is definately the back. Is Eotech made in Japan? That's the only way this would make sense...think about it: "Rrrreft" for Left, and "Light" for Right.... Anyone? |
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I think what you're having trouble with is the fact that the little arrow and R letter refer to moving the impact of the bullet. You're moving the dot to match the front sight right? That will always be opposite of the markings you see. BTW- Righties should have the battery compartment on the right and Lefties on the left. You know why? It's because you should be using both eyes open and you don't want it blocking your field of view. Again, with the EOTECH the markings indicate bullet impact movement. Don't know why the elevation doesn't seem to be opposite to you as well except to say the effect of parallax is greater on the up and down placement of you eye alignment more so than right to left and it just seems like it wasn't doing the opposite thing to you. The F may be because it's a model F. I have the E version so maybe you have a newer model. That is only a guess though. Mark |
Mark, I can't thank you enough for posting this tip. My Aimpoint will arrive in a week or so and I never would have considered this little nicetie. Instead I would have wondered every time I shot, "Why do I feel like something is in my way?" Once again, AR15.com comes to the rescue before the problem has had a chance to occur! |
| I am used to iron sights, and just started getting into optics. Usually zero with six rounds with irons. With my first Aimpoint I went thru a whole mag. Took awhile to figure out they are not clockwise for up, and not clockwise for righ. Far as I know God intended it to be clockwise for right, and clockwise for up, anything else is, well weird. |
ALL scopes work like this. The reticle moves in the OPPOSITE direction of the desired POI shift. This makes you move the MUZZLE in the direction of the desired change. |
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I have to disagree SWO, not by the markings. On my scopes, if there is a UP --> then it goes up when I turn right. If theres a L --> I turn left. These were opposite. I turn UP--> in the direction of the arrow, and the shot goes DOWN. It was not like my other scopes at all. When I turned LEFT in the direction of the Arrow, the shot went right...far right. |
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