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Posted: 12/26/2014 11:20:29 PM EDT
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why are aimpoints lacking in local stores? looking into getting one and went to bass pro, gander mountain and a few other gun stores and all they carried was eotechs.
finaly found a shop that had a FEW but only a few aimpoints and it was the higher end ones no aimpoint pros in stock but i think the comp m4 they had was the most comparable in size and looks just to see how it felt and looked on a rifle. |
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Most LGS peddle cheap crap imo. For every aimpoint you see in pictures on this forum there are 10 guys out there with Wal-Mart optics. Optics in the sub 100 range simply move off the shelves quicker than the aimpoints. You're lucky yours carry eotechs. You reckon it's really 10 to 1 
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More like 20 to 1... Mark, I understand you are a pilot. Keep the shiny side up and stay safe! Signed, a controller One morning back in '08 I had to run some stuff to Ft. Worth for testing. I launched about 7:00 am and called Gray Approach for flight following. He came back with Navion so-and-so, squawk such and such and ident. I did. He came back with "I have you nine four alpha, you show cream and green on the scope, are those colors correct ?" ... Me - "Uh .." ... he paused and said that they had a new radar and the guys were busy there calibrating it and once again queried me as to the validity of the color match. I verified his colors ... with an "Uh, yeah, colors are correct but how ..." He laughed and said he made it to our fly-in the day before and had eye-balled the ol' girl and liked what he saw. 
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You reckon it's really 10 to 1 Quoted:
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Most LGS peddle cheap crap imo. For every aimpoint you see in pictures on this forum there are 10 guys out there with Wal-Mart optics. Optics in the sub 100 range simply move off the shelves quicker than the aimpoints. You're lucky yours carry eotechs. You reckon it's really 10 to 1 Yeah that would be my guess, at least in my neck of the woods. I RO'd a 2 gun match recently at the local club. It was an open event with the max range being 20 yards. We encouraged people to bring their HD rifles instead of purpose built 3 gun rifles. Of the 50 or so shooters, I saw 2 aimpoints and 3 eotechs. Everyone else was using lower end stuff. Vortex and PA were considered "high end" compared to what most were using. Lot of sightmark, bsa, etc. |
for spending what I feel is a good deal on my Aimpoints.
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Yeah that would be my guess, at least in my neck of the woods. I RO'd a 2 gun match recently at the local club. It was an open event with the max range being 20 yards. We encouraged people to bring their HD rifles instead of purpose built 3 gun rifles. Of the 50 or so shooters, I saw 2 aimpoints and 3 eotechs. Everyone else was using lower end stuff. Vortex and PA were considered "high end" compared to what most were using. Lot of sightmark, bsa, etc. Quoted:
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Most LGS peddle cheap crap imo. For every aimpoint you see in pictures on this forum there are 10 guys out there with Wal-Mart optics. Optics in the sub 100 range simply move off the shelves quicker than the aimpoints. You're lucky yours carry eotechs. You reckon it's really 10 to 1 Yeah that would be my guess, at least in my neck of the woods. I RO'd a 2 gun match recently at the local club. It was an open event with the max range being 20 yards. We encouraged people to bring their HD rifles instead of purpose built 3 gun rifles. Of the 50 or so shooters, I saw 2 aimpoints and 3 eotechs. Everyone else was using lower end stuff. Vortex and PA were considered "high end" compared to what most were using. Lot of sightmark, bsa, etc. Thanks for the boots on the ground report. |
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