I need a couple optics for my flat top 300 blk out, and my 458 socom. I got 1x4 vortex, but I find they have paralax problems up close.
Are the new eotecs holding up well.

JD

Both are very good sights.

I prefer the EoTec for 3 reasons;

I like the "display better, as I feel like I am looking through a tube with the Aimpoint.
This is most likely because I am left eye dominate but shoot a rifle right handed.

I prefer the smaller 1 moa aiming dot at longer distances, and find the 65 MOA circle works great up close.

My EoTec takes Lithium 123 batteries, ie Surefire flashlight batteries, the same kind that I use in my lights, so I always have some with me.

Exactly the same reasons I prefer the EO Tech.

Aimpoint. I say this despite having a good friend that is a dealer and can get me Eotechs at dealer cost.

APs have no kill switch. They have insane battery life. Insane. My oldest M2 is on it's original battery. It is around 10 years old. Specs call for M2 bat life of 10k hours, but that assumes you leave it on.

Let me say that again: the battery life figures for AP assume you leave them on.

I should probably say that a third time.

I have six APs. Every one is on it's original battery. Try that with six Eos. You pick the model.

When the AP battery starts to go it just gets dim and you can compensate quickly by turning up the intensity. It does not suddenly quit and go dead on you.

APs have a simple, uncluttered reticle (ie., dot).

I procured Eos for two friends. Both had to have Eos, despite me advising them to get APs. Both have had the unhappy experience of discovering a dead battery and useless optic. Fortunately, neither was a life/death scenario, but hey.........

The Eo makes sense if the word "Bindon" has no meaning to you. Really, you should learn to shoot with both eyes open.

From the foregoing, you might think I believe Eos are junk. I don't. For compulsive battery changers who must use one eye they are fine.

I just cannot place them in the same league as an AP.

Sam

On Aimpoint battery life I have two older Aimpoint 2000 sights.

One is on my Remington 870 rifled barrel slug gun the other is on my M1 Carbine.

I just changed the 123 (2/3A) Lithium battery in the one on my M1 Carbine the Industrial Panasonic battery I pulled is date coded (mfg date) July 1990.

This date is why I replaced it, it was still functional when removed.

The one in my 870 is an identical Panasonic industrial lithium battery with a manufacturing date of January 2003.
It is only newer because I put a new one in before the
last time I took that shotgun hunting.

These Aimpoint 2000 sights were just under $400 each when I them back around 1990 and I'm still happy with them.

But I trained to never intentionally "look through the tube", but instead to "see the dot" with my right eye and the target with my left eye (not my "master eye" but has always had better vision) and simply move the firearm until the dot was where I wanted the bullet hole.

I have had 2 aim points for many years and never change a battry. I had a busnell holosight, and found the battries were dead when I needed it during katrina (with no back up sights) Eotec claims 600 hours and will shut off when inactive, all my rigs have back up sights now some have scopes and a red dot type sight also. I am leaning to the eotec because of the tunnel effect. I have several 1x4 cqb pst's but the have real bad parralax (spelling?). No one sight will do it all.

Thanks for the input.

JD

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:

My EoTec takes Lithium 123 batteries, ie Surefire flashlight batteries, the same kind that I use in my lights, so I always have some with me.

I have three years worth of Aimpoint batteries in my aimpoint at any given time. I change them on even numbered birthdays.

Mine is a Aimpoint T1 Micro on a Daniels Defense mount

Rock solid zero!

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Originally posted by J D:
I have had 2 aim points for many years and never change a battry. I had a busnell holosight, and found the battries were dead when I needed it during katrina (with no back up sights) Eotec claims 600 hours and will shut off when inactive, all my rigs have back up sights now some have scopes and a red dot type sight also. I am leaning to the eotec because of the tunnel effect. I have several 1x4 cqb pst's but the have real bad parralax (spelling?). No one sight will do it all.

Thanks for the input.

JD

MY Aimpoints all have photocell driven autodimming features.

You set the sight to the desired brightness and the autodim maintains the apparent brightness
in changing light conditions.

If you put the firearm somewhere really dark, Say... inside a case or inside your safe (or both) and it practically turns itself off.

I've inadvertently left several sights turned on for several years at a time.

I Mark my gun sight batteries with the month and year I installed them if they are more than five years old I replace them. I have other devices (Cameras) that take the same 2/3A batteries, so I have spares around (a twin pack of them in the glovebox of my truck)

The older Aimpoints were advertised as being parallax free, I don't know about the newer ones.

I got a good deal on Aimpoint PRO (Patrol Rifle Optics), so I bought 2 at $400 each for the wife and my AR15s. At 30,000 hours continuous on life, I only bought one extra battery for each. Great optics.

I run the EOtech XPS2 and AimPoint PRO on different rifles. I find both to be rock solid optics. The battery issue definitely favors the AimPoint but if you schedule replacement batteries on the EOtech it's no problem. I would suggest if you're looking at the EOtech, do a little research on which model to get. Some model's have had more problems than others. As far as using them, I like features on the AimPoint better but much prefer the duel reticle dot on the EOtech to the single dot of the AimPoint. For me it picks up faster on short shots and with the 1 MOA center dot allows for precision shooting out to around 100 yds. On the AimPoint I prefer the 2 MOA models to the 4 MOA models.