AR Upper advice

[m25operator]

This deserves its own thread, but we are trying to Help Tom out here.

I own, Eotech, trijicon tri power and reflex, C more, Aimpoints, Tasco optima, PDP4 red dot type scopes.

For shooting I love the Trijicon Tripower, but it has a flaw and I have not sent it back to see if gets better, it has the chevron reticle which I love, up close put the whole chevron on target and press, at distance use it like a front sight, place the target at the tip of the chevron and press. Problem, if I am in the shade shooting at a white plate in the sunlight, it will wash completely out. This is an older model and tritium is dead, man I talked to at trijicon did not give me a lot faith that this issue will be resolved. But I really like it in action.

All round I like the Aimpoints, built very tough and the best thing is battery life, neither of mine are current generation that have 50,000 hrs on 1 battery, just 10,000 hrs, put in the battery on mine, leave it on all the time at 1/2 power, change the battery on your birthday every yr. Bright enough for the brightest days, and also have NV settings, if your lucky enough to have NV

The Eotech is a good sight, battery life around 300 hrs, the standard reticle is 60" for the outside circle and 1" for the dot in the center at 100 yards. After using the others, that reticle is too busy for me. I may send it back and get just the dot. It has a great field of view, except for the outside circle, it gets better if the intensity is turned down.

The Cmores I only have on pistols, they are rugged, battery life average, they have very course sight adjustments that take 2 tools to adjust, meaning not field adjustable under battle conditions. If your a set it and forget it guy, no problem.

The Trijicon reflex, I have not used yet, but are less expensive. I mounted it on a Marlin 336 and seems to be a good combo.

The Tasco's are for games, not rugged, but very cheap.

Shop hard, used is good in the quality optics. I have said this often, buy this best optics you can, guns come and go, good glass stays forever.

PS not cheap, but I got mine for 175.00 because it was mounted on a magnum rifle and the rings were not secured enough, heavy scratches, that is the Leupold 1.5x5, vari x 3, it is good enough to use inside the house, no illumination though.

[billt]

OK guys, you want an upper to end all uppers, here it is, and I'm going to check it out tommorow.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=151596172

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=150460126

LMT makes Great AR-15's. We'll see.  Bill T.

[GUNS-R-US]

For shooting I love the Trijicon Tripower, but it has a flaw and I have not sent it back to see if gets better, it has the chevron reticle which I love, up close put the whole chevron on target and press, at distance use it like a front sight, place the target at the tip of the chevron and press. Problem, if I am in the shade shooting at a white plate in the sunlight, it will wash completely out. This is an older model and tritium is dead, man I talked to at trijicon did not give me a lot faith that this issue will be resolved. But I really like it in action.

You can send it back to Trijicon to get the tritium replaced. Not sure what the cost of the replacement is but it's got to be less than a new scope.

[blackwolfe]

Tom,
I like this tactical carry handle with sight from Rock River.  I have seen them much cheaper on Gunbroker.

http://www.rockriverarms.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=280

[tombogan03884]

Wolfe, I saw that in an old Shotgun News (price was a lot lower  ) I would go with the standard as the only purpose is that "Retro" CAR look     The other one looks like it would raise the optic to high.

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