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by Byron, Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 19:58 (3529 days ago) @ rob

A couple of thoughts that come to me.

First, get your eye sight squared away. Many times a simple trip to your OD and a soft contact for your shooting eye will solve most eye sight/gun sight problems.

Second, my setup on the AR15 farm carbine is a high quality 1x5 illuminated reticle telescope with a powerful LED weapon light. That is my back porch rifle setup. At 1x with the reticle turned on it works like an AimPoint and at 5x allows a bit finer shooting...maybe...at least it seems to. One should be able to shoot MOA with a quality setup thusly.

Third, realistically the 16" 5.56mm is a 200ish sporting rifle and will kill deer and such like lighting inside that range. If you have good vision and you should, a good red dot with a 2 MOA dot will allow to hit a dinner plate at a quarter mile easily with a hard hold. What more do you need?

So, I think that a 1-5x illuminated reticle telescope is the most versatile optic on an AR15, however most of my shooting is with a red dot because it just seem to be more handy.

My JP Precision rifle is mounted with a fixed 10x target telescope and their fancy muzzle brake. With a hard hold you can see the bullet hole appear in the target. For other than bench or field position shooting with a tight sling it is not much of an advantage.

So...2 MOA red dot or 1-5X illuminated telescope...probably no real difference in hitting targets in the field. YMMV

Byron