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The Annoyed Man wrote:

txfireguy2003 wrote:Thanks guys. I posted this question on another forum as well, and got similar responses. I am not really interested in a red dot at this time, because I don't really see the benefit of them. If I wanted a sight without magnification, I'd just use the irons. I've been hearing lots of bad stuff about a lot of lower priced scopes, everyone wants me to go with Leupold, Nikon etc, so I thought I would see what the oppinion on here is. I'm really thinking I'm going to continue in my old habits, since I've used tons of cheaper scopes over the years from BSA, Simmon, etc and never had any problems with them, I think that's what I will be looking at. Anyone have any experience with the BSA Sweet 223 scopes?

I have two ARs, one is a 24" heavy barreled varmint rifle with a Burris XTR tactical 3-12x50mm, and the other is a 16" carbine with an M4 barrel with A2 sight post, a flip up A.R.M.S #40L rear flip up sight, and an Eotech holographic sight.

The benefit of the Eotech is rapid target acquisition - MUCH more rapid and intuitive than the irons by themselves. In fact, my eyes are far enough gone that the irons by themselves are nearly useless to me. I keep them on the rifle strictly as a back up in case the Eotech fails (which isn't that likely). But even without magnification, the Eotech is absolutely confidence inspiring. If I can put the red dot on it, I can hit it. That's the value the value of red dot type systems, and I've heard the owners of other brands such as Aimpoint say much the same things as I'm saying.