Ok good deal, that helps a lot. J.A.B., what do you mean about the hold offs, I have zero scope experience, other than playing around shooting cans in a field on buddies rifles. The 2 options I was looking at was just an ACOG with BAC for CQB and distance or an ACOG and a rail mount laser for under 100 meters. Which setup would work better for general purpose?
Hold off is used when you do not want to adjust the actual retical in the optic. Say you have a 10 MPH wind from left to right; it would push your bullet impact to the right X number of inches @ X distance. To get a more precise impact you would adjust your optic “retical” X number of inches to the left to counter the wind push on the bullet, thus giving you point of aim/ point of impact. A hold off is when you do not want to adjust, so you aim your retical X number of inches into the wind to get the desired impact.
Normally it is done in 4 inch increments:
Aim point 1 = 4inchs
Aim point 2 = 8inchs
Aim point 3 = 12inchs
Aim point 4 = 16inchs
The average human measurement is 19 to 20 inches from arm pit to arm pit. Using an aim point 1 (left), you would hold the retical on the outer edge of the left side of the head and move it down to center of mass. Aim point 2 (left) you would hold the retical around the left nipple. Aim point 3 (left) you would hold around the left arm. And for aim point 4 you would hold slightly outside the left side of the target it’s self.
As for use of the TA31F in CQM, the red chevron is visible through the optic for a flash sight picture. I know most people do not like a 4X magnification for CQM, however I have been able to run the TA31F during CQM training and have been faster with it then students using Aimpoint M2 optics and the shot groups were much tighter then the M2’s. I personally do not care for lasers other the IR...
As far as what ACOG to go with, I would recommend the TA31F especially if you are not up to speed with other ACOG optics. JJ and MAC both know their shit, but its apples and oranges as per preference. They can give you more info on the TA01NSN if they care too…