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The Quartermaster said:
You like the Aimpoints or LPVO less? I'm 48 and wear glasses too.
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The RDS/HWS (Aimpoint EOTech, whichever) better. I think. I find that wearing glasses I have to have perfect cheek weld to engage closer targets faster. With an Aimpoint/EOTech It seems to be faster for me and I can keep both eyes open.

I will shoot another thousand rounds at the range in a variety of situations to figure it out, but at first blush I will probably end up replacing it with a red dot.
 
Devildoc said:
The RDS/HWS (Aimpoint EOTech, whichever) better. I think. I find that wearing glasses I have to have perfect cheek weld to engage closer targets faster. With an Aimpoint/EOTech It seems to be faster for me and I can keep both eyes open.

I will shoot another thousand rounds at the range in a variety of situations to figure it out, but at first blush I will probably end up replacing it with a red dot.
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Okay, at first I was wondering if it was the weight of the LPVO or an astigmatism with the CQO, but what you said I can relate to. It's a training issue.

The issue I had was with the magnification at full zoom and trying to get hits when something closer is now a target. This is where the offset CQO shines, but it also helps to have this too to make switching powers so much faster: http://shop.aadmount.com/Throw-Levers_c20.htm

I've combined both and am finding myself to be faster. The problem I had initially with offsets was either sight height or sight placement. It's a full can of worms and a rabbit hole should you decide to dig deeper.
 
Tinman6 said:
@The Quartermaster ,
What do you think of the combination of a VUDU 1-6 with SR3. With either the rm 06, or rm 09 as offset RDS?
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Not sure as I've never tried that combo. Yet. I'm more of a Deltapoint Pro using the Arisaka offset with the Trijicon Accupower 1-4 223 segmented circle dot or the Vortex 1-6 PST 2 MRAD.

Honest opinion on the fly: They should work in tandem as both have great reviews as a standalone. Buy, mount, zero, then run. It's the only way to know for yourself.

Are you on Facebook? Follow Ash Hess at Quantified Performance. If you don't already know who he is, he's the guy that took a broke marksmanship program from the US Army, trashed it where it belongs under file 13, and made it something that was a long time coming and up to date. He's a fan of the offset in combination with the LPVO, and he has tons of info. He is not afraid to share his knowledge.
 
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Tinman6 said:
@The Quartermaster, you are giving solid advice on the training issue. FOV at 1x is usually very generous. On a quality LPVO Leupold, EOtech, NightForce, etc.
@Devildoc, try employing at 100 and in on 1x. Use as if it is RDS. Also if your optic is SFP. Zero at full magnification. Or you will definitely be off on holds at any power.
Reticle choice can be a bit challenging too. Trijicon and Primary Arms have great reticles in my experience.
just my.02, happy shooting👍
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The problem is that I wear bifocals, er, "progressive lenses". It's not like being behind a long gun where I can get my sight picture and have parallax set up, on the AR when I'm working on speed drills bringing it up from the ready It takes me too long to get my cheek weld to get my head right with my glasses.

With a red dot it doesn't matter if the target is 1 ft or 100 yd I can usually do what I need to do.
 
If we are talking LPVO's. I highly recommend the Vortex Razor II 1-6. I don't think it can be beat as far as cost to performance goes. The thing is a tank (and a bit heavy), has a huge forgiving eye box at 1X, very clear glass, and an aimpoint bright red dot. It has the closest performance to an aimpoint/eotech I have seen in an LPVO.
 
Devildoc said:
The problem is that I wear bifocals, er, "progressive lenses". It's not like being behind a long gun where I can get my sight picture and have parallax set up, on the AR when I'm working on speed drills bringing it up from the ready It takes me too long to get my cheek weld to get my head right with my glasses.

With a red dot it doesn't matter if the target is 1 ft or 100 yd I can usually do what I need to do.
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I’m 58 with astigmatism and, progressive bi-focals. I know what you mean. I thought maybe a 3x magnifier behind an RDS. I got to much elongation of the dot. More of a smear. That problem doesn’t happen with an etched reticle optic.
 
Tinman6 said:
I was thinking of that gen 2 Vortex. Been seeing a lot of nice work with it. I just happen to come up on a good deal on the VUDU 1-6 SR3.
Would like to hear your opinion if you have one. On this scope.
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I haven't used it, but I've heard it's a good optic. GarandThumb on youtube, as cringy as he is sometimes, had a video comparing the 2 I believe.
 

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