Rifle Scopes trijicon acog ?

[416barrett]

need help sorting out which acog will work on a rifle that neither 308 or 223. On their wbeiste the ones that not listed at calibrated for 308,223 are for a m16 flat base whatever that is ?

http://www.trijicon.com/user/parts/products1.cfm?PartID=808&back_row=4&categoryID=3

how do these differ from a redot ? i here it doesnt have paralax free like most redots .also does anyone have a picture looking through there acog down range ? Will heavy recoil say 60-90 ft lbs break it ?

 

[error4o4]

Re: trijicon acog ?

Trijicon will do custom BDC in their reticles. I haven't looked into this, so I can't comment on price, but I know they offer it. They offer a few models with 6.8 options now as well.

 

[robdes]

Re: trijicon acog ?

I'm pretty sure that ACOG's are considered to be the most durable optics period. I think that you would have to try really hard to break one.

They are nothing like a red dot. They are magnified and they don't have unlimited eye relief. They are simply fixed low power scopes.

 

[Zhurh]

Re: trijicon acog ?

I have the 4X32 red dot/ghost ring on my 6.8 and completely satisfied. It has the BDC lines but if I could have had mil-dots; probably would have went that way. The ghost ring makes for super quick target acquisition and it works at low light (right at dusk) but not as bright as in the sun. I'd like to buy another acog for 223 15 but they are around a $1000 so that kind of money would have to go for say an NF.

We hunt off snowmachine & atv with AR's; been using 223's for years, 6.8 my first other than 223 in an AR. I killed a caribou long ways off with acog this fall, over 550 yards. The bou winded me and took off, then started feeding again when they got a safe distance. The ghost ring went all the way up over the bou's antlers at that distance. At 100 yards, the red dot covers an 8 inch circle, so really the acog is kinda 200 yard quick shooter. I popped 5 quick shots off at the first bull that turned sideways, raising up each shot. Hit him twice out of 5 shots, lower leg & gut; the ravens beat me to him. So I hit him twice out of 5 quick shots; with that acog that is a close range scope to begin with.

I have a couple old aimpoints on 223's but now favor the acog; tha ghost ring is the ticket in my book.

 

[Emouse]

Re: trijicon acog ?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Zhurh</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have the 4X32 red dot/ghost ring on my 6.8 and completely satisfied. It has the BDC lines but if I could have had mil-dots; probably would have went that way. The ghost ring makes for super quick target acquisition and it works at low light (right at dusk) but not as bright as in the sun. I'd like to buy another acog for 223 15 but they are around a $1000 so that kind of money would have to go for say an NF.

We hunt off snowmachine & atv with AR's; been using 223's for years, 6.8 my first other than 223 in an AR. I killed a caribou long ways off with acog this fall, over 550 yards. The bou winded me and took off, then started feeding again when they got a safe distance. The ghost ring went all the way up over the bou's antlers at that distance. At 100 yards, the red dot covers an 8 inch circle, so really the acog is kinda 200 yard quick shooter. I popped 5 quick shots off at the first bull that turned sideways, raising up each shot. Hit him twice out of 5 shots, lower leg & gut; the ravens beat me to him. So I hit him twice out of 5 quick shots; with that acog that is a close range scope to begin with.

I have a couple old aimpoints on 223's but now favor the acog; tha ghost ring is the ticket in my book.
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Sorry friend but taking multiple shots essentially unaimed at live quarry is not something to be proud of. This gives hunters and shooters a bad name.

 

[Zhurh]

Re: trijicon acog ?

Well my friend, In Alaska; it's about fresh meat (which nature & creator provides if you respect & give thanks) not sport hunting which is seen as immoral (wildlife's place in the scheme of things is to provide sustenance to man, not antlers). It's called subsistence. We are allowed 5 caribou/day per hunter, every day of the 5 month long season; but nobody needs that much meat.

Actually, I wanted to kill something with the new 6.8/acog and the caribou had just showed up. Hadn't planned a long shot but wanted to try it just the same. I could have just as easily dropped the bull with the 30-378, one shot at any reasonable distance; but when on 4wheelers or snowmachines, the AR's are what we use. I was also trying to make the point that the acog was the perfect long range scope, ha ha; but I luv mine just the same.

The trouble with people all over the world and in different places is they all develop their own different world views; become extremely enthrocentric. They judge everybody else and think everybody else must think & have the same value systems they believe to be true & their norm. In the real world, it really ain't that way. So, I have learned not to judge others and just keep my mouth shut when I run into things that seem quite strange to me also; no offense but do you see what I mean? It's common for us to shoot a bunch of caribou on the road, gut & swing up over into trk bed and pass them out to the older folks in our community who can't get out and about anymore. Yet people who see the picts of caribou draped all over the trk bed are offended; we all think good, fresh meat; different perspective.