Primary Arms Cyclops 1x

[Sanders]

I inherited a Vortex Sparc II that I put on my home defense AR. It is quite user friendly, but it is still battery dependent. It isn't an Aimpoint, but the price was right (free).

I’ve always liked red dot optics. Coming into the Army about the same time the M68 was becoming standard issue, I grew to like the speed that a red dot afforded. Later on down the road I started running them on the AK, and grew to like Aimpoint’s T1 for a sleek, ultralight setup. That said, there’s always a ‘but’… that being the question of having a battery-only optic. While we’ve come a long, long way since the heyday of the M68, and battery life over a decade and a half later is far beyond the technology of that era. ‘But’…no battery, no reticle.

Throughout the years since I was first issued an ACOG, I always placed a high value on having a permanent reticle not dependent on a battery. Not only that, the 4x magnification helped with PID (positive identification) of insurgents during engagements and made precision work much easier. Over the years I’ve always thought a 1x prismatic optic like the ACOG would do very well on weapons intended for close contact.

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