Gun Porn: Slidefire and EOTech Epic Fail

Alternate title: Why you need BUIS 😀

This rifle was one of the ones at the ARFCOM TN shoot.

Pretty, ain’t she? Slidefire, Magpul MVG, Magpul MOE Handguard. Beautiful.

But there’s a problem.

The EOTech (either an XPS2 or an XPS3, I can’t tell) had it’s lower piece of glass just kind of banging around inside the housing.

That’s a bad day. I think the same gentleman also had a BCG lock up inside a rifle. Really, really bad day.

The very first time I ever went shooting with Oleg, two very embarrassing things happened.

1. I was the reason we had to wear hearing protection, because I was the only one without suppressors
2. The alkaline batteries in my EOTech 512 had blown up and corroded the battery compartment, rendering it useless

I also didn’t have backup irons on that rifle. I pretty quickly was able to repair the EOTech (replacement parts are cheap) and within a couple of weeks had put on an MBUS rear sight and a YHM Front Sight.

There is an argument to be made about not putting backup sights on all your rifles, but two is one and one is none. You can do what this guy did, though: Bring lots of rifles 😀