{"id":2988,"date":"2013-09-22T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2013-09-22T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T15:09:59","slug":"full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2988","title":{"rendered":"Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you that have been following along at home know that about a year ago I got an M&P15-22. Originally, I set it up as a .22 copy of my main AR<\/a>. Pretty quickly after that, I made some modifications to my main AR<\/a> and then tried to set up the M&P15-22 as an Appleseed Rifle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That little venture failed spectactularly<\/a>, so now the AR trainer is back to being an AR trainer. I finally bought a cheap UTAC red\/green dot reflex sight<\/a>\"\" and mounted it:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3361\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, I haven’t had an opportunity to take this out to the range, so all my observations don’t take into account the actual operation while shooting. So there’s that.<\/p>\n

More pictures and observations below the fold…
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\"Your<\/a>
Your standard “I came from a random factory in China” packaging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"IMG_3343\"<\/a>
\nOpening up the package shows us some rudimentary instructions, a tack cloth, the sight, and a couple of hex wrenches. The sight has a rubber cover for the lens, which I didn’t expect. The way it’s made, though, I suspect that it will rip after a few times taking it off and putting it back on. <\/p>\n

Overall construction was better than I was expecting.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3344\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3345\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3346\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3347\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I took off the protective cover, I discovered that the lens has a reflective coating on the front.
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\"Reflective<\/a>
Reflective side towards enemy. Tactical it ain’t.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
\"I<\/a>
I mean really<\/i> reflective.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"IMG_3349\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to the 3 red and 3 green settings, there are 4 reticles. The color and intensity are set by turning the wheel on top, and the reticle is selected via a lever on the bottom.<\/p>\n

Now, the wheel also<\/i> houses the CR2032 battery, and if you turn the top of the wheel counter-clockwise you’ll accidentally remove the battery. Kinda poor design, there.<\/p>\n

Here are the 4 reticles in red:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3353\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3354\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3355\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3356\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s what green looks like:
\n\"IMG_3357\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Incidentally, that’s the reticle I plan on using.<\/p>\n

The ghost images of the reticles are due to the angle of my camera. They’re not visible when you look through the sight properly. EOTech it ain’t.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3358\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_3360\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Elevation and windage adjustments accomplished via these two hex screws. They appear to interfacing with a detent, but I can’t confirm that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, like I said I haven’t taken this out to the range yet, but this cheap reflex sight<\/a>\"\" seems like it might be worth the $30. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you that have been following along at home know that about a year ago I got an M&P15-22. Originally, I set it up as a .22 copy of my main AR. Pretty quickly after that, I made some modifications to my main AR and then tried to set up the M&P15-22 as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}