I don't even know what to say to this. You switched to Eotech after destroying two of the most durable aiming devices ever created? How's that POI drift, battery eating and parallax that supposedly doesn't exist treating you?
And what did you do to two aimpoints to kill them?
I explained the entire sad story to Ty last year on the Friday night before the BBQ. For your benefit here goes:
- I bought a pre-ban AR with Aimpoint Comp from Four Seasons back in 1999ish. It ran perfectly for many years and many thousands of PMC and Wolf ammo.
- One day I was cleaning some guns at Braintree R&P when a long time member came in and asked me if I was interested in an Aimpoint Comp he had just taken off his pistol. I bought it.
- Suddenly ~2010-11 my original Aimpoint blanks out after shooting a couple of .223 rounds (I don't reload rifle, using only factory ammo). Replacing batteries didn't help. It worked for a bit and then blanks out.
- So I mount the 2nd one (I hadn't used it up to this point). Works for a while and then same deal.
- I contacted John Enloe, Repairs Manager at Aimpoint. He advises me that it is likely the switch and not an uncommon problem. Units are no longer under warranty so I ship both off for repair ($89 each IIRC). They send them off to Sweden for repair.
- After about 3 months I get them back. I can only say that the interior of the battery compartment has the same wear marks as when I sent them in for repair. They installed new batteries but left one switched on so it was DOA, replaced batteries and mounted one on the rifle.
- I hadn't been shooting that rifle very much so months went by before I took it to the range. Same problem occurred after shooting a while. Mounted the other Aimpoint and contacted John Enloe again. He had me ship that one back to him.
- Got that one back about a month later.
- Both units switched off after some shooting. I gave up! Last time it happened I was shooting with a friend who is a Fed so he let me shoot his with the EOTech (that is what his agency uses and he manages a SWAT team). It ran great.
- I bought an EOTech using the LE discount (or instructor, don't recall which) program direct from EOTech.
- I'm not looking back!
Both Aimpoint Comps are just sitting here collecting dust. Ty suggested (last year) talking to Aimpoint again but I'm not sure that it is worth my effort. Likely will just sell them off with full disclosure of issues and let someone else play with them. Maybe they will work better with Airsoft!