I remember reading that during the Second (I think it was the second?) Battle of Fallujah, there was some initial concern that US Marines had been executing enemy combatants due to the unusually high proportion of headshots.
Turns out, no, it was just the first time they’d been in a large-scale combat operation with widespread use of ACOG sights.
… not that there weren’t a laundry list of other problems of conduct at the time. But the headshots weren’t executions.
I’ve heard this story repeated for years. When I have dug online to find confirmation, all I’ve found are mountains of people saying “Yup it’s totally true.” I’ve never found a link to any official DOD statement or anything I’d consider definitive.
This bit of lore seems to stem from Richard Venola who wrote articles for ‘Guns & Ammo’ magazine, but beyond that it’s a dead end, at least in my searches. Lots of people chiming in to confirm the story is true either read or heard of his ACOG article, but more people repeating a singular questionable source doesn’t make it more true.
This has always smelled to me a bit too much of a tidy narrative that’s a not at all disguised humblebrag. Until a real source comes out, I put as much faith in it as I do a ‘Dear Penthouse’ article.
I mean, uh, woozle wuzzle.
Until a real source comes out, I put as much faith in it as I do a ‘Dear Penthouse’ article.
Are you insinuating the sexscapades I’ve dedicated my life to achieving were just entertaining fluff!?
ACOGs are fantastic. The 4x fiber illumination assisted variations are the best all rounders (TA31 is my personal preference). I’d want them to update with a variable diopter but that’s about the only issue, and the only reason I’d even look twice at a 1-4x LPVO.
ACOG eye relief can feel a little bit cramped, but if you remove the BUIS and mount the ACOG all the way to the rear as originally intended the problem goes away. If you’re uncomfortable with the idea of no BUIS then just mount the ACOG on a carry handle since high rise optics are in fashion anyway these days. Personally I’m fine with no BUIS as the rifle will probably break before the ACOG. Or just get a TA01 ACOG with built in iron sights, but it has a less versatile reticle.
ACOG with a red dot on top (not an RMR, Trijicon cannot into good red dots) is the all purpose setup. If you get spendy and get a closed emitter red dot from a good company like Aimpoint you’ve got a, as Nutnfancy would call it, TEOTWAWKI setup.
TEOTWAWKI
“The End Of The World As We Know It”
Today I learned
They look cool with the red fiber optic stripe. Other scopes need to step up their aesthetic game and be more tacticool.
I feel like we have the technology to at least make the eye relief a little more forgiving, and probably some other things I’m not thinking of, but I think Trijicon is content to sell the same product for decades like Glock.
Yeah, they really had everything we’d ever want back then. I just never had the money unfortunately AND I was of course already a snob about dubs and thought fansubs were vastly superior anyway.
… Oh, are we not talking about the Anime Connection Of Germany? Never mind.
