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**Peregrino** · 04-16-2016, 19:13

I had an extensive conversation with an EoTech rep at SHOT this year. For a representative of a company engaged in "damage control" he was unusually candid. (I also shortstopped the usual protestations and established my creds immediately; otherwise I doubt he would have spent the time.) Bottom line - there were four "defects" that had to be addressed; some of them were relatively easy, one can't be fixed within the current technology (the thermal shift). If I were taking the weapon to combat and expecting to face extreme temperature variation over the course of a 24 hour cycle, I would get a different sight. EoTech will make good on returns; L-3's reputation depends on it. As for me - I've got four of them - two 552s and two 553s. They're just fine for the uses I'm putting them to so I'm probably not going to send them in until I have something better. Then again I'm not in the sandbox where it's <40 at night and >110 during the day. And I'm confident that with the occasional zero check, even if it's off a bit I can still get rounds to impact within MOZ (minute of zombie) at <150M. Know your requirements and your capabilities and make a judgement call.

Now why in hell would someone want to put an EoTech on a home defense shotgun? That defies what little common sense I might have possessed at one time.

04-16-2016, 19:13	#13
Peregrino Quiet Professional Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Occupied Pineland Posts: 4,701	I had an extensive conversation with an EoTech rep at SHOT this year. For a representative of a company engaged in "damage control" he was unusually candid. (I also shortstopped the usual protestations and established my creds immediately; otherwise I doubt he would have spent the time.) Bottom line - there were four "defects" that had to be addressed; some of them were relatively easy, one can't be fixed within the current technology (the thermal shift). If I were taking the weapon to combat and expecting to face extreme temperature variation over the course of a 24 hour cycle, I would get a different sight. EoTech will make good on returns; L-3's reputation depends on it. As for me - I've got four of them - two 552s and two 553s. They're just fine for the uses I'm putting them to so I'm probably not going to send them in until I have something better. Then again I'm not in the sandbox where it's <40 at night and >110 during the day. And I'm confident that with the occasional zero check, even if it's off a bit I can still get rounds to impact within MOZ (minute of zombie) at <150M. Know your requirements and your capabilities and make a judgement call. Now why in hell would someone want to put an EoTech on a home defense shotgun? That defies what little common sense I might have possessed at one time. __________________ A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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