The other reason I run the ACOG is for another type of interface with my PVS-14.
Thats my problem with articles like this. Who has $3,000-$4,000 just for optics? This dude must be made of money. Find a decent AR pattern rifle, (yea, I know. Good luck), put a decent red dot on it. Get a sling.
Then learn how to use the damned thing. Competence and confidence will more than make up for your lack of high dollar attachments.
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My two Colts got the plastic Magpul flip-up rear sights, Vickers slings, and Aimpoint PROs. That's as much as I can spend on them. The rest get the cheap slings that go on the factory swivels, and Bushnell TRS-25s on co-witness risers.
That's a "budget" battery.It cost a bundle, but it's nothing compared to *one gun* in this article.
He has photos of a Trijicon ACOG mounted behind the PVS-14.
$3,200 for the PVS-14 and $1,500 for the ACOG. He also had a laser mounted, and not one of the cheap pointers, but one that shows up in thermal imaging.
That's easily $5,800 in gadgetry. We'd love to have it, just can't afford it.
I do have a Vortex flash supressor. I never got around to mounting it and now it's in storage.