What he said. Mine are, but that's purely coincidental. If I'm down to using the irons, the red dot isn't working anyway. But do make sure your irons are zeroed for a known distance.AndyC wrote:Doesn't matter to me whether irons and optics co-witness or not.
My carbine has both an EOTech sight and an EOTech 3X magnifier. The sight reticle is very nice and it works very well. But being perfectly honest, I don't pay too much attention to the outer ring of the reticle, just the dot placement... ...although I did notice yesterday at the range that the outer ring appears to be the width of a B27 target silhouette at 25 yards. So that is a handy piece of information to squirrel away.
But even though the EOTech sight alone works very well, it is golden with the magnifier in place — particularly with my aging eyes. You can't miss. I believe that I might even be comfortable using the sight and magnifier combo for hunting, assuming the caliber was appropriate for the application. It's not as good as a good riflescope for hunting, but it is still pretty good. But the magnifiers are expensive. I got mine from an Arizona vendor on ebay for $499.00 (with free shipping), with the EOTech flip-to-side mount included. MSRP is $589, so $499 isn't too bad of a price, particularly since there is no sales tax or freight involved.
But, there are other good manufacturers out there on the market, and their products are just as good, just different. In some cases they are better. What works for me might not work for you, so don't feel like you have to go with EOTech. However, like anything else having to do with optics, better costs more, regardless of brand name.