More recently I got a 1.5-4X scope for one of my carbine. I have not used it enough to decide if I'm going to keep it on my carbine or not. I think it will be durable enough but I'm not sure yet. I like the versatility of 1.5X to 4X power but that's just something else to distract. I usually just keep it at 2X power and not change the setting. One bog advantage is that because it's a "scope" it makes it easier to make long range shots.
This is the setup (Leupold 1.5-4x20) I used on my AR built for hunting. I 1st put it on a 6.8 and then later on a .458 SOCOM. I really liked the scope for hunting with the carbine. The carbine is light and easily maneuverable in a tree stand, a shooting house or stalking. The scope works well for all 3 situations. I used a Leupold offset mount and this setup is tough, atleast for my hunting purposes. I have traded out of all my AR's but I kept the scope and likes it so much I mounted it on a Rem 7 in .308 using DNZ mounts.
I went ahead and bought an Aim Point and a counterstrike. I put the Aimpoint on the Adams Arms and it was almost dead on at 50 yards out of the box. I put the Counterstrike on a Double star I had laying around and it also performed great out of the box too. The Aim Point has more brightness settings, but the Counterstrike has two colors and a lazer. I figure for hog hunting either will work just fine. Thanks for all the input..
I bought one of the Counterstrikes and mine wouldn't hold zero, I swapped it for another one and it had the same issues. Also the laser is useless on an AR if you have a front sight on the gun. On a rifle or flat top AR it would be a good thing. No clue why they wouldn't put it on the side knowing they were going to be put on AR's.
Hopefully yours performs better then mine did, I really liked it aside from those issues..
I liked my so much I bought another and my buddy bought one too. As for the laser you are right you need to have a removable front sight in order to use it. For the money I don't think you can beat them.
Back about 20 years ago I used a Tasco PDP1 red dot sight on my Ruger Super Redhawk for few years.
I never had any problem with that sight and later it was moved to my Ruger Mini-14 for a while and now it sits on my Remington 870 slug gun.
It has never had any problem despite sitting on some heavy recoil guns.
Something I learned recently is that early/original PDP1 were made in Japan and Korea but more recent ones are made in China and components are different.
