Aimpoint vs Eotech Magnified.

[Zerodefect]

No it's still 2moa. But it appears bigger. If your dot covers 4" of the target, it still covers 4" of target when mag'd.

Your magnifier zooms in what it sees, but it can't change your dot size relative to your target. The entire picture in your aimpoint gets magnified including your dot.


I like the larger Comp m3 aimpoints when a magnifier is needed. Use larue mounts and they line up great.
I don't like ACOG's anymore. I think the Trijicon Accupoint 1-4x scope and Nightforces version do the same role with more and less magnification (adjustable) for better adabtability.

 

[benEzra]

Is this true? So a 2moa dot on a Comp series, when seen through the Aimpoint will actually become 6moa?

Only to your eye. The dot will still cover a 2" circle at 100 yards under 3x, but the dot and the background will both be enlarged 3x in your vision, so the 2 MOA dot magnified 3x will appear as big as a 6 MOA dot would at 1x.

The reason this isn't true of the Eotech is that it the Eotech center dot is way, way smaller than 1 MOA and only appears to "bloom" to 1 MOA because your eyeball can't render anything smaller. So if you put a 3x magnifier behind an Eotech, the background and the dot are magnified 3x as usual, but the dot is so tiny that your eye still sees it as 1 MOA. So whereas the Aimpoint dot will cover 2" at 100 yards under all magnifications, the Eotech dot will appear to your eye to cover 1" at 100 yards under 1x, 0.33" at 100 yards under 3x, 0.25" at 100 yards under 4x, etc. because the perceived dot size doesn't increase as the background is magnified behind it. There is eventually a magnification that would start causing the Eotech dot to appear larger (once you reach the diffraction limit of the Eotech optical system itself), but it is greater than 4x.