Integrated sight was an end user request.
X300 at 12 is nice, but not to the point that I would give up the sleekness of the flip out of the way.
Really unless you mounting a can the 3 or 9 positions for a light are fine, and even then you can make it work, a lot of people run dual X300's each side.
The main reason for the integrated sight is when a PEQ-15/16 is on high power, units have been finding that the laser has some spill and sights on the rail can reflect enough back into the users NODs to cause blind spots permanently burned into the eye.
I hear you on the wrench.
Big_Red has one that is going to wing its way to Petwawa, but we are still going to try to get a cheaper wrench out.
Other than EOTECH's, I've never had an optic fail to where I needed to use my irons, and I prefer to keep mine down, I'm well aware I am at odds with LAV on this. I feel inside 100m if the optic fails, I can still aim over the weapon and get hits, outside that range, odds are I will have time to pop the sights up (and potnetially my optic off) -- that said, my biggest fear these days is a paper target becoming animated and attacking me, and I have a staple gun to solve that threat
X300 at 12 is nice, but not to the point that I would give up the sleekness of the flip out of the way.
Really unless you mounting a can the 3 or 9 positions for a light are fine, and even then you can make it work, a lot of people run dual X300's each side.
The main reason for the integrated sight is when a PEQ-15/16 is on high power, units have been finding that the laser has some spill and sights on the rail can reflect enough back into the users NODs to cause blind spots permanently burned into the eye.
I hear you on the wrench.
Big_Red has one that is going to wing its way to Petwawa, but we are still going to try to get a cheaper wrench out.
Other than EOTECH's, I've never had an optic fail to where I needed to use my irons, and I prefer to keep mine down, I'm well aware I am at odds with LAV on this. I feel inside 100m if the optic fails, I can still aim over the weapon and get hits, outside that range, odds are I will have time to pop the sights up (and potnetially my optic off) -- that said, my biggest fear these days is a paper target becoming animated and attacking me, and I have a staple gun to solve that threat
