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We had a bunch of Eotechs crap out on us. They sent us our own 'Eotech repair kit' that allowed us to mod the battery cases and replace the common failure parts.
I also brought a personal Eotech XPS 3-2 on the last deployment. it also crapped out on me for no apparent reason. It 'seemed' to be working fine, but then one day at the range zeroing it just turned off...and kept turning off randomly when I was shooting.
I have lost a lot of faith in eotech since I started this thread. I have pretty much broken every product they produce.
When they are working, there is nothing faster in the world for a close-up CQB sight. But despite advertised toughness, they seem to keep failing when you really put them to the daily grind in hard conditions.
I am getting ready to send my XPS back to Eotech, if they refuse to fix it then it will be war. Either way I don't think I am going to trust it on my gun downrange again. Especially because the only way I knew it was broken was because it turned off WHILE I was shooting, so it worked during PCI's, etc.
I am probably going to try Aimpoint, or I may put an Elcan back on my weapon. I may just be unusually hard on the optics, but I don't think so, and they *should* be able to handle just about anything. I am not banging the sights against anything hard enough to visibly gauge the protective shroud (aside from routine scuffs), break the glass, or cause any observable damage. The sights either simply stop working, or something inside breaks and begins to rattle around. The Heat may be a factor, but that is a known, expected factor and should have been accounted for.
But....
Yes, the military series (all of them) are far more durable than the original 51x series. They really do hold up better, just not for multiple rotations kicking around in Afghanistan on my particular rifle.
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