EOTECH + Magnifier combo recommendations

[littlecyclone]

Hello MiA, I'm looking for recommendations on a EOTECH/Magnifier combo. I've liked the premise of having both the EOTECH and magnifier (for the obvious unstated reasons), however the main issue I've stumbled across is every time I've seen a set together, they don't line up properly, and thusly you are left with part of one or the others frame partially blocking the sight picture. Unfortunately most websites that sell them as a set don't give you a picture looking through them both together, and I'm unwilling to drop cash on something like this sight unseen, as it were, or to buy them separately in the hopes that they work.

So for those of you that do mount them both at once, what brands/manufacturers would you recommend for/against, keeping in mind I'm looking for a clean-ish sight picture, and to not have to drop an awe-inspiring amount of cash.

[cqbr]

Unless you buy real steel, your ALWAYS going to have that obscured/inconsistent sight picture your talking about.

The mounts on the clone magnifiers are the problem as every single one of them are complete crap. The only way you can get them to work properly is to shim them so they return to the same 'Zero' after being flipped. As for the clone magnifiers themselves, all of the ones I've owned are shockingly nice. I haven't been able to tell the difference between any of the clone ones I've used and their real steel counterparts in terms of optic clarity and build.

Either that, or buy a real steel mount for the clone magnifier of your choosing.

Edit: Also, link to the one you were looking at?

[littlecyclone]

Hmmm... Didn't realize the mounts were where the issue was.. Wonder how much a set of real steel would set me back.. Sounds like a good excuse to go to a gun store, not that theres ever a bad excuse

I didn't have a specific link/website item that I had been looking at, I've really been idly checking pretty much the full gamut, redwolf, airsoftgi, evike, ehobby, etc etc etc..

[snafu]

I used Gunny's Holo sight and magnifier before and It worked pretty dang good. It seems to me that even if they don't line up 100% perfect you wouldn't notice. The part that I would be most concerned about is getting a good magnifier so that you have decent eye relief.

[Krutch]

I am having problems finding a solid Flip to side mount that doesn't wobble like crazy.

[Zorak]

I expect that this will violate your budget requirements, but a Yankee Hill EOTech mount and a Larue flip-to-side magnifier mount line up well enough.

[Thor]

And that's one of the problems you're going to run into. You're likely going to have to shell out the money for real steel mounts to get them to line up properly and have tight tolerances. Only exceptions I've seen so far are the copy LaRue scope mounts seem to be decent, as well as the Daniel Defense mounts. As far as anything fancy like the flip to side mounts though, your best bet is probably still shelling out the dough for the real mounts.

[cqbr]

I ordered a LaRue replica 3x FTS mount a wayyyyys back when the first came out and it was a piece of crap.

The people that made/sold it actually had the nerve to shim the inner wall of the mount with a hot glued zip tie since they made it to such crap tolerances. Odds are things have changed by now, but that's something to have in the back of your mind I suppose.

Like myself and the guys above suggested, start with the RS mount that you would like and go from there.