Co-Witness follow-up

11 Mar 08

Follow up on the subject of "co-witnessing:"

Mark LaRue (LaRue Tactical), Dave Lauek (D&L Sports), and others who manufacture mounts and risers for co-witnessing 1X rifle optics don't makethem so that iron-sights line up in the exact middle of the scope. Instead, they arrange for iron-sights to line up in the bottom-third of the scope. Mostof us agree that this is the more satisfactory arrangement, as it gets the optic's aiming reticle, isolated and uncongested, above the iron-sight line.

With EOTechs and Aimpoints, no matter how the operator moves his head, the aiming reticle will correspondingly move around in scope, but always be on targets, so long as the Operator can see it. Thus, when the Operator lowers his head slightly, he will able to position the reticle and iron-sights (assuming they're deployed) exactly on line. This exact alignment will always take place in the lower third of the scope.

When he subsequently lifts his head slightly, iron-sights will remain in the lower third of the scope, but the reticle will return to the middle, and iron-sights will then no longer be "in the way."

So, when I use the term "co-witness," I don't mean that iron-sights and optic reticle are necessarily exactly superimposed over each other in the middle of the scope, although I'm sure you can have it that way if you wish! As I indicated, the "bottom-third" set-up is the one preferred by the majority of us.

/John

They Don't Get it!

11 Mar 08

They don't get it. They don't want to!

With the massacre of innocents that took place in a suburban Chicago shopping mall in February still fresh on their minds, residents recently attended a meeting with the local PD. Nervous attendees wanted guidance from their police with regard to surviving the next such incident. What they received was profoundly unhelpful! What they received was hollow, emasculate, let' s-all-be-good-little-victims, perfidiousness. It is all too typical!

Victims in the incident had been herded into a back room by a gun-wielding armed-robbery suspect and then coldly murdered, one-by-one. Attendees wanted to know what to do when another such active VCA starts precipitously murdering innocent people. They were told:

"We believe the best to do is be compliant..." "Conformity is safest..." "If someone runs, it could make the robber madder..." " Do exactly as they state..., and don't be a hero."

The political mood in Illinois is apparently so committed to the dogma of learned-helplessness and compulsory-victimhood, that police themselves are now actually advising citizens that it is their civic duty to passively allow themselves to be murdered by violent criminals and take no action to prevent it! If recent events are any guide, this "be-a-willing-victim"strategy will play right into the hands of murderous sociopaths, but none of this seems to concern leftist bureaucrats. Even the concept of "being a hero" is now denigrated and mocked as somehow unpatriotic!

Amazing that American Citizens are being officially instructed that there is nothing worth fighting for, not even their own lives, not even the lives of their families! ... and this "guidance" is being promulgated by public employees, who, paradoxically, are all bearing guns Their deeds belie their vacuous rhetoric! Their lives are apparently worth protecting. Ours evidently aren't.

"Find out just what the people will submit to, and you will have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted, with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

Fred Douglass

/John