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Can't believe I didn't notice it until last night, but I was playing some MW2 multiplayer using the P90 and realized what it was about it that I always thought was wrong. I just couldn't put my finger on it before. Might be completely obvious to others but, despite the weird top-mounted magazine being kind of slow compared to vertical, stacked magazines, there's another thing.



See it?

The sight radius. It's downright tiny! Goes from the rear part of the little top-mounted arm thing to the front. It might have a long barrel length for its overall length, but studies have proven that sight radius has more to do with accuracy than barrel length (within reason--2" barrel with three foot sight radius still won't be any bench rest rifle).

The P90's portability is its main point, and I'm not trying to offer points against it as a long range percision rifle by saying this (because that's not what it is), but a pistol with a stock may have more accuracy than the P90's configuration. Problem is, they can't do a damn thing about it unless they want to change the whole design. Until we come up with super-projected holographic sights.

In other, more awesome, news--I had a local shop/pistol range order my shotgun. Would have it Friday if UPS delivered on New Years (bastards!) so I cant wait till Monday. mrgreen

The longer your sight picture, the more accurate your efforts to line the front sight up within the rear. It's kind of hard to explain, but it works. There's more space between, so you end up lining them more accurately. We're talking about tiny fractions of millimeters of difference between the front and rear sights, but it turns to inches and feet at distances.

Isn't the built-in optic a piece of s**t, too?

Lasers are not perfect and also have parallax. Such as similar faults to a scope--it really is only accurate at the given distance, because normal sights actually aim downwards slightly, to intersect the ballistic arc at a given point. And it's PHYSICALLY moving the gun to align the sites. Not adjusting the sites themselves. A longer sight radius does increase potential accuracy, because they front and rear sites and be aligned in even smaller increments, and easier (within reason. s**t gets heavy and long really fast.)

I've looked through one, and I like the reticle. Zero trigger time though, so I can't say how well it works.

As to the BUIS, they're just that; back-ups. They're only there if your main sights break, and if they've broken, you're probably in close enough combat that ANY iron sights are good enough.

It's got no magnification, and it's surprisingly clear on most backgrounds. The BUIS are only there for incredibly adverse conditions, like "my glass optics just took a bullet/grenade fragment and there's nothing left to look through".

And I've tried the Trijicon. No idea how they even sell them... the glare was so bad I couldn't see the target through the reflection of my own eye.

First, that's for an Aimpoint, not a Trijicon. Second, that's for the outside, so other people don't see your glare. This was me seeing my own glare, to the point where I couldn't tell reticle from cornea.

Why the hell are you using such a large, heavy gun for that range, though?