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  • Will this high enough to co witness with iron sights on the AR


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  • Reading Trevor's answer then reading James' answer should show you the difference between someone who actually knows what they are talking about (Trevor) and someone who Googles all their answers (James).
    LPVO's (Low powered variable opitic) are not designed to cowitness period. If you want something that will cowitness get a reddot/reflex sight then you can get a flip down magnifier, but trying it with with this scope is going to be a mess, to expand a little on what Trevor said about "Eye relief" when your LPVO is to far forward you end up getting a lot of "scope shadow" it shrinks your eyebrow dramatically and makes the optic virtually unusable. Your eyebox even on 1x is designed to viewed at a specific distance from your eye (usually 2-4") then scope shadow and blacking of your field of view just gets worse as you increase the magnification on an lpvo.
    One other option you could go with is offset irons, they mount on a flat pic rail but hang off the side
    Great 2 minute video showing them here
    amazon.com/vdp/fa791ca53c9d4275bb8ff8bacca91ef6?product=B00QMXVJSQ

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  • Mark, on the 1x setting you will have a lower 1/3 co-witness. The front sight will get increasingly blurry and be non usable on the magnified settings. Picatinny spacesr are available to get true co-witness.

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  • It is likely high enough but iron sights and magnified optics are a bit mutually exclusive for other reasons. The objective bell of the scope would interfere with mounting a fixed rear sight or opening a flip-up sight unless you mounted the scope very far forward in which case there is too much eye relief for the scope to be usable. If that weren't an issue, using any magnification changes the minimum focal distance of objects you can see so a front sight would be very blurry or outright invisible through the scope. It is for these reasons that quick detach mounts exist for scopes or alternative offset iron sight mounts.

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