like to hear some pros and con on the ncstar tactical scopes. i like one of them but, dont know of the quality of the product. its going on my first m4 and just learning to shoot the weapon. anyway if this is not a good scope should i hold out and save money and keep practicing with my buis or what? thanks
i’m gonna hazard a guess and say they’re probably the single worst quality glass on the American market today…
somebody please correct me if i’m wrong
I believe you are correct. I would mount a dog bone on my rail before an NC Star.
I’d put NCstar glass on a rifle before tru-glo…but they both suck.
Pros? They’re cheap. Buy a couple ten of them.
Cons? They don’t work. Buy a few and replace as needed. Once you’ve spent the same amount of money as the glass they are a copy of proceed to kick yourself in the balls.
Start an optics jar, kind of like a cuss jar…
Just keep practicing with irons until you can get a decent optic, otherwise, it’s money wasted that you could have put towards something decent that will perform and last.
thanks and what would u guys suggest on optics for 100 meter shots?
You have two of them already–one’s mounted on each side of your nose. 
I bought 2 Mark III tacticals a couple of years back. One came with a canted reticle the other ones glass cracked at around 60 rounds of 7.62x39. They are trash. I stopped buying the cheap stuff. Lesson learned. Just save up and buy quality.
The 'ol Mk.1 Mod.0 Eyeball.
I am a little embarrassed to say that I made the mistake of impulse-buying an NCStar red dot at a gun show a year or two ago. This one:
http://www.ncstaroptics.com/NcStar%20Red%20Dot%20Sights.htm
It looked nice enough and touted multiple reticles, but only the single-dot reticle is really usable, and I suspect that changing reticles shifts zero anyway. It runs off a coin cell with very limited battery life, and changing the battery is ridiculously difficult due to the poor machining of the threads on the matchbox-car-metal battery cover and case, making it about 50 times more likely to crossthread than to screw on properly. It didn’t help that the battery cover is about a millimeter from the inner face of the glass, so the odds are high that you will scrape a nice uncoated spot into the glass as you fight the crossthreading (ask me how I know). And if I remember correctly, it’s too short to cowitness with an AR front sight (I seem to remember that the dot looks at the back of the front sight tower unless the optic is on a riser). At least I only wasted $42 on it.
Before that, I had a Tasco ProPoint from Wal-Mart (also made in China) that looked nice on the rail, but that’s about all it did well. The optical coating was lousy, such that glare sometimes made the optic unusable, it lost zero when removed and remounted, and the final straw was when pieces of antireflection paint INSIDE the optic peeled off and started bouncing around inside when the rifle was handled, eventually scratching the inside of the front lens pretty badly under recoil. And it ran off a coin cell as well.
I finally bit the bullet and bought an Eotech 516 ($439 from Bravo Company) and I wish I had done that to start with instead of wasting nearly a hundred bucks on the Tasco and NCStar. But live and learn…