[Zack The Ripper]

Magnified optics have their place.

Outdoor play can be done mostly with dot sights, however if you have bad eye sight or want to take a long range recon role a short dot is a good piece to use. Being able to swap between a 1x to 4x in a jiffy is a handy tool to have.

Keep in mind eye relief and that even on 1x you will still deal with eye relief on a short dot. This means snap shooting will not be as easy. However, you can find great short dots with 5" eye relief in many places these days.

Magnifiers ALL have terrible eye relief, even quality AimPoint and EOTech magnifiers input have a little over 3" of eye relief. That's as good as it gets with them.

You could get a Leupold HAMR, but you won't be able to buy much of anything else for awhile.