Overall excellent optic, a little heavy and some quirks but great glass and reticle - Burris XTR II 1-5x24mm Rifle Scope

excellent LPVO option for your AR or other 223 rifle. glass is excellent with only very slight distortion around edges. making hits at 500 yards is easy with this optic. the reticle is very bright even in daylight. the only real downsides to the XTR II is the weight. it's a little chunky. in a heavy mount it gets ridiculous. if using for 3 gun you'll want a lightweight mount like the aero precision mount to go along with the XTR II. take note this XTR II is the 30mm tube. the other XTR models have a 34mm tube which is absurd for a LPVO. unless going for precisision long range and needing a lot of adjustment i will never understand the 34mm thing.

one other quirk is the illumination adjustment. while there are off positions in between settings if you leave them on these positions then to turn it back on you'll have to drop it back to off. so basically just keep it on the off position. it's not a big deal but sort of stupid design. it shouldn't deter one from owning this optic. be aware the eye relief is on the generous side, so much so that will need to use a recon type mount with as much forward positioning as possible. for me it's a neutral issue. i personally don't see why everyone likes such long eye relief on a 5.56/223 or even a 308. there isn't enough recoil to necessitate such a margin between eye and optic.

comparable (or perhaps better) options include the Steiner P4xi 1-4x or the Vortex PST Gen 2 1-6x. personally i would put the Burris and Steiner on similar level. the Steiner has better glass but the burris has better reticle. the vortex PST gen 2 is also nice but glass is a bit inferior in my humble opinion.