Mystery of: Co-Witnessing Magnifiers

[MiddTennTaco]

What is the BIG deal?

Are there no standard listed heights for iron sights, red dots, and magnifiers? I realize that Aimpoint and Eotech both make proprietary magnifiers for the respective sight systems, however, I am not willing to shell out another $500. Even then, compatibility and co-witnessing with iron sights are not guaranteed nor heights advertised.

If I were to start a business, I would sell an economical flip mounted magnifier with multiple risers to cowitness multiple height requirements of different sighting systems. It appears to me that at this time, no such thing fills this likely highly desired niche.

Anyway, rant over... Does anyone know of any good cost efficient flip-mounts, flipmount/magnifer combos, risers that would line up correctly with a Aimpoint Pro with riser removed? (Without the riser, its really low hugging the rails)

[bigwakes]

I have a Mako 4x magnifier and it co-witnesses nicely with the eotech 512, but not the 1/3 co-witness scopes like the 516 and 517.

[MiddTennTaco]

I don't think Aimpoints and EoTechs are the same height.

[Schadenfreude]

There are different heights for both, I have one of each that r exactly the same but you can get different. I prefer absolute & the cheap mako mount is the correct height for that.