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Canted is better to shoot but harder to live with since it snags on everything and complicates things like setting it down on a table. Also makes off handed shooting weird.
Over the optic doesn't do that stuff but you only get a chin weld so lock it into your shoulder as best as you can and it should be reasonably accurate for red dot ranges.
I was looking to get other opinions as I've always preferred straightline, as I don't have to adjust how I hold a rifle to switch between optics. A simple head movement has struck me as more efficient (if less dramatic) than canting the rifle back and forth. With intermediate calibers and a red dot, cheekweld has never been a major issue for me. A red dot on another optic is close to the height of a carry handle mounted optic and those have always worked fine.
So I got to screw around with a TA02 ACOG with the forward mounted rmr dot on top and I was actually able to use it by canting the rifle. Let's see if I can explain it in a way that makes sense!
Looking down the acog with my right eye as usual. If I want to switch to the dot I can cant the rifle so the optic rotates slightly towards my left eye. The red dot on the top of the ACOG goes from over top of my right eye and pivots down to meet my left. Now I am aiming using my left eye and the dot without moving my cheek from the stock/buffer.
Now this makes things real weird when it comes to understanding your zero and general ballistics but it's an option if I am going back and forth between acog and red dot quickly. But I have not messed with it enough to say if I actually LIKE that method