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Post by TRTerror on Mar 10, 2024 12:30:47 GMT -5
Anyone have any experience with them ?
Looking for one for my Smoke Pole. Never tried one but my average shot is like 30 yards and Trijcon makes a 4 power fixed that looks like it will do the job.
What say you Professional Shooters..?
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Post by bullfrog on Mar 10, 2024 13:09:17 GMT -5
Anyone have any experience with them ? Looking for one for my Smoke Pole. Never tried one but my average shot is like 30 yards and Trijcon makes a 4 power fixed that looks like it will do the job. What say you Professional Shooters..? I use a mill-spec Aimpoint red dot and a mill-spec Eotech hologram. They’re reliable. Just not very useful for longer shots if you’re not otherwise checking your target with glass. I once shot a trophy buck with the Eotech I thought was a coyote in the twilight. My eyes can’t handle no magnification anymore. I think those sort of sights make more sense on shotguns or other close range weapons. Currently my Eotech is on a home defense 12 gauge and my Aimpoint is a backup sight for my home defense AR. But with the Aimpoint I have a 4x magnifier that flips away. My wife killed her first deer with that setup. |
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Post by pinman on Mar 10, 2024 18:30:41 GMT -5
Murphys Law says you put a red dot on and the next buck will be out at 90 yards....Ifn I was shootin Deer mostly at 30 yards on a regular basis Id probably be looking at a smokepole shotgun....would certainly lay em down.....might even be comparable price to a good red dot sight...
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Post by richm on Mar 11, 2024 7:50:40 GMT -5
I've got a couple red dot scopes and love them. Bushnell was making nice ones a while back.
Had on 30-30, 357 mag rifle, .22s...
Currently have one on 357 mag rifle and shoot it to 100 yards no problem. I like the 2.5 or 5 inch dots better than the 1 inch dots - easier to see.
The red dots typically have zero magnification but that's not a big deal. The dots are sized for 100 yds - so a 5-inch dot is 5 inches at 100 yds.
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Post by meateater on Mar 11, 2024 9:13:15 GMT -5
only got 1, dont remember the brand but it was expensive. i got it on a t/c contender 243 single shot pistol and it works great inside 100 yds.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Mar 14, 2024 23:07:01 GMT -5
I had a Tasco (I think) red dot scope 40 years ago on a Colt AR. We were living on a farm in Iowa and my shepherd used to wander. One night she was barking crazy and I looked out across the cornfield in front of our house. The corn was down, recently picked, and she was racing across the field on an angle trying to get home with 4 coyotes chasing her. I grabbed the AR and touched the button on the scope. It was kind of a moonlit night and that scope was light gathering. I picked off the second coyote behind her because I couldn’t get a clear shot at the one directly behind her. With the shot the coyote behind her veered off and I nailed it with a second shot. She was clear and ran the rest of the way to me. The other coyotes seemed to vanish.
Anyway the shots were more than a hundred yards away on the run at night. That scope was absolutely incredible. I gave that rifle and scope to a friend that just lost a fight for the cruiser weight championship of the world to a guy named Daniels around 1991. It snapped him out of the depression he was in from the loss. He shot it for years and swore it was the best scope and rifle combination he ever shot.
So bottom line is I really like the old red dot scopes.
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