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Fire Dot Reticle: Yay or Nay
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I will be purchasing a new scope that is available with or without a Fire Dot Reticle.
Is the Fire Dot actually useful for hunting situations or not?
This would be on a big game rifle.
It will be used in the woods as well as the wide open spaces.
Is the Fire Dot actually useful for hunting situations or not?
This would be on a big game rifle.
It will be used in the woods as well as the wide open spaces.
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FWIW, I have a Burris 3x9 with the illuminated reticle, and LOVE it for low light conditions.
Luis
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I'll have to go along with you Fish. Many is a time I could have used an illuminated reticle on elk hunts when it was legal shooting time, but very overcast. I could clearly see the bulls antlers against the sky, but his body was blotted out by the gloom of the hillside. The intersection of the crosshairs were obscured by the darkness. An Illuminated reticle would have given me a precise aiming point, and a few nice 6x6's in the bag.
FWIW, having an illuminated reticle can mean the difference between taking a precise shot in low light conditions, or possibly having to pass on a shot because you cannot see your crosshairs well enough. This is assuming that you had enough light to know WHAT you're shooting at.
I haven't had a shot yet at deer or hogs where I needed the illuminated reticle, but have no doubt that given long enough, it will happen. I know I've chosen to pass up shots in the past where I couldn't see the crosshairs well enough to feel comfortable with the shot. If I had had an illuminated reticle, I think I can say I would have harvested a couple more animals in years past.
Luis
Yeah, like for me last hunting season. Late in the season I had a shot opportunity at a very nice buck. I shot at it at about 140 yards, but it was right almost to the end of legal shooting hours. I could see the deer just fine with my Leupold VX-1 4-12 x 40, but I couldn't see the cross hairs plainly. the fact that i missed that deer wasn't because of the light transfer or resolution of the scope. It was fine. It was because I couldn't see the reticle plainly and I shot too low. Well all that and he WAS walking away from me. If he'd stopped for a few seconds maybe I could have made out the reticle against the deer.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
I believe I will get it.
The Leupold scope I have in mind has it included in addition to a regular reticle. I can turn off/on just the lighted reticle whenever I want. It also has a standby mode where it will turn itself off when the gun has not moved for a while, and then turn back on when the gun is moved.
This would work well with me as my past experience with red dot type sights is that I never remember to turn them off, which results in an endless supply of dead batteries.
I agree with Paul, with one exception; when I set up my 1894 Marlin, in .44 magnum, to hunt hogs, I put a Pro-Point red dot scope, with a 4 MOA dot, on top. Hogs appear either at first light or at dusk, usually at a fairly close range, so that was a good choice, for me. The 4 MOA dot is bright enough to see, in low light, target acquisition is almost instant, there is no parallax, and you can keep both eyes open.......Robin
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