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Post by Squeeze on Mar 15, 2016 11:24:39 GMT -5
I need a few new scopes, I want another Leupold VX6 (haven't decided on 3-18 or 4-24 yet) but the reticles are the roadbump. I dont really want anything too cluttered. I hear both good and bad about the illuminated points. I dont have any scopes illuminated now. Is it a good thing? or just another thing to break and maintain? and get in the way of a nice fine crosshair. The gun will probably hunt, but will be used more for range fun i'm sure.
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Post by 153 on Mar 15, 2016 13:53:19 GMT -5
I have just purchased a Zeiss Victory HT 3-12x56 and a Meopta R2 1.7-10x42 both with illuminated reticles. Looking through both see no trouble with shooting paper with the illumination off. Also have two Burris Signature scopes, 3-9x40 and 1.5-6x32 both with the illuminated reticle/red dot. Both Burris over 15 years old and no trouble. Both Burris have no trouble sighting in. Just don't go cheap for a illuminated scope and you should be ok. I did have a Leopold VXIII 4.5x14 with illuminated reticle for about four years on a 270 with no trouble.
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Post by jims on Mar 15, 2016 17:48:12 GMT -5
I have some Weaver Classic Extremes with the illuminated dot. Good scopes especially for the money.
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Post by keith on Mar 15, 2016 19:03:57 GMT -5
I've never actually used the illumination on a scope except to test it.
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Post by 12ptdroptine on Mar 15, 2016 19:10:19 GMT -5
I have owned 4 illuminated scope's . ranging from $100 to $2100. Cheapest being a $100 Bushnell and most expensive being a Night Force. . The Bushnell was junk...way to busy...it had a rheostat but it was just WAY to much light in your eye...and looked like a radar grid. Next is a Simmons Pro Diamond...great little shotgun scope. I have had it for better than 10 years...and intend to keep it. Only the diamond and center crosshair lights up....great for throwing the diamond on the shoulder of a moving deer. Ant then a Leupold Firedot Really liked that scope illumination.... just didn't like the field of view...but that could be due to the 4x12. The next is the Night Force NXS 8X32X56 with the MOAR-T reticle. this illumination is only the very center little crosshair...and no external adjustment. This one is the best I have ever seen, just a nice glow amazing in the dark even. The MOAR reticle glows in its entirety...to much in my eye.. and very busy when illuminates. Bill describes it as "wash out" and it does. very few of the ones I have ever looked through could dim down far enough you could actually see past them. the FireDot was invisible when turned off and I believe it has 6 settings of brightness....really liked that one. But....I think the busier the reticle the more intense the illumination is going to be... even in my archery I like a single pin setup.
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Post by 247deer on Mar 15, 2016 19:13:39 GMT -5
I have the VX6 4-24x52 illuminated and I think it is a good thing to have some time near dark you can loose the cross hairs against a dark background
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Post by keith on Mar 15, 2016 19:38:41 GMT -5
I have owned 4 illuminated scope's . ranging from $100 to $2100. Cheapest being a $100 Bushnell and most expensive being a Night Force. . The Bushnell was junk...way to busy...it had a rheostat but it was just WAY to much light in your eye...and looked like a radar grid. Next is a Simmons Pro Diamond...great little shotgun scope. I have had it for better than 10 years...and intend to keep it. Only the diamond and center crosshair lights up....great for throwing the diamond on the shoulder of a moving deer. Ant then a Leupold Firedot Really liked that scope illumination.... just didn't like the field of view...but that could be due to the 4x12. The next is the Night Force NXS 8X32X56 with the MOAR-T reticle. this illumination is only the very center little crosshair...and no external adjustment. This one is the best I have ever seen, just a nice glow amazing in the dark even. The MOAR reticle glows in its entirety...to much in my eye.. and very busy when illuminates. Bill describes it as "wash out" and it does. very few of the ones I have ever looked through could dim down far enough you could actually see past them. the FireDot was invisible when turned off and I believe it has 6 settings of brightness....really liked that one. But....I think the busier the reticle the more intense the illumination is going to be... even in my archery I like a single pin setup. Drop You should have seen the H-59 in my F1 BEAST illuminated, it was bad in red or green. FFP illumination is almost always worse than SFP illumination. |
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Post by schunter on Mar 16, 2016 6:54:19 GMT -5
I had a Trijicon AccuPoint 5-20x50 with standard duplex and a center green dot. It was probably my favorite hunting scope for deer but not so much for range work.
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Post by keith on Mar 16, 2016 11:21:29 GMT -5
The Accupoint scopes are my favorite version of illuminated optics. I used on on my NULA M209 and on an AR for a while.
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Post by dannoboone on Mar 16, 2016 17:39:49 GMT -5
Perhaps it's my astigmatism, but any kind of light between my eye and a darkened
target only tends to make the target darker yet, and more difficult to see. Even on
the range in daylight, a lighted cross hair blurs the bull's eye. For my money, scopes
with "light gathering qualities" in which a darkened target can be seen better through the
scope than with the naked eye beats lighted cross hairs.
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Post by sagittarius on Mar 17, 2016 21:29:53 GMT -5
I like the illuminated reticle in Vortex scopes because their off and on dial.
Also like the lifetime warranty should you have any problem.
Very pleased with the one in my Razor Gen II
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