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Vince.......good post...a while back I posted a question comparing the red dot vs. the varizone scope...with a different response..... I have also heard that in low light...the reticle and crosshairs are impossible to see....When hunting with my red dot scope...I tried it at early morning, and late evening...there is no magnification...and the results were excellant....the scope does show exactly what the outside light conditions are. You need to keep both eyes open when aiming on a deer , but the target image is crisp and shot placement is precise. I really like my Simmons single red dot scope. It has 11 light settings.Vince wrote:In my opinion, if one can master shooting with both eyes open and if you understand how to use a Red Dot, absolutley nothing else on earth compares with the short shooting distances associated with archery.
I've gone from brass pins, fibre optic pins, tritinium (sp) pins, lighted pins, scopes of all kinds including the Xcal scopes and they all have the same short fall, they're useless during low light condition's because you can't see the pins or black reticule etc against the dark body of a deer/bear/moose.
And for those who want to argue this point, try this one:
Try finding your pin or black reticule x-hairs with the sun shining in your face and the target in the dark shadows of a hollow. It's impossible unless you have a RED DOT.
The idea of a RED DOT is not for better target acquistion or picking out a hair at 100 yards, if you want that, get a varmit scope.
The whole idea behind the RED DOT technology was for quick target acquistion on running game. The added bonus is quick target acquisition during low light conditions.
With a RED DOT, the illuminated spot is very quick and easily seen against a dark background.
Now, if you can see the deer with both eyes open, during those times of low light, shoulder the xbow and while focused on the deer, your peripheral vision will bring the illuminated dot into view and will give you a clearly visible aiming point.
Something you simply can't accomplish with pins and scopes of black reticules design....that's why they invented lighted scope reticules.
As far as battery life, i don't know how long the batteries last because my RED DOT gets turned 'on' the moment before i flick the safety to the 'fire' position and the batteries get changed at the beginning of each deer season.....i have a bunch of emergency batteries which are still good.
BTW, the season in this part of Ontario goes mid-Oct till the end of December and cold weather has never been a problem with batteries.
How much are these beauties? I have a nasty habit of leaving switches on now that I am in my dotage.I really like my Simmons single red dot scope. It has 11 light settings.
Thats cool Tye, where do you jack deer at night. I would think thats poaching.TYE wrote:Well, I shot my friends Horton with a red-dot on it, and I liked it because we were shooting at night, and I could easily see the red-dots to aim with. It was a bugger to see my fibre optic pins on my Pheonix.
Yeh TYE I think that's called POACHING as Digger stated....Digger wrote:Thats cool Tye, where do you jack deer at night. I would think thats poaching.TYE wrote:Well, I shot my friends Horton with a red-dot on it, and I liked it because we were shooting at night, and I could easily see the red-dots to aim with. It was a bugger to see my fibre optic pins on my Pheonix.
