Thread: Red dot for hunting

So following on from this, I pulled the 3-9 ultralight off my kimber .308, and decided to get a new red dot.
I had the aimpoint H1 in the past but never really liked it as I couldn’t shoot tight groups with it.
Ended up with a Trijicon RMR 3.25moa, tiny little thing. Got a rail from @Sarvo and put the three pieces together
Pulled the rifle up to the shoulder and the dot was bang on in terms of location in the lens. I thought the suppressor might take up a bit of the view but it’s not even visible when aiming.
The rail had obscured the top off the receiver a fair bit, and as the Montana is a blind mag this would be a pain in the ass.
So I pulled the rail off and got the grinder out to chop it up, milled the end true then painted it.
Now the action is nice and clear and it can be carried comfortably just behind the sight.
Changing the sight height in ‘shooter’ aswell as the zero range told me I needed to be .5” low at 25yards for a 200yard zero, so I bore sighted it and fired three shots to get it close enough.

Then I went out to 200yards and fired three shots, they all rung the gong so after walking over to have a look, I fired three more shots in quick succession. Fairly happy with that.
I adjusted the sight 1moa down and went to 300yards, which is the fourth shot high and left. So as it stands I’d happily line up on a deer inside 200yards, and with a bit of practice, maybe out to 300. But for now I reckon that’s not bad accuracy for having fired a total of ten rounds.