Thread: Red dots pros and cons

I'm interested to hear your experience with the
Red dot? Pros and cons?
Bush hunting and target identification
Effective range?
Have you gone back to a scope
Types of rifles you run them on.
General experience.

most common mistake is people rank up the brightness at dusk and dawn, your pupil contacts and the target is harder to see.
good on short range, fast moving targets but useless on shotguns unless you are shooting slugs.

Ran one on an ar, effective to 250 m on animal size targets without the doubler, can shoot both eyes open, ideal for snap shooting and moving targets. Have it on a 10/22 now and it does bunnies and possums just fine.

Bought an Aimpoint years ago when they were the best part of $1000, still got it but broken, best unit ever on a .375 Win lever gun for stags in heavy bush...shot a sika stag two hours after chopper landed with it...shot many since. You can hold dot on animal with your peripheral vision while searching straight ahead...had this happen once when younger stag approached me from the side while I was looking for another stag straight ahead, put the dot on him and kept looking ahead, as soon as he spotted me I decked him. Moving from clearing to bush, light to dark and back again one needs to continually keep rotating intensity of dot. On a pump shotgun shooting possums, nothing is as quick to drop them from a perch.

i had a leupold cqb on my ar, its a dot, crosshair, circle reticle. gave the best of all worlds. no longer have a use for it

Originally Posted by gonetropo

i had a leupold cqb on my ar, its a dot, crosshair, circle reticle. gave the best of all worlds. no longer have a use for it

Did you end up selling it?


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or etched illuminated reticle so no power and you still have sights

They suck if you have asitgmatism. The dot becomes a smear.

tried them and I want/need more magnification
very happy with VXRs

Originally Posted by Bill999

tried them and I want/need more magnification
very happy with VXRs

Can you still get VXRs? Had a quick look on Leupold site and couldn't find any info.

Originally Posted by Bobba

Can you still get VXRs? Had a quick look on Leupold site and couldn't find any info.

@Bobba they are discontinued but there are still a few for sale. I actually asked Leupold about two weeks ago about this and they said some new Leupold scopes are coming out that "may" replace them but they wouldn't elaborate.

I suspect there is a new line coming out possibly that replaces what the VX-R was.

Originally Posted by 308mate

@Bobba they are discontinued but there are still a few for sale. I actually asked Leupold about two weeks ago about this and they said some new Leupold scopes are coming out that "may" replace them but they wouldn't elaborate.

I suspect there is a new line coming out possibly that replaces what the VX-R was.

Great Scopes !!
I may change mine "if" the Steiner I have coming next week has more + in the Dioptre
The VX.R 1.25-4 x 20 is best setup I have ever owned to date - just need a smidgen more +

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Great Scopes !!
I may change mine "if" the Steiner I have coming next week has more + in the Dioptre
The VX.R 1.25-4 x 20 is best setup I have ever owned to date - just need a smidgen more +

@Sarvo have you used the VX-5HD 1-5 firedot? supposed to be pretty good I think.

Originally Posted by Bobba

Can you still get VXRs? Had a quick look on Leupold site and couldn't find any info.

I can't see why not, I buy all mine second hand tho

They're pretty useless on anything other than a semi.

You get parallax issues on the traditional style stocks you normally use on a hunting rifle.