henschman
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While planning the optics setup for my soon-to-be purchased AR, I was thinking how I like a red dot with magnifier setup, but don't like how when shooting with the magnifier, you have very little in your sight picture that would be helpful with ranging or compensating for bullet drop. Sure the red dot is a certain number of MOA wide, but the edges are often indistinct and you get some "bloom."
I was thinking what a great setup it would be to have a red dot with a flip-to-side magnifier that contained a ranging or BDC reticle, ideally along the lines of an ACOG reticle, but would work fine with a mil, MOA, or even a plain old duplex reticle. The dot would then just take the place of the illuminated center aiming point, like in an illuminated scope reticle. Ideally it would need to be a magnifier that could be adjusted, so that the reticle lines up with the dot. But I was just wondering whether anyone makes a magnifier with a reticle.
I have seen the old Hensoldt rocket launcher sights that people rig up as magnifiers... that is along the lines of what I am talking about, but of course that reticle is for ranging tanks rather than man-sized targets, and wouldn't be too useful.
I was thinking what a great setup it would be to have a red dot with a flip-to-side magnifier that contained a ranging or BDC reticle, ideally along the lines of an ACOG reticle, but would work fine with a mil, MOA, or even a plain old duplex reticle. The dot would then just take the place of the illuminated center aiming point, like in an illuminated scope reticle. Ideally it would need to be a magnifier that could be adjusted, so that the reticle lines up with the dot. But I was just wondering whether anyone makes a magnifier with a reticle.
I have seen the old Hensoldt rocket launcher sights that people rig up as magnifiers... that is along the lines of what I am talking about, but of course that reticle is for ranging tanks rather than man-sized targets, and wouldn't be too useful.
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