Red Dot Sight Questions

[ky3820]

EO Tech

I love my EO Tech too, I have the XPS 2-2. It has a 5000 hour battery life with one 123 lithuim battery (on brightness setting 12). The 123 transvere positioned litimum battery allows the length of the sight to be reduced. The reticle consists of a 65 MOA ring at 200 yards with two red dots. The top dot is good for both 50 and 200 yards and the bottom is good for 500 yards each is rated at 2 MOA. Additionally, you can use the bottom rim of the ring for 7 yards. (The 65 MOA circle is designed to be the average height of a man at 200 yards) all of this for $429.00...

 

[cz85cmbt]

Red dots or reflex sights have three main points to that they can be judged by objectively, durability, clarity, and battery life. Clarity is the first and easiest. Lower end red dots tint their glass in order to get the dot to appear clearly on the glass. Higher end red dots use more complex system of angles and can use clear glass, the advantage to this in low light you can see better because the tint on less expensive red dots makes a dark situation darker. Durability is harder to research but with skanning of reviews and customer comments you can get a good idea, aimpoint and eo tech are the most bullet proof and proven from military tests. Lastly battery life is important and the higher up you go the better the battery life is (usually) some have automatic shutoffs when left on for long durations vortex is an example. Eo tech has ok battery life but aimpoint is where it is at with 50,000 hours of constant on time. Subjectively judged but important is the ability to acquire targets quickly, this will vary from person to person. All bushnells are tinted fairly dark, burris fast fires seem durable for an open top and fairly clear, tru glos are tinted but seem to hold up to recoil in many of their models, tru glos have lots of feed back because they are affordable and shotgun hunters use them extensively. Sorry it got so scattered, vortex might be worth a shot and eo tech and aimpoint are hard to go wrong with but are pricey.