Aimpoint Micro S1 Red Dot and Sporting Clays

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BrianWing

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Hello Sporting Clays Enthusiasts !
Has anybody tried shooting sporting clays with this red dot ?
How were your results ?
Did you find you started “aiming” rather than focusing on the target ?
Feed back is most welcome.
Have a great shoot !
 
Never tried it but I would think on hard rights and lefts you would lose sight of the target. Considering you have to lead every target to some degree I don't think it would work very well. I'm sure there's something on Youtube about it.
 
I have seen red dots, and holosights brought to skeet, and I have never seen anyone do well with them. The person using them always ends up aiming.
 
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I tried out a Spacegun with some sort of optical sight on it at the trap range some time ago, it was pretty weird at first but I think one could catch on to it in time. I’m highly sceptical about using a similar sight at sporting clays as you need a very wide field of view, hence the reason many shooters such as myself like to start with the gun down instead of mounted. When you call pull your focus is on the target and the gun naturally comes up to the shoulder and points exactly where you want it. In trap the target basically starts in the same place every time so you know where to pick it up but I have serious reservations that would be possible for sporting clays.
 
Watched both videos. Interesting but not something I can see myself using personally. To me it's the equivalent of when you see someone fishing with their rod upside down because the reel is on the wrong side for them instead of just changing the handle to the correct side. In other words, awkward. The specs are not impressive to me either with a 6 MOA dot. Weight isn't too bad but it is 3.5oz you need to fit along your rib somewhere and still hope to maintain a good balance and swing characteristic. To me it's better suited to the games where they shoot steel plates and blow up bowling pins or for handgun shooters in the course type games. Just my thoughts..
 
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I wonder about double targets on a sporting clays course which is something they didn't try in the second video. It seems to me that the red dot could hinder acquiring the second target on a set where the two targets are further apart than the field of view through the scope. If the shooter doesn't have time to break the first target then de mount the gun to acquire the second target then you could at least theoretically not even find the second target.
I also find a bright bead to be very distracting in that it draws my eye to it instead of the target. I've found that I don't do as well as I do with a brass bead or dull white bead and I think the red dot would be the same for me in fact George, despite still breaking the targets complained about the dot attracting his eye to it as well. I wouldn't mind trying out a red dot for fun but I don't think it would be for me.
 
Westward1 said:
I was interested in trying it out of curiosity. But the price tag put an end to that.
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I had an Aimpoint on a Ruger Mini 14 a few years back and it actually worked quite well on that. I can't recall the model off the top of my head but I could accurately hit gophers and coyotes out to 175- 200 yards with it. After that forget it. But that may have been more on me than the rifle and sight combo? It was definitely a good sight for a short range rifle setup.
 
A fellow shooter at the club put a red dot on an old beater Remington 1100. I never watched him shoot it at 5-stand as he was shooting his Beretta A400 Xcel 12 ga that day. Anyway after a round of 5-stand he offered me the opportunity to shoot the red dot equipped 1100. I fired 4 rounds with it, all hits as singles on some crossers and quartering steeply away targets we had set up. I found it amazingly easy to shoot...was expecting it would be way worse to use. Not sure if I hadn't just shot the same targets with my A400 Xcel that I'd have had the same results or not? As it has no magnification it didn't seem to interfere with acquiring the target. I'm a both eyes open, gun down shooter so it wasn't in my vision at all until I'd made the move and mount. And the red dot wasn't large or very bright. And no, I didn't rush out and buy a red dot, never had even fired a single round with one on a gun before or since that day a month ago.
 
I have a red dot on a 17hmr pack rifle, and it is great for coyotes to 150 yards or so, but with a shotgun, I prefer a small white bead, or a silver bead, so I don't look at the bead.
 
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