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Best place for a red dot on a PRS CRPS or NRL rifle
- Thread starter Maple57
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It's a really good idea ! I had one mounted like that on my S-64 on top of a Vortex 3-9x40 @ 10 o'clock. Due to the 'accuracy' of the 64, I took away the scope and just have the reflex-dot. Under 1" @ 25yds - 1.5-2" @ 50 - good for an old 64 and old eyes.
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The issue with mounting it there is that you'll find on certain props that it gets hung up, especially in narrow ports or something where you have to get the left side of the rifle jammed up against a horizontal surface.
I've run red dots on all my precision rifles for a few years now and it definitely gets you on target faster. I mount them at about the 1:30 on a ring cap. My justification for doing so is that you keep the lowest possible profile (vs a 12:00 mount which makes your scope "taller"). I don't cant the rifle to get behind the red dot though. I keep the primary optic plumb, dial on my 600ish yard dope (for most short action calibers) aim at a target at 600ish yards and then co-align the red dot to the primary optic's reticle. In that way, if I put the dot on the target between about 200-1200 the target will be in the FOV of the primary optic when I drop down behind it. That being said, I generally shoot around 13x for positional and maybe 16x prone (unless zeroing or shooting at a really tiny target) as I find the added FOV helpful to not "tunnel" on target as well as for self-spotting trace.
I've run red dots on all my precision rifles for a few years now and it definitely gets you on target faster. I mount them at about the 1:30 on a ring cap. My justification for doing so is that you keep the lowest possible profile (vs a 12:00 mount which makes your scope "taller"). I don't cant the rifle to get behind the red dot though. I keep the primary optic plumb, dial on my 600ish yard dope (for most short action calibers) aim at a target at 600ish yards and then co-align the red dot to the primary optic's reticle. In that way, if I put the dot on the target between about 200-1200 the target will be in the FOV of the primary optic when I drop down behind it. That being said, I generally shoot around 13x for positional and maybe 16x prone (unless zeroing or shooting at a really tiny target) as I find the added FOV helpful to not "tunnel" on target as well as for self-spotting trace.
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Jerry
Jerry
I thought about that Dave, but in 4 years of using it, I have never shot a stage where it would not fit. Not to say there isn't a situation that would create such a problem, but its pretty rare if there is.
Hey, if it works for you, it works. I can definitely think of situations on stages that Ive shot that at the least, you wouldn't be able to use the dot (including every weak side stage) and plenty where it would get hung up.
