Optics for rugged bush use

wannabe

wannabe

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I've hunted for 40 plus years and currently I run a quad on ROUGH trails...winching and rolling happen...also nasty branches have flipped my brushguns out of the rack and into whatever tree or rock is closest. I broke a crosshair in a fixed power leupold once but that was a bit of a one off. The weather often -20 or worse and sometimes rains for days...Remington 870 wooden fore stocks can swell and tie up your gun as I found out...somethimes my rifles swim (ok sink) when I flip a canoe and get dragged out by the attached safety rope....anyway my point...as I get older my eyes are not as fast with iron sights as I like. I have a hard time trusting even good tough low powered conventional scopes....for the most part my guns are used for 50 yards and under, bear protection BFB and an 870 or marlin GBL have been used...I currently use "ghost ring" sights. I am looking for opinions on red dots/prism scopes/visible laser??? I really don't know...I have used aimpoints and eo-techs on ranges but wonder about mud and snow and cold and smashing around...I have found alkaline batteries crap out so I'm thinking lithiums would be best...would love it if I could get a sight that would take a standard aaa or aa if needed...

Asking you guys what your opinions are considering my circumstances...oh yeah I'm not rich...my quad is a 1991 honda lol
 
Well I use an AR180b for my farm, bush coyote gun and don’t baby it in all weather and have settled on and used the Elcan C79 4X scope since the mid 2000s. It’s a bit bulky but rubber coated, large light gathering lenses, battle proven, tritium lite triangle point retical and works great out in the open and I seldom shoot over 100 yards. And when in the bush and cedars where the light gets low the tritium retical and big lenses make it easy to spot a coyote scoping me in trees and bush. I was able to recently replace the tritium myself and purge it successfully for the cost of a hundred bucks thanks to another member here who made an do offered tritium replacement vials in printed holders. If you keep an eye out you can sometimes find an older one with burned out tritium for 4 to 600 bucks but there’s cheaper illuminated Bushnell designated marksman 1 X 4 scopes with lifetime warranties for approx $300 that are pretty tough and would do the job and have the fast throw ring on them which I’m tempted to try which would be a lot lighter and less bulky. —Dieseldog!
 
I'd go Aimpoint. Pricey, but tough as nails and tens of thousands of hours of continuous battery life.
 
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