Reflector Scope

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I am going out on a hunting trip using a reflector scope for the first time.

I am impressed with this reflector sight that I bought from www.sportmansguide.com for US $ 69.-, and the fact that I can shoot with both eyes open since there is no magnification or paralax.

I find that the red dot reflector sight is superior to open iron sights, and perhaps scopes, especially during the game rich, dusk and dawn hunting, where I find that I have a hard time finding game through my peep sights, and especially if the game is moving fast.

This particular reflector or "holo" sight appears to project the four different sight options with seven brightness settings, in midair in front of me, even when I have both eyes open, and thus are going to help me in finding the target pretty fast under all hunting conditions, I hope :)
 
Well, it turned out to be a piece of s...

It's not rugged enough for hunting use, the reflector glass breaks to easily, and thus takes the red dot way out of alignment, and made me miss a nice elk at fifty yards. Hit the ground in front of the elk few times when the elk decided to break off the future relationship with my freezer.

Lucky I had the old faitful, scoped, Mauser action rifle along as a spare gun, with Accubond bullets, which, in no time collided with a nice white-tail buck.

No more fancy, battery operated, electronic sights on any of my guns for a while :shock:
 
Good point BIGREDD. The reflector scope worked fine at the target range, but after one day crawling around on the game trails in the mountains, there was a crack in one corner of the reflector glass. Clearly not enough protection for the reflector glass, since the weight of the rifle at times, unintentionally, rested on the thin metal around the reflector glass.

Spending more money at a better build reflector scope might solve the problem, but I am going to stay with scope's for now, since there is much more metal to protect the lenses, and most scopes have no problem carrying the weight of the rifle either.

A scope with a build in red dot might be a better idea for a demanding hunt.

After some serious stalking, I also blew my second chance to shoot an elk, when the elk's stood still in the dense forest, fiflty yards away, turned on the afterburners and went supersonic after hearing the "click" when I released the safety on my Parker-Hale. Thereafter, I stalked with my safety off, to no avail.

After comming home, I tested my other rifles safeties for noise when released, and found that my particular 7X57 Husquarna, Mauser action had the most quit safety release.

However, I had lots of action in a tree days hunt, and both me and my hunting partner shoot a white-tailed buck, but it would have been sweet to also to have a nice elk. Also seen several turkey family groups on the same short hunting trip, and for the first time seen a bearded Tom, but keept a good distance from a skunk :D

I still have to go for mulies, and perhaps my limited entry moose later on.
 
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