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are these very good in day time use
I'm happy with mine
any one used one
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Depends on the quality of the sight and the quality of your eyes...
Most have variable power so can be turned up in daytime. Your gucci red dot sights will automatically adjust brightness. Cheaper ones will have a tendency to 'bloom' when turned right up. A very bright summers day will show the difference between the cheap and the decent ones.
They don't suit all eyes. I wear prescription glasses and if I'm not wearing them then the dot is smeared all over the place. OK with glasses on though.
To an extent you get what you pay for with these, but there are also diminishing returns. Don't bother buying one cheaper than 20 quid, but for airgun use there's no point buying a £350 one IMO.
Good for garden plinking and fast fire, perhaps hunting at close and/or fixed ranges, but bear in mind that you have no magnification or, in most cases, any extra aim points for holdover/under. I wouldn't put one on a serious rifle. Good for pistols and things like the crosman ratcatcher though.
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I have a vortex red dot. Think it's 2 or 3moa and was about £150. Been really impressed with it really. I took it round an HFT course on one of my springers for a real test. Up to 25 yards I was knocking down everything, really easy to use, no parallax issues etc.
But as soon as you got beyond 30y the size of the dot is too large to use in a precise way. I knocked a couple of long range targets done but it was guesswork.
Also had a cheap 5moa hawke one that was junk in comparison. Turn up the brightness to anything usable and the dot bloomed to about 10moa or more
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Just looked back and actually I shot it on a s400 for HFT. Scored 48 with no misses. Not a bad score actually!
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Was that the 'Sport Dot' by any chance? One of the worst on the market IMO!Originally Posted by cooper_dan
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I remember one from when I was a kid.
I saw it once at a game fair and never saw it again.
It was scope sized and you used it with both eyes open.
The end was like a fake candle.
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I'm with this and had the same experience, I only use mine on pistols mind, but a pistol HFT curse with 20m max spinners is easily achievable
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I remember a green dot showing up better in the day than red, some have both.
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One of these? https://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread...ht=singlepointI remember one from when I was a kid.
I saw it once at a game fair and never saw it again.
It was scope sized and you used it with both eyes open.
The end was like a fake candle.
Modern red dots can be used both eyes open or one eye closed. Both eyes closed doesn't work too well though.
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It wasn't exactly that one but very similer.
You couldn't actually see through the scope.
It just projected the dot and you saw it on the target with the other eye open.
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Someone had one of these for sale at Kempton a few years ago, I was stood there squinting and blinking for 5 minutes before the seller gently explained how it worked
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after looking through one today not for me thanks for comments
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