You made the right decision. Red Dots are very limiting for anything other than close up work. Also with no magnification, once it's dusk dark, you will see the dot but not what's behind it.
I have Micro h2 on the top of my 9.3. My first intention was to use it as a boar brush gun,as I was sick of crawling around with 26" 300wm. I zeroed aimpoint 1" high at 50 meters just in case if I have to take a longer shot when hunting one partucular area. It shoots POA at 140 (I would say). 2 months ago took it on roe buck stalk,shot buck at 152 meters,bullet hit where I was holding the dot,i did had a slightly angled shot. But no way I could tell if its doe or buck without magnification. Father had to double check it with binocular to be 100% sure its a buck. Buck was moving away and all i could see was his white patch,and piece of back. I had no much time left,no place to rest the rifle on so I stood up,cranked down the dot from 11 to level 6 and send the shot. Buck went down. I would never do it again,but Id say red dot works up to 100 better than scope. And FOR ME it works much better on moving game in thick cover,than any scope. I would take scope past 150 m any day.
Here is the buck and place I took the shot from.
Bullet entrance wound at the tail,exit all the way on the chests.
Shot taken from the same place as this photo. Buck was on the far edge of the forest clearance you can see in front.
