Who is running the micro red dots on their doubles?

[Backyardsniper]

I just added a trijicon RMR to my Krieghoff and I was absolutely amazed at the difference it made. My rifle has the fiber optic sight and it was LARGE, I swapped the fiber insert for a smaller one and it was better, but not great. I realize they are made for fast acquisition at close range. I went with 3.25 moa dot, which turned out to be about perfect. You can dim it and make it appear smaller for longer range work. I covers roughly a tennis ball at 100 yards. You can keep it.brighter for fast up close work. It has greatly improved my precision work with the 470. I used a trijicon RM 58 base, I believe it was.. It clamps perfectly on the rear block where the back of the Recknagel scope bas clamps. Here is a 6 shot group with 4 Barnes tsx and then an added pair of CEB Raptors that shot inside the two left barrel shots from the TSX. That was off stick at 35 yards and I fired another pair at 50 yards with the CEB that also stayed inside the sticker. Next trip I will be testing it out at 75 and 100 yards.

 

[BnC 04]

I had the same one on mine and used it on 4 buff hunts. Worked great but for me personally it felt unnatural. My Heym fits me perfect so that when shouldered i have a perfect sight picture using the iron sights but then i would have to lift my head up to aquire the red dot. Like i said it works great but i took the rmr off and sold it. Straight irons for me here on out.
Great looking groupings...

 

[Backyardsniper]

The TSX load was right out of the barnes manual. 107 grains of RL 25 and the bullet crimped in the front groove. I have not chronographed this load yet though, the h1000 load I tried from the barnes manual only gave me 1775 fps, so this one may be a little anemic as well, although the recoil was about on par with my regular loads. Worst case it will make a great practice/white tail load. Might even use it while calling coyotes this winter. The CEB was 110 grains of RL 22 and it is clocking in right around 2100fps. I think it is slightly crossing at 50 yards, I will know more once I shoot it at 100. If it is not any wider than 3"at 100 yards though I'm gonna runnit anyway, crossing or not. I will also be testing the 500gr CEB solid with RL 22. I have done a little preliminary testing with it and it looks good. I have a good load for it with H4350 but I am using a backer rod and I want to get away from that if possible. I have some N170 to try with the TSX as well. I'm trying to track down more reloader 22 as well as IMR 4831. I will say the red dot has really increased fun with the double, it was a lot of fun without it, but speed shooting double taps with that red dot is just all kinds of fun. I plan to employ stationary sporting clays at different distances for training sessions. I figure if you can hit a sporting clay off hand then you should be able to brain an elephant or center punch a buffalo.

 

[Backyardsniper]

I had the same one on mine and used it on 4 buff hunts. Worked great but for me personally it felt unnatural. My Heym fits me perfect so that when shouldered i have a perfect sight picture using the iron sights but then i would have to lift my head up to aquire the red dot. Like i said it works great but i took the rmr off and sold it. Straight irons for me here on out.

I plan to practice both, I do love the iron sights, my rifle may not fit me quite as well as yours does for you, which may be the reason this red dot lines up well for me. I still want to be super proficient with the iron sights in the event that I decide/need to use them. I may very well use them for my elephant, not sure yet, it will depend on how my shooting looks while practicing with them. If I get to the point I can consistently hit a sporting clay off hand from 25-35 yards with the irons then I will feel pretty confident with them.

 

[Tanks]

I run a 1 MOA Trijicon on my Heym .500 NE. So far has accounted for 2 elephants and 2 buffalo, furthest on buffalo being about 60 meters.

 

[Backyardsniper]

I run a 1 MOA Trijicon on my Heym .500 NE. So far has accounted for 2 elephants and 2 buffalo, furthest on buffalo being about 60 meters.

I actually had planned to buy the 1 moa, however I went to the LGS and the smallest they had was a 3.25, which after I looked at it, I thought was not as big as I had worried it would be. They had 1 MOA units in stock at Midway. The LGS is ran by a friend of mine, so 3500 primers and an 8lb keg of CFE 223 and $150 I had the RMR and a 1lb jug of N170. You know how that stuff goes. The best part was peeling the $30 price tags off the boxes of primers from the same store that I traded them back to for a good bit more than $ 30 each. It was some random odd and end small rifle primers that didn't match up with the rest of my primers anyway.

 

[igotit]

Just curious if anyone has used the humble Bushnell TRS 25 red dot on a 12 gauge, and if it held up / held 0 okay?

 

[bill73]

If you want quick & fast? no better choice then a red dot sight,all my DR's wear the now discontinued Dokter sights.