Red Dot magnifier.

[LostintheOzone]

Not being an AR shooter someone please explain to me what a 1X holographic sight is good for past 100 yards. For me, it takes the place of irons. I have a military carbine, not an AR, and all it has is iron sights. I can generally do a fair job with it at 100 yards, everything on a pie plate. I shoot with lots of people using AR's and that seems to be about the same level of accuracy from a 1x holographic. Maybe a little better but my eyes are old.

So my question is... are irons not as effective at 100 yards as a red dot? I know, it takes some practice to shoot irons but it's a well known fact that some in the military could use irons effectively out to 500 yards on an 03A3 way back when.

I've always used a telescopic sight for anything past 100 yards. To me, a red dot is just a more convenient faster ghost ring and not much more.

Please correct me if I have lost touch with reality or technology.

 

[cyphertext]

A red dot is faster than irons. No need for a perfect cheek weld, no need to align the front and rear sight, no need for a perfect sight picture... If you can see the dot, that is where it is going to hit, no matter where the dot is located in the sight picture.

 

[Targets Guy]

Thanks for all the advice. I apologize if my post has irritated some, by the responses I am apparently an idiot, maybe, but coming to a forum for "help" was I guess not the right thing to do. I didn't read the fine print about only professionals being able to post here and ask stupid questions! I'm sorry I took apace from another who probably had a smarter question to ask. out!


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I feel your pain. I have pretty much stopped using this forum for help due to the "experts" attitudes.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Not being an AR shooter someone please explain to me what a 1X holographic sight is good for past 100 yards. For me, it takes the place of irons. I have a military carbine, not an AR, and all it has is iron sights. I can generally do a fair job with it at 100 yards, everything on a pie plate. I shoot with lots of people using AR's and that seems to be about the same level of accuracy from a 1x holographic. Maybe a little better but my eyes are old.

So my question is... are irons not as effective at 100 yards as a red dot? I know, it takes some practice to shoot irons but it's a well known fact that some in the military could use irons effectively out to 500 yards on an 03A3 way back when.

I've always used a telescopic sight for anything past 100 yards. To me, a red dot is just a more convenient faster ghost ring and not much more.

Please correct me if I have lost touch with reality or technology.

I use a simple 1x red dot on my AR for offhand shooting out to 200yds which is getting close to what the ballistics will accommodate for point and click shooting absent holdover with a 50yd zero. I'm not interested in precision shooting, but rather that I can put lead on target and hear that steel ring.

Unlike irons, the 1x red dot doesn't require the shooter to be aligned with front and rear sights. As long as the shooter can see the red dot it's on target. Fast.

Personally, the biggest advantage of a 1x red dot is that all I have to do is keep focused down range and the red dot will display on target. My aged eyes struggle with irons. If I was 18 again... well... sigh...

 

[sgtsandman]

A red dot also helps with low light conditions that would make iron sights difficult or impossible to see.


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Want to add a magnifier for my red dot, any suggestions under $100.00?


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