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Illuminated crosshairs

  • 22-03-2010 10:19pm
    #1
    lefthooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads. Been looking at a few scopes. Is it worth paying the extra few pounds when spending & buying a scope with IR? In what situations wud u benefit from having it?


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  • #2
    foxshooter243
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭foxshooter243


    lefthooker wrote: »
    Hi lads. Been looking at a few scopes. Is it worth paying the extra few pounds when spending & buying a scope with IR? In what situations wud u benefit from having it?

    Im not a big fan of them, they can be handy between the lights of if you are lamping at night and the scope has a fine reticle, but I much prefer to use a thicker type of reticle for night work and a fine one for day work, my dedicated lamping rifle has a tds reticle and it can easily be seen at night, its all down to personal preference, I like to keep things very simple for lamping and an illuminated reticle to me is just another bit of fidlling.


  • #3
    sikastag
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    +1 foxshooter


  • #4
    lefthooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭lefthooker


    Can't help agreeing wit u foxshooter. No problems seeing my reticle when lamping, not a big fan of ultra fine crosshairs either tho. Had a dealer trying to convince me that IR was something I really needed to have. I felt the look of a big rheostat drum stuck on your eye bell took away from what was a decent scope..
    Horses for courses you cud call it


  • #5
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    lefthooker wrote: »
    Can't help agreeing wit u foxshooter. No problems seeing my reticle when lamping, not a big fan of ultra fine crosshairs either tho. Had a dealer trying to convince me that IR was something I really needed to have. I felt the look of a big rheostat drum stuck on your eye bell took away from what was a decent scope..
    Horses for courses you cud call it

    I had a Nikon 2.5-10x56 scope. See an animal in a field in black dark.
    However only at low mag.
    I can crank my nightforce up mag and the illum ret is fine but clear. hence better shot placement.
    But yes, Horses for courses.
    Zeiss Divari is IMHO the best low light scope on the market.
    But toooooooooooooo pricey for me.
    So the nightforce is the scope for me

    http://www.zeiss.de/C1256BCF0020BE5F/Contents-Frame/C9071D7CB7C8438E85256DBF004B39ED


  • #6
    jwshooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    i have a nightforce nxs for a few years now.

    it has been used a lot at nite ,i have only turned on the illumination once . it was to shoot a hind late eve ,but it was a experiment .i would put the money into better glass .


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  • #7
    Vegeta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    lefthooker wrote: »
    In what situations wud u benefit from having it?

    At night under a lamp with a fine reticle


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