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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rancid Coolaid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/14/2017 at 09:45
Originally posted by Whale Whale wrote:

Might have to purchase both the green and yellow dots and see for myself at night.

My issue with the dot reticle - a mil dot reticle in the 5-20, specifically - was that the reticle was very, very thick.  The dot presented a great fine targeting ability, but the reticle thickness was way too thick for me.  This was the 5-20, I haven't seen the dot in the 3-9 or 2.5-10.

I am a fan of the post and triangle reticle, it is quick on target and the triangle is larger - so dimmer - as an aiming point.  As I understand it, the tritium volume is the same for all their riflescopes, so the larger the illuminated portion, the dimmer the illuminated portion.

Get them both, tell us what you think.  And, if the conversation on preferred color tells you anything, it should be clear that all eyes see things just a bit differently.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote gdpolk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August/15/2017 at 22:21
My pig gun, a Marlin 336 in .30-30, wears a VX3 2.5-8x36.  Dark thirty to dark thirty it gets the job done well.  After dark a nice thermal vision would be my next step up.  A glowing dot doesn't mean much if the woods don't have enough light for the optics to transmit the image of the animal to the eye.

As for the 2.5-8, its small, light, tough, bright enough to go +/- 30 minutes in heavy timber, has a wide field of view for the close shots, and plenty of zoom at the range for accuracy testing.  It's kind of hard to not like.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Whale Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February/08/2018 at 21:14
Sorry for not reporting back earlier. Looked at the 2.5-10x56 with green and yellow dots. Scope was heavy and I did not see the dots as well as I thought I could. Ended up purchasing the 3-9x40 with the red triangle post. It allowed me to acquire the target faster or I thought it did.
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Here in merry old Europe we tend to go for pigs at dusk / night under the moon. The most popular scope for that is something like a fixed 8x56 with a No 4 Reticle and an illuminate centre dot.

This will work well from a tree stand. Might not work so well if chasing pigs through dense scrub.

The set up I went for on my "piggy rifle" is 2 scopes in a QR type mount

1: Swaro 8x56, No 4 ret with illuminated centre dot - tree stand work
2: Aimpoint with no mag for driven, pushing, scrub stalking

Some people have decided that something like the S&B1.5-6x42 is hard to beat and you can see why if you want one scope as a do all.

Whatever you choose, happy hunting!



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We hunt hogs 3 or 4 times a month in central Texas. I normally use a Sig 716 running Hornady SP 165 gr. SST topped with a Leupold VX-R 3-9×50 on the moonlit nights (1st-3rd qtr) On the darker nights I use a Scar Heavy with the same ammo and topped with a Trijcon ACOG TA11J-308G. Both optics get the job done with the ACOG being the quicker of the two.
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