I'm thinking of going back to an etched reticule for my AR since I mostly use it for hunting hogs anyways. I'd like to do a 3-gun with it at least once, or a carbine course maybe once (just for the experience), but its primary use is to kill hogs (and possibly deer in my son's hands).
Illuminated is nice, but I don't know that I want a holographic sight anymore. I like my EOTech, but its heavy and while the reticule was the biggest reason that I went to it over the Aimpoint - I don't know that the reticule is that effective at measuring for distance shots since its just a fuzzy piece of holographic light. I've tried to use it for hold-overs based on its measurements, but its just not sharp enough of a reticule to get exactly right no matter what brightness setting I use (or maybe its my eyes).
I was thinking of going over to an Aimpoint Comp ML3, but its non-magnified and just a dot, so no range-finding in the reticule (on the off-chance that I need to take a longer shot) is out and magnification for both this one and the EOTech are a pain (weight, cost, etc...).
I rarely see a hog more than 50yds away, so a non-magnified reticule has served me well, but I find myself more and more doing long-distance hiking when I hunt and it gets to where I want to grab the AR over my bolt-gun due to weight even for deer or coyotes (which tend to stay farther away from me than Hogs).
I don't have a problem deer hunting with it as I'm not the type to take a rushed shot and I'm typically using 75gr high-quality rounds so with even decent shot-placement, everything I've ever shot at has died quickly.
I was looking at going with a Leupold VX-I 1-4 Shotgun scope (or similar scope - the scout scope, the Mark AR, etc... are all pretty similar weight wise) on Optics Planet's Leupold Custom shop and changing the reticule to get either a Special Purpose, Mil-Dot, or Varmint Hunter just to give me enough of a reticule to take a 200yd shot (max I'd probably try to take when hunting with an AR is 200-250yds).
That reticule is expensive though, and I wonder if its worth it or should I just go with a duplex and adjust the knobs if I need to take a longer shot. I figure it would do well in the same type of scout mount that the Millet DMS-1 fits in, but I'd probably just do rings for now to keep the weight down.
I'm actually thinking of ditching Irons if I go this route, but I've honestly thought about going entirely the opposite way and ditching optics altogether to go with a light-weight setup of just irons. Problem is that I get no magnification that route and my eyes aren't getting any better as i get older so I'd probably be killing the possibility of any longer range shots at that point.
I don't know - just tossing this out there for conversation's sake I guess.
Illuminated is nice, but I don't know that I want a holographic sight anymore. I like my EOTech, but its heavy and while the reticule was the biggest reason that I went to it over the Aimpoint - I don't know that the reticule is that effective at measuring for distance shots since its just a fuzzy piece of holographic light. I've tried to use it for hold-overs based on its measurements, but its just not sharp enough of a reticule to get exactly right no matter what brightness setting I use (or maybe its my eyes).
I was thinking of going over to an Aimpoint Comp ML3, but its non-magnified and just a dot, so no range-finding in the reticule (on the off-chance that I need to take a longer shot) is out and magnification for both this one and the EOTech are a pain (weight, cost, etc...).
I rarely see a hog more than 50yds away, so a non-magnified reticule has served me well, but I find myself more and more doing long-distance hiking when I hunt and it gets to where I want to grab the AR over my bolt-gun due to weight even for deer or coyotes (which tend to stay farther away from me than Hogs).
I don't have a problem deer hunting with it as I'm not the type to take a rushed shot and I'm typically using 75gr high-quality rounds so with even decent shot-placement, everything I've ever shot at has died quickly.
I was looking at going with a Leupold VX-I 1-4 Shotgun scope (or similar scope - the scout scope, the Mark AR, etc... are all pretty similar weight wise) on Optics Planet's Leupold Custom shop and changing the reticule to get either a Special Purpose, Mil-Dot, or Varmint Hunter just to give me enough of a reticule to take a 200yd shot (max I'd probably try to take when hunting with an AR is 200-250yds).
That reticule is expensive though, and I wonder if its worth it or should I just go with a duplex and adjust the knobs if I need to take a longer shot. I figure it would do well in the same type of scout mount that the Millet DMS-1 fits in, but I'd probably just do rings for now to keep the weight down.
I'm actually thinking of ditching Irons if I go this route, but I've honestly thought about going entirely the opposite way and ditching optics altogether to go with a light-weight setup of just irons. Problem is that I get no magnification that route and my eyes aren't getting any better as i get older so I'd probably be killing the possibility of any longer range shots at that point.
I don't know - just tossing this out there for conversation's sake I guess.