I was looking to buy a new sight for a turkey hunting shotgun, maybe also use on an AR platform. Does anyone have some experience with these sights or these applications. I was initially thinking of eotech, vortex, aimpoint, or any other suggestions. Thanks.
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Umpqua Hunter
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I went with Aimpoint. Check battery life between Aimpoint and EOTech and I think you will be surprised. My Aimpoint has a battery life of something like 5 years continuous (50,000 hours). I recall the EOTech was in the hundreds of hours. It has been a couple years since I researched this. The last thing I wanted was to be on a hunt and find out I'd left the scope on and my battery was dead.
You can get an Aimpoint with 2 MOA and 4 MOA dots. I was buying mine for deer hunting and wanted the finer aiming point.
You can get an Aimpoint with 2 MOA and 4 MOA dots. I was buying mine for deer hunting and wanted the finer aiming point.
I've looked at the eotech and liked it. I have to find a retailer for aim point to take a look at them myself. Thanks for your input. Do you have yours mounted on a rail? Has it stood up to abuse from recoil well?
luckynv
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I have a couple of Vortex Strikefires and love them. Quite a bit less expensive than either the aimpoint or eotech. They have held up well between my mini 14 and various blackpowder 50 cals. Good luck and God bless
az.mountain runner
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Colorado Cowboy
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Are you looking for a system that magnifies? I would think because of the differences in target ranges (much closer with the shotgun used for turkey hunting) the same optic might not be really interchangeable. I use a non magnifying red dot on my handguns for bulls eye shooting. They tend to be a lot less expensive than magnifying optics. Mine have red dots that have 10 different size selections.
Just sayin..............
Just sayin..............
I'm pretty sure the sight would stay on my shotgun, but I was still thinking it might be nice to be interchangable. The eotech 512 has a 1 MOA dot with a surrounding ring that looks to be about 10 MOA diameter, I think this reticle set-up would work for both. The Aimpoint reticle comes in either 2 or 4 MOA, and you can add an inline 3X magnification. The Vortex Viper has a 3 MOA dot. The nice thing about the Vortex is it's pretty low profile and only weighs 1.1 oz. The Vortex Strikefire also looks nice and is very reasonably priced. Too many options.
Just an update on my research I thought I would share. Seems L-3 Communications which owns Eotech settled a lawsuit in 12-2015 with the DOD for defective HWS's. The sights have thermal drift when exposed to varying temperatures from the temp were sighted-in. This drift can be up to 20 moa at 100 yrds. They also claimed them to be parallax free, not so says DOD lawsuit.
Really nice that Eotech and L-3 screwed our soldiers (my son) and law enforcement over for MONEY.
Never will even consider buying from these crooks. Rather give my money to Sweden for an Aimpoint.
Man I'm pissed.
Really nice that Eotech and L-3 screwed our soldiers (my son) and law enforcement over for MONEY.
Never will even consider buying from these crooks. Rather give my money to Sweden for an Aimpoint.
Man I'm pissed.
EOHunter
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I have a Vortex Sparc II red dot and really like it. Can't really beat vortex for their price and quality IMO. Have a vortex flip out 3x magnifier behind it as well.
Umpqua Hunter
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EOHunter...you don't shoot EOTech?!?! And to think, I thought I had your screen name figured out
EOHunter
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Haha, no EOtech for me...too much money. I really like the vortex optics and they are usually in my price range.