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Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
DO YOU LIKE YOUR ILLUMINATED SCOPE?
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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1669846" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>I like the IDEA of an illuminated reticle (when needed) but I hate the idea of batteries just sitting in the scope for years. Seems like they end up corroding and ruining whatever they are in. So...pull the battery? Put a fresh battery in every year? Something. But life gets in the way of these great ideas and inevitably something with a battery gets 'forgotten' and then...corrosion takes place or, more simply, I go to turn the item on in a time of need and...dang it...battery is dead. I hate that. (Yes, I'm talking about the ubiquitous red dot sights we've all used at one time or another.)</p><p></p><p>An illuminated scope that doesn't need a battery really appeals to me. So if I were hunting hogs at night, or black bears over bait in a dark forest, or elk in deep/dark timber, I would need to find me a Trijicon Accupoint (illumination without a battery needed.) Does anyone have one of these? Are they awesome? Cruddy? Somewhere in the middle? Just curious. I've avoided the illuminated 'stuff' up to this point due to too many red dot sights being 'dead' when I needed them (or having corrosion from an old, discharged battery.) Ugh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1669846, member: 9308"] I like the IDEA of an illuminated reticle (when needed) but I hate the idea of batteries just sitting in the scope for years. Seems like they end up corroding and ruining whatever they are in. So...pull the battery? Put a fresh battery in every year? Something. But life gets in the way of these great ideas and inevitably something with a battery gets 'forgotten' and then...corrosion takes place or, more simply, I go to turn the item on in a time of need and...dang it...battery is dead. I hate that. (Yes, I'm talking about the ubiquitous red dot sights we've all used at one time or another.) An illuminated scope that doesn't need a battery really appeals to me. So if I were hunting hogs at night, or black bears over bait in a dark forest, or elk in deep/dark timber, I would need to find me a Trijicon Accupoint (illumination without a battery needed.) Does anyone have one of these? Are they awesome? Cruddy? Somewhere in the middle? Just curious. I've avoided the illuminated 'stuff' up to this point due to too many red dot sights being 'dead' when I needed them (or having corrosion from an old, discharged battery.) Ugh. [/QUOTE]
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