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DO YOU LIKE YOUR ILLUMINATED SCOPE?
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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1670460" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>Hey CaptnC, your setup on hogs sounds like the one I was using down near Dilley, TX; battery powered green LEDs shining on/around the feeder. They put out enough light that I could see through the scope (Zeiss Conquest) well enough to find the cross-hairs and head shoot the hogs from the blinds. Just for giggles, I'd try to pick-up hogs not in the LEDs and it was hit or miss if I could see the reticle or not. If it was a full-moon, I could have shot hogs all night without any artificial light, at least with that particular scope. A good, high light transmission optic is a joy under those circumstances.</p><p></p><p>But I can totally see how a glowing red dot or crosshair would make it just that much easier to see the aiming point and make the shot under some adverse conditions. The thing is, if it takes a battery, I'm just not into it. For what it is worth, for any and all daytime (legal hours) hunting I've done, there was never a time I looked through the scope and couldn't find the cross hair to place on the game animal, BUT I think about Alibiiv's example (see below) and think, "Now that is one time I could totally see a need for an illuminated reticle." Black bear. Dark woods. Black cross hairs disappearing on the bears fur...not going to find a black, non-illuminated reticle under those circumstances! It's great companies provide us so many options so people can pick an optic that works for their hunting environment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1670460, member: 9308"] Hey CaptnC, your setup on hogs sounds like the one I was using down near Dilley, TX; battery powered green LEDs shining on/around the feeder. They put out enough light that I could see through the scope (Zeiss Conquest) well enough to find the cross-hairs and head shoot the hogs from the blinds. Just for giggles, I'd try to pick-up hogs not in the LEDs and it was hit or miss if I could see the reticle or not. If it was a full-moon, I could have shot hogs all night without any artificial light, at least with that particular scope. A good, high light transmission optic is a joy under those circumstances. But I can totally see how a glowing red dot or crosshair would make it just that much easier to see the aiming point and make the shot under some adverse conditions. The thing is, if it takes a battery, I'm just not into it. For what it is worth, for any and all daytime (legal hours) hunting I've done, there was never a time I looked through the scope and couldn't find the cross hair to place on the game animal, BUT I think about Alibiiv's example (see below) and think, "Now that is one time I could totally see a need for an illuminated reticle." Black bear. Dark woods. Black cross hairs disappearing on the bears fur...not going to find a black, non-illuminated reticle under those circumstances! It's great companies provide us so many options so people can pick an optic that works for their hunting environment. [/QUOTE]
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