My father recently shot my carry guns with red (green) dot and he loved it. He has a 44 magnum Taurus revolver and carries it sometimes hunting. His nearly 80 yr old eyes are garbage, and he wants to try using a red dot on it. I sometimes hunt with a similar gun in 454 Casull, but I mounted a Burris handgun scope on it, and quite frankly it’s not very easy to obtain a sight picture thru the tiny eye piece at arm’s length. Dad thinks the benefits of the red dots on a small semi auto would translate into the bigger gun for him. I know it’s very popular to use a red dot on a big bore hunting wheel gun, but I’m not exactly sure what would be a good selection for Dad’s rig.
There has to be a few of you here setup in this fashion, what is a good make/model, what to look out for, what did you use before that didn’t work? My problem with my scope is the small diameter of the tube eye piece, trying to pickup the crosshairs, I know certain red dots aren’t much more than the “toilet paper tube” with a red do inside, which I think has to come with the same difficulty as the traditional scope(?).
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. My google research brought back bacisally the micro red dots like for a carry gun, I don’t think that is the best choice IMHO. I think Dad will need a bigger and more forgiving “eye box” and a more precise reticle type aiming point, like with an Eotech (for instance). I thought this would have been easier to figure out....
There has to be a few of you here setup in this fashion, what is a good make/model, what to look out for, what did you use before that didn’t work? My problem with my scope is the small diameter of the tube eye piece, trying to pickup the crosshairs, I know certain red dots aren’t much more than the “toilet paper tube” with a red do inside, which I think has to come with the same difficulty as the traditional scope(?).
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. My google research brought back bacisally the micro red dots like for a carry gun, I don’t think that is the best choice IMHO. I think Dad will need a bigger and more forgiving “eye box” and a more precise reticle type aiming point, like with an Eotech (for instance). I thought this would have been easier to figure out....
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