Absolutely, Jorge, right you are. I foolishly took the Trijicon off my rifle the next day and put the little Nikon backup scope I'd brought because I didn't trust the Trijicon to fade out on me again if I got a shot at eland in the brush, whereas I should have just turned the shroud around, which of course turns the post reticle with an illuminated point into a simple post reticle.

There's no doubt in my mind that the illuminated point on the Trijicon was key to nailing my buffalo as I did. It was past sundown. The buffalo was black as the ace of spades, and my riflescope reticle post was the same color. Precise shot placement would have been much more difficult if I hadn't had the green triangle to place my shot precisely where I knew his heart was.


"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars