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I dig it.

Go for it and nothing wrong with hunting with an AR-15. Some folks are putting holographic sights on double rifles for hunting elephants. It helps with the old eyes.

Hi,

I don't sell Aimpoint but use them for more than 20years now to hunt running game in all western Europe as tenth of thousand hunters do every season.
They surely are one of the most effective sight one can buy for hunting running game in dense cover at close range. I have done some kills at more then 150m and they are easier to use than fixed sights when your eyes get older. A scope they are not but an effective system for sure.
They are tough, weather and water proof, stand the most punishing recoil even on handguns (454Casull Ruger), easy to zero (far better than most of the other brand) and with a 10 years warranty not other makes offer. They don't coast much on battery with around five years of running time on a single cell.
Play with it you will like the game.
Dom

Hi Miku,

Golden standard i don't know but they work very well for me and hundreds thousand of people around the world be them military, practical shooters or hunters.
The EOTech is a good one but it's battery life is far shorter than Aimpoint's, and i prefer the Aimpoint zeroing turrets. The Leupold Prismatic could be very good if the new series don't have the problems of the first ones which loose their zero on heavy recoiling rifle. I've got a new one to test, i'll see that at the end of my hunting season. The new Trijicon which is loosely based on the Aimpoint with some improvement i don't have tested yet. Look like promising, and far better than the other models of that brand. Zeiss have no accurate clics to zero them and eat battery fast. The small ones of many brands based on Docter sights technology are battery eaters, difficult to zero and need tools, their screen is too small for my taste (i prefer tube models)and most of them need to be re zeroed after battery changing.
That's not based on a one month test but on many years of using, mounting and zeroing for customers (i give hand at 2 gunsmiths)be it on shotguns, rifles or handguns.
Most of hunters past their 45s to 50s who hunt driven game in my piece of wood and get to the Aimpoint's improved their success ratio.
In the past ten years hunting France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Lithuania and other countries with Aimpoint's sights i shot more than 150 running wild boars, roes and red deers from 10 to 150 meters, on snow, in forests or plains, in bright sunshine or heavy showers. Calibers came from 7x64 to 300WM including 30-06, 9,3x62, 35Whelen and hot rodded 45-70.
Aimpoints 9000, Micro H1 or Hunter H34 never let me down. Number of shots is 255 around 1,7 for each game including finishers. So for me Aimpoints are like you said close to "Golden Standard".

I just want to add that i own some of the best scopes in the hunting world be them German, Austrian, US or Japan made but when time come to driven hunt or deep wood tracking i go to my 9000 or H1.

If you know how to shoot and your eyesight is good they are OK for 200m shoot on still game. With the 4 moa dot it's easy to keep all the bullets inside the vitals of any big game you can meet in your country. But if you look for long range hunting (shooting) better read the specialist comments about it you have on the fire, Aimpoints or red dot are not made for that.

Have good sunday.
Dom

That one is actually a Model Seven in 350 Rem Mag. The sight is the Aimpoint Micro T1. It is the the perfect setup. Keeps the rifle light and handy but is much faster and more precise to aim than iron sights.