Steve,
We’ll let others who’ve used our Firedot reticles weigh in on recommendations, but we thought we’d help out with the technical bits.
The illuminated dots on the Firedot reticles are pretty small, in fact as small as the fine lines of the reticle itself. On that 2-7x33mm VX-R, the fine lines and the dot will cover about 0.4MOA at high power, and about 1.1MOA at low power (0.8” to 2.3” at 200yds). 0.3MOA to 1.7MOA on the VX-5HD 1-5x24mm (0.6” to 3.6” at 200yds).
Really, either would be a great choice, but the VX-5HD would give you a much larger field of view at minimum power for those fast close shots (123ft
100yds vs 43.8ft
100yds on the VX-R). Hope this helps, and if you have any questions at all give us a shout at 1-800-LEUPOLD or ProductSpecialist
Leupold.com!
