Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Trijicon Accupoint 3-9x40 vs Leupold VX-R 3-9x40

I have 4 Trijicon Accupoints - three are 3-9s, one is a 1-4. Three are amber dot, one of the 3-9s is a green dot. Obviously, I like them. I'll echo what others have said. All have been solid, reliable, scopes for the type of hunting we use them for, ie, not turret twisting in the field.

The other evening we were comparing a 2-12 VX-6, a 2-10 Conquest HD5, a 3.5-10 VX-3i, and three Trijicon 3-9s at about 1 1/2 hrs after sunset for light gathering. Sitting on our deck and focusing on a tree about 100 yds away. This was way past legal shooting hours here, but the illuminated VX-6 was clearly the winner in being able to discern details and picking out the crosshair. The Trijicons all sort of washed out and we would lose the reticle cross hairs. The non-illuminated Zeiss and VX-3i (both standard duplex) were very similar to the Trijicons as far as overall details - and we couldn't really pick out the crosshairs on them either. Again, at night (cloudy at that).

We don't hunt at night, but we have both killed some of our nicer bucks right close to the legal limit - that's just how the older buck behave - at least around here. All seem to have enough light gathering to work very well under legal conditions. The Trijicon is overall a very nice package for how we use scopes.