The move away from red to green
I really don’t have a problem shooting with regual optics in low light, but I’ve never been in the streets for combat missions in low light. I’ve done plenty of hunting in the early mornings and since I could clearly tell that some of my lower end optics really sucked as far as brightness, I still got the job done when the sun came up. I never liked many of the red dot reticles because the red dots all seemed to blurry to me. I guess its a disadvantage for those of us with good vision, but I found the blurry bright red dots annoying. They tend to obscure targets because they are either too big or too hazy.
Trijicon ACOGs are well known for their reliablility and clarity and for their unique illuminated reticles. I find many in the gun community like the fancy reticles, but I still prefer my reticles small and thin. The only time I don’t mind a larger reticle is with the Eotech rifle scopes, but that is only for close up fighting. Trijicon has also discovered that the green illuminated reticles are preferred by military and law enforcement because the human eye picks up the light better. Very interesting.