Your aging eyes and target acquisitions
I recently got off the phone with a customer that told me we shipped him the wrong scope and the reticle he has on his optic was green and not amber. We took out several of the optics we had to see if Trijicon might have come out with a new scope reticle and we discovered that they had not. We did a quick quality control to see if something freeky happened and came to the conclusion that the customer was wrong. The thing that people don’t understand with red dots, Eotechs, night sights ect are that it’s really about contrast. You don’t need night sights during the day because it’s already light, you need night sights in low light or total darkness, but depending on how long the light is, you might want brighter imagery. There are always issues when moving from indoors to outdoor with a scope right and thats why varying power on a rifle or shotgun sight is a good idea.
I rarely adjust the settings on my Eotech 512 but I have plenty of friends that told me they had them on full brightness when they were outside in the desert. I recently did a comparison between Eotech sights and the new Trijicon SRS sight and fell right back in love with my Eotech. Considering all of the changes I have seen in the Surefire and Streamlight flashlights where the candle power is up about 85% which is a huge leap forward. Solar panels and battery storage is way up and I expect to see something very new in these regards with Eotech sights. I am a big fan of the EXPS sights and the red dot and 65 MOA dot get picked up by my eyes very well. I don’t see this changing anytime soon for my primary CQC optics.