Batteries, Tritium, Fiber optics and now solar panels? Yep!
It’s been a while since we’ve seen major technological improvements or changes in the shooting community. I remember the first time I saw an ACOG on the range with the fiber optic cable and thought it looked like some neon toy and then I realized what the technology was all about and why having a red colored reticle could help your eye acquire a target quicker and having a reticle designed with a bullet compensator was also extremely useful. Although you can be very precise with an ACOG they are meant for speed more than sniper work but I have seen plenty of them used in designated marksmen work. If you were hunting with a rifle for the most part, deer are taken from under 100yds but the ACOG gives you the ability to hit targets 600-800 meters depending on the work you are doing or the configuration of the reticle.
Recently there was a new red dot put on the market from Trijicon. There isn’t much of a difference between one brand of red dots and the other if they are battery powered other than the durability of the optic, but the new Trijicon reflex sights like the SRS01 and the SRS02 are revolutionary in design now that they have integrated solar powered optics that pull from a battery if there is no available light. We’ve done some of our own tests with these optics and can tell that this technology is going to carry over to other products and it’s just the beginning. The SRS sight has a 1.75 MOA dot which I know of no other red dot that is smaller than 2 MOA. At low power this optic can be very precise.