Hi guys,
i'm looking to fit a compact lightweight red dot sight to a compact carbine & have narrowed the it down to a docter gen 4 or aimpoint micro red dot. Can anyone tell me of their experience, preference of the two for close range hunting? I intend to both during the day and with lamping at night, it needs to be durable & hold it's zero & light so as not to spoil the ballance of the rifle. Opinions please

I much prefer tube-type red dot sights, so Aimpoint is my choice; I own 3 of them and I know a couple of guys that owns others; none is unsatisfied. One of them lately damaged a 10-12 years old XD5000; the manufacturer has been VERY helpful for the repair. I have no direct experience with the Micro model, though.

For the love of God, I have never, but ever seen the point in having a tube-type red dot sight.
Why in the name of all that is saint would anyone want to limit their field of vision as the tube type does? I see no benefit at all in the type.

To answer the question - I have only heard good things about the Aimpoints.
I use a Docter myself and the only downside is that the dot is too bright in dim light so the sight is useless in the dark. OK in dusk, however.

- Lars/Finland

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Originally posted by Schauckis:
For the love of God...

Your disagreement seems to me somewhat excessive.

Ford-Nut,

I've owned & used them all here in the Land of the Drive Hunt; so the Wheat gets sorted from the Chaff pretty quick IMO.

My personal preference is a 30mm 0X Red Dot scope (tube); Why? They're short, light and I can easily (why, dunno?) use them with both eyes open and the "scope/tunnel" effect goes away. Right now I'm using 2 Milletts and have found them to be utterly reliable and very good value for the money as well.

I do not prefer the TV screen type Docter sights but many of my buddies use them; in all their current & past variants from Docter - and they love 'em, too.

I've got one AimPoint; a 2X and I prefer it less than all the others because of the "tunnel" effect. My perception is I'm looking through a small pipe with very small field of view and the red dot is a pin-prick. Now that's not all bad, either depending on what you want to use it for; as the dot's small enough that you can really shoot well at distance but IMO it's more for static shooting than moving targets (Drive Hunts). It is the most rugged, reliable, piece of optical equipment I've ever had attached to a rifle (from 7mm, 308", 9.3mm's & 375"s); for sure and battery life is magnificant; basically, you hardly have to concern yourself with turning it off. When I get around to getting a mount for my Ruger .22 pistol I'm going to try it on that.