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Leveraging Military Technology In Optics
For a quarter of a century, Trijicon has dominated the market for magnifying reflex sights. Given the choice of the world’s magnifying combat optics, the US Army and Marine Corps, British Army and Israeli Defence forces opted for the Trijicon ACOG. Designing an utterly rugged sight which offered rapid and precise aiming out beyond typical engagement ranges and adaptable to any rifle or machine gun won them their share of a highly comptetitive market. Trijicon’s Bindon Aiming Concept projects an illuminated aiming mark onto the target for both eyes open shooting. Aiming marks are specific to purpose and user depending on the speed of acquisition vs precision of aim required. It can be combined with ranging, ballistically compensated reticles to cover the full spectrum of ranges out to the envelope of the .50BMG cartridge.
What is the relevance to hunting? Thousands of hunters have found that rugged military optics enabling binocular vision shooting to hundreds of meters are the way to go. A lot of hunting is done at very short ranges – for example turkey hunting and deer hunting in close country. In these circumstances it can be a lot more important to take the shot quickly than to achieve sub-MOA precision. Cross hairs are easily lost against the tangle of underbrush and it may take just too long to get the narrow field of view of a traditional scope on target. A low magnification reflex sight like the TA44SR-10 reflex sight offers the benefits of the rapid target acquisition of a red dot sight with the magnification to discriminate targets in dense underbrush. You put the aiming mark on the turkey’s neck and squeeze the trigger removing the tendency to lift your head to find the turkey’s head and sending your pattern clear over it’s head.
All bottlenecked hunting rifle cartridges from the .222 Rem up let you aim straight on on a deer’s vitals out to 250 yards. The vast majority of deer in the Eastern states are taken at shorter ranges than this. You won’t want to exclude the possibility of taking a longer shot should the need arise. The last thing you want is to be wondering if you have dialed the right way, or if you even started from zero. Whilst scopes are available that overcome some of these objections, it’s a lot easier to just lift the muzzle slightly to put the right aiming mark on the target. Whilst the aiming marks are set up for the 5.56mm M855 and 7.62mm M80 rounds, you can easily go out and see where your own rounds impact relative to the marks from a 100 meter zero.
The mid range magnification ACOGs like the ACOG TA33-8 make a superb predator shooting system when paired with an AR15 platform with a good trigger. You use the BAC illuminated reticle for close range, fast moving shooting and the stadia reticle for loger range precision fire. These sights can be retrofitted or, with the Trijicon TA01NSN-RMR for example are supplied with a top mounted red dot sight for very close, fleetingly exposed targets that can present themselves in coyote shooting. Mid range varmint hunting can be accomplished with the higher powered ACOGs, getting you on target fast on critters as they pop out of their holes unpredictably. Low light will be far less of a problem with the ACOG’s lower mag and superb optics.
Quarry found in close country are often easily spooked – ACOG have created a killflash shroud which can be retroffitted (standard on US Army and USMC models) to eliminate the possiblity of glint from the objective lens.
AGOGs don’t need batteries – Bindon Aiming Concept models use fiber-optic light gathering to illuminate their reticles in daylight and a tritium light source for night illumination.
Finally, the ACOG is as rugged as it gets. If mounted on a solidly mounted or integral base, the ACOG will not lose zero and will repeat to within 1 MOA every time it is removed and replaced. Designed for military use, the ACOG will resist exposure to everything nature can throw at it including water pressure down to 80ft. Hunting seasons are short and you may well have had to win a lottery ticket or spend out $100s in out of state hunting taxes. That’s not a good time to have a high quality but delicate telescopic sight fail on you. The ACOG is the magnifying sight of choice of the armed forces of the western world. Civilian hunters have long assimilated the best of military technology, the Mauser and AR15 actions, the .30-06, .308 and .223 cartridges, VHF radio, 4×4 vehicles and GPS. Moving to ultra rugged magnifying reflex sights is the next step in a long tradition.
Copyright: Chris Pieterman 2010
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