GREEN dot sights?

[Krull]

Red is an un-natural color. I have shot with a red and green chevron on an ACOG. Red is 10x better because you don't see that shade of red in nature vs the green dot, even though it appears brighter, gets washed out in vegetation.

I mostly became a fan of green with fiber optic sights,I noticed I could see the green one hell of lot better then red....

I may just get a half way decent green dot sight and play with it,Redfield has a new one that looks fun and I think it has red/green dot.

And I never "lost" the green on vegetation with the FO,the dot may be a different story.

Oh well we'll see.

[JBecker 72]

I remember reading a while back someone took an Aimpoint and modified it to green.

[Koshinn]

Maybe a green dot infront of a PVS-14 wouldn't work as well as a red dot?

Also maybe so you preserve your regular night vision in low light situations?

[Caduceus]

Red is an un-natural color. I have shot with a red and green chevron on an ACOG. Red is 10x better because you don't see that shade of red in nature vs the green dot, even though it appears brighter, gets washed out in vegetation.

No it's not. There's tons of red things in nature. It's just that in most environments, green and brown is more common. Now I agree you'd think red would be easier because of that.




Robins, red wing blackbirds, roses, cardinals, fall foliage, several variety of snakes and amphibians (typically poisonous), etc.

[steyrman13]

Interesting....but you may have to factor in maybe not needing to jam it to eleven to see it?

It's just a thought I wanted to say out loud,who knows? maybe one with a setting for day and night? or one with a solar for day in green that you switch to battery and red at night?

I can be a mad scientist at times.

According to the charts shown, even the red "jammed" at 11 pulls less power than green at lowest setting, so the battery life would still be longer.

Personally I have never been able to see an advantage in the green lasers. I have compared identical red and green lasers side by side many times and the green never appeared brighter or easier (for me) to pick up. Not to mention once you get into the out doors green has a disadvantage in the fact that it can blend in with green vegetation.

Maybe it's just my eyes but from my perspective red always made more sense, and green seemed like more of a sales gimmick than anything else.

Definitely not a "sales gimmick." Depending on what brand you used, but a quality green will definitely be brighter and more powerful than its red counterpart. You can still see a green laser in bright daylight where as a red disappears. At night you can pretty much see the hole green beam where a red you cannot. Lots of differences, but those are the simplest.

[theblackknight]

I have no ****ing clue why the USMC decided to put the yellow RMR on top of the x6 ACOGs when working in the desert.

sent from mah gun,using my sights