Aimpoint Observations

[The_Count]

You are correct BUIS were down. Dial down the brightness to the point you can barely see it. That will take the bulk of the "flash/flare" away. I have attached several images. The round and silhouette targets were shot at 100 yards. The three sheets of paper were shot at 300. Keep in mind I was not going for precision on these targets, I just wanted to get some rounds down range using dot. I shot targets using the 3, 9, 12 & 6 edges of the dot. These are just a few of the ones I did shoot. The head shots on the silhouette targets were called shots. At 300 I used the top two sheets of paper for a reference point. I placed the right edge of the dot on the upper left corner of the paper.

Finally there is a single sheet of paper I indexed one dot high and one dot left and fired three rounds. Two of those rounds hit the target.

Please remember I am very new to the AR game, as you can see from my targets I have a long way to go. I am only posting the images so that you know what the optic is capable of in a beginners hands.



Have fun at the range!

TC

[zacbol]

Thanks! I actually used the R1 for the first time today, and oddly didn't actually have the issues with bluriness. It was only at 25 yards but I'm guessing having my focus further than a few feet away is what solved things. I've have to use it a bit more but I think I still prefer the reticle on the XPS but the R1 is still a very nice piece of kit.

[JSantoro]

The rear sight is acting as an aperture and it increases your depth of field.

Taking this a step further....

Guys that do photography will have more to say about this, but having an aperture in between you and the dot is the same effect as dialing down the f-stop on a camera iris.

With a camera, the tighter/narrower the aperture, the less light gets let in....which usually means that one needs a tripod and a longer shutter speed to get a blur-free photo, but that's neither here nor there in this case...but the photo you get will have objects from the lens to the focal limit fully in focus vs. only the specific item focused upon being clear with a wider iris opening under the same conditions.

Either that helps, or muddies the waters quite nicely.

[scootle]

Blobby dots aside... I think the preferred method to sight everything in is to first sight in your BUIS as you see fit, then with both sights up, dial the RDS to touch the front sight post while sighting through the irons. Then, fold down the rear and make fine tuning to the RDS as needed.

This gets everything sighted in together all at once.

As for the optical tricks with the aperture making the flare and halos go away... I always like to think that other than RF, optics are another form of black magic.