First EOTECH results (pics added)

I shot my Barnes Yukon .62 yesterday with the EOTECH mounted for the first time. The results were at least as good as I had hoped for.

The gun is still not complete and in the testing stage (plus the stock has not been done yet) so things might yet change some. But, yesterday with the gun set to shoot at a little over 700 FPE the EOTECH worked great. I bought the model that is shorter than the original and has a cicular reticle with two dots in it. I did not get the NVG compatible model as I just don’t need to use it with NV gear.

I had hoped that the two dots could be set to bracket the hunting ranges and provide nice easy points for aiming without having to do much mental work to know where to aim. As it turns out, this was a great plan. Right now the center dot is dead on at 50 yards and without any adjustment at all, the lower dot is dead on at 100 yards. Naturally, this is a coincidence with the trajectory of this gun/slug combination but hey, that was the plan!

The reticle does provide another couple aimpoints at the top of the circle and at the bottom which I have not correlated to any range yet. I’ll have to do that as time goes on.

It is very neat to shoot with something that has so little parallax error. The ad says NO parallax and it sure looks like none when the gun is dead steady but I suspect there’s just the tiny bit when you get way out from center.

As yesterdays’ shooting was late in the day, I also got to test the value of the adjustable brightness of the reticle. Yeah, it works and it matters. As the light grew dim, the reticle started to get over-powering and less precise. Turning down the intensity allowed a nice precise aimpoint again. The really cool thing about this sight is that the aimpoint appears to be “on” the target but you can see it even if the target is a bullet hole. It doesn’t matter if the target is at 20 or 150 yards, the target and the reticle are in focus and no adjustments are needed to get a good picture. There is no magnification at all but that’s not a problem.

I put up “pie plate” targets the size of a deer kill zone at 100 yards and putting the 1 moa dot on the center of that target was easy. I’ll have to try this at longer range as the gun has the power to kill a deer at longer range but in reality, around here or most places East of the great divde, 100 yards is about the max for airgun hunting. Except for little critters like groundhogs…

The sight seems to work very well. It’s not the solution for shooting tiny groups but for hunting, it seems ideal. It weighs a couple ounces instaed of pounds and there is no focus or adjustment required after you see your prey.

Pictures for Wok…

The dots are 1 moa, top one on at 50 yards and bottom one on at 100.

As mounted on the Yukon.