Aimpoint Mirco ,,,,,I bought two of these Micro Aimpoints and put them on a shotgun and a rifle to be used on driven game...From five to 100 yards I got my hat handed to me every time I tried to shoot game. Could not get animals in the site picture.
I sold one of them and kept one to practice with. Think I might have been closing an eye..........Put scopes and open sites back on guns and filled my tags the last few weeks of season. All running shots. 100 percent.

Now I have a EO TECH on my AR and while that I never hunted running game with it. It does seem easier to use than the Micro Aimpoints.

What am I doing wrong? and what can you guys suggest to help me improve?
Man it is tuff in the woods to keep animal in site window.
Thanks a lot for your help.

...how small the lens was.. And that was both eyes open.

They may just not be for you.

I believe you are doing what most people do when using a RD sight, aim it like a normal scope, concentrating on the dot like a cross hair, which is not the best way to use a RD sight.

You need to look thru the tube to the target with both eyes open, concentrate on the target not the dot. When done correctly the dot will appear as if it is a laser dot being projected onto the animal/target, this happens when your dominate eye is aligned with the tube and the target.

RD sights are the best option when close and/or fast shots are taken, their speed in this type of shooting is tops. But you loose a lot of the benefit of the RD sight when used with one eye or aimed like a normal scope.

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right hand shooter,,,,,,,,,master left eye...........Or I guess I should ask Does it matter? That was one thing that appealed to me in the beginning.

I can't say for certain as I amp not cross eye dominant, but I'd think a red dot would help with that. A training 'trick' I've heard of it so close of tape off the front of a red dot sight. When you look through it all you see is black with a red dot I there. If you have both eyes open, your brain superimposes the dot onto the vision from the other eye. I was supposed but it really did work. Honestly, I have. Hard time shooting anything, even shotguns, with both eyes open. It's something I'm still
Working on myself.

In my limited experience with red dot sights I have found that they work better for me if they are located at least to the front of the rail on a flat top AR.

In fact my preference is the red dot on the rail with a co-witness to the iron sights. This way as you instinctively line up the irons you see the dot floating out in front.

When the red dot is located close to the eye like a telescope it does not work well for me.

Byron

that worked on this very principle.

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for 'occluded eye gunsight' and I was a sales rep for the company in the mid-80s. Still have my display model but the tritium needs to be replaced as it is very dim now. I probably should sell it since, having lost the use of my left eye, it is no longer usable by me, but it is a good memento from a fun time.

well these are hunting guns, But about center over the bolts on both guns.