Any hacks for a illuminated reticle?

[rodjava]

I have a nice scope with both red and green illuminated reticle options.
However, I only shoot during the day and have never used these options.

Is there a hack so that I can turn on the colored reticles to view during daylight shooting?
The contrasting colored reticle would be helpful in some paper target shooting sessions.

As far as I know, the illuminated reticles are only visible in dark lighting conditions.

Rod in San Francisco

 

[Peskådot671]

No hacks as far as I know besides buying a new scope with brighter illumination. It's pretty much "You get what you get".

 

[Martin3528]

I can see my reticle in the daylight. Not sure which scope you have, but at the brightest settings I can see all my reticles.

 

[Nutcracker]

Did you try a new battery? I don't care for scopes that have illuminated dots or rets, that only work at dusk.

 

[rodjava]

Thank you to the membership who chimed in so far.

 

[JP806TX]

I have a nice scope with both red and green illuminated reticle options.
However, I only shoot during the day and have never used these options.

Is there a hack so that I can turn on the colored reticles to view during daylight shooting?
The contrasting colored reticle would be helpful in some paper target shooting sessions.

As far as I know, the illuminated reticles are only visible in dark lighting conditions.

Rod in San Francisco

Sightly confused. Until I re-read your post (my fault not yours).

I think your question is how do you "fix" your illuminated reticle so that it's highly visible in bright daylight?
I assume that at the highest brightness setting, it's still hard to see the illumination (but not the reticle).

Don't know if this will work for you. but have you tried a sun shade? Try putting a cardboard tube over your objective. Experiment with different length. You might find the right length to block enough peripheral? light to finally see your illuminated reticle...or not...but it's a cheap easy test. Down side is that you might need to sacrifice image quality?

 

[rodjava]

Sightly confused. Until I re-read your post (my fault not yours).

I think your question is how do you "fix" your illuminated reticle so that it's highly visible in bright daylight?
I assume that at the highest brightness setting, it's still hard to see the illumination (but not the reticle).

Don't know if this will work for you. but have you tried a sun shade? Try putting a cardboard tube over your objective. Experiment with different length. You might find the right length to block enough peripheral? light to finally see your illuminated reticle...or not...but it's a cheap easy test. Down side is that you might need to sacrifice image quality?

Yes, you are correct.
Your suggestion to experiment with adding sun shade lengths has some merit and I will give it a try.
Thanks for chiming in.

Rod

 

[Fuciliere]

I have a nice scope with both red and green illuminated reticle options.
However, I only shoot during the day and have never used these options.

Is there a hack so that I can turn on the colored reticles to view during daylight shooting?
The contrasting colored reticle would be helpful in some paper target shooting sessions.

As far as I know, the illuminated reticles are only visible in dark lighting conditions.

Rod in San Francisco

this is not a illuminated reticle, but a red dot that multiple crosshair option, added a archery lens on top to make it magnified

 

[rodjava]

Thank you to all the member who chimed in so far.

My original thoughts with the lighted reticle during daylight, is that the contrast color would be more visible against with my different colored shoot and see targets I have. I only shoot at 200-300 yard paper targets.

The best suggestion was to block out some light at the front of the scope lens. I thought it was a great idea, so I 3d printed a special lens cover with a 3/4 inch hole in the center.

It block out enough light to trick the scope to turn on colored reticle. However, I determined that the colored reticle did nothing to improve the sight picture.

So, I'm giving up on the idea.
Rod in San Francisco

 

[Motorhead]

Fit a OCULAR eye shade. Getting your sighting eye away from stray light that is brighter & into a shaded space will aid in being able to detect / see the illumination on the scopes retical. As well brighten up and make cross hairs appear crisper

Such as this picture ...

 

[Ezana4CE]

@rodjava Which scope are you running with which reticle option?

 

[rodjava]

Fit a OCULAR eye shade. Getting your sighting eye away from stray light that is brighter & into a shaded space will aid in being able to detect / see the illumination on the scopes retical. As well brighten up and make cross hairs appear crisper

Such as this picture ...

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Great intel. I will give this a try. Seems accurate info. Thanks

 

[rodjava]

@rodjava Which scope are you running with which reticle option?

Currently, I shoot a Sniper KT 12-60x60 MOA scope with both red and green illuminated reticles.
I normally shoot at around 40x and zoom to 60x to see my shot placement at 200+ yards.

 

[Ezana4CE]

@rodjava I asked hoping that someone familiar with that reticle may be able to provide helpful info. At such high magnifications I would expect an illuminated reticle to be visible, but I have no experience with high magnification scopes or that particular scope. I have no useful input here.

 

[rodjava]

I tried a suggestion from a kind AGN member, Motorhead, to try using a rubber eye piece to improve the visuals of my colored and lighted reticule. Unfortunately, it did not work out as planned. The eye piece was a little difficult to view through and did not really improve my sight picture. I tried it with and without the front lens "peep hole" lens cover.

BTW, I had to 3d print an rear lens adapter to fit the rubber eye piece.

It was a good suggestion, anyway.

Rod in San Francisco