I thought since I'd jumped on the bandwagon and bought a Notos, I'd go whole hog and get a prism sight and try it out. In over 50 years of shooting, this is my first prism. I don't like red dots because of my slight astigmatism causing the dot to flare a bit. Not bad but annoying, so I thought the prism might be a good deal.
First the spec, it's 3X with a circle dot reticle, and an advertised 5.5-6.0 eye relief.
I mounted it on the Notos, in the back rail, behind the side lever, and I must say, eye relief is perfect, and not fussy at all. After all the hoopla over finicky eye boxes on prisms I was a bit concerned, but this thing is great. It's just picky enough, that i'm guessing parallax is not much of a problem. I shot a 3 shot 1" group in the cold wind today, before I gave up to come it to get warm. Clarity is very, very good, even close up. I looked at a maple tree around 8 yards away and it was clear, and then at 15 yards my bradford pear tree, the bark was crystal clear, and with fantastic detail. At 35 yards it's also very clear, no complaints at all there. The circle dot reticle is great and maybe just a hair too big, but not a lot, it's highly usable. As far as the build and utility of it, it's a 100% on that.
Now, for the downside, which isn't much.
First is the turret adjustments, they're not hand adjustable, and even though they're positive, you need something to turn them, and the turret caps work well for this, but it's not the best idea for a pellet rifle. Also, there's not much ability to reset them for different distances. I'm thinking of making off some distances and making small notches on the turret ring to move to different yardages. Which brings me to another gripe, related to this. I love the circle dot, but there really needs to be some more aiming points so that you can use it for other distances and then the turret problem would be somewhat lessened. If the reticle and turrets were changed, this would be a KILLER prism sight for airguns.
I'm going to look around for a prism that has a different reticle setup and see what I can find, I've seen some expensive ones with finger adjustable turrets but didn't look at the reticle or eye relief. Given time, I think these things will evolve to a fanstastic idea for airguns.
First the spec, it's 3X with a circle dot reticle, and an advertised 5.5-6.0 eye relief.
I mounted it on the Notos, in the back rail, behind the side lever, and I must say, eye relief is perfect, and not fussy at all. After all the hoopla over finicky eye boxes on prisms I was a bit concerned, but this thing is great. It's just picky enough, that i'm guessing parallax is not much of a problem. I shot a 3 shot 1" group in the cold wind today, before I gave up to come it to get warm. Clarity is very, very good, even close up. I looked at a maple tree around 8 yards away and it was clear, and then at 15 yards my bradford pear tree, the bark was crystal clear, and with fantastic detail. At 35 yards it's also very clear, no complaints at all there. The circle dot reticle is great and maybe just a hair too big, but not a lot, it's highly usable. As far as the build and utility of it, it's a 100% on that.
Now, for the downside, which isn't much.
First is the turret adjustments, they're not hand adjustable, and even though they're positive, you need something to turn them, and the turret caps work well for this, but it's not the best idea for a pellet rifle. Also, there's not much ability to reset them for different distances. I'm thinking of making off some distances and making small notches on the turret ring to move to different yardages. Which brings me to another gripe, related to this. I love the circle dot, but there really needs to be some more aiming points so that you can use it for other distances and then the turret problem would be somewhat lessened. If the reticle and turrets were changed, this would be a KILLER prism sight for airguns.
I'm going to look around for a prism that has a different reticle setup and see what I can find, I've seen some expensive ones with finger adjustable turrets but didn't look at the reticle or eye relief. Given time, I think these things will evolve to a fanstastic idea for airguns.
