Remember you can always use a green light either on or off your gun if you don't want to use your battery on the internal IR.
I'm waiting on an incoming rifle to attach mine on,so have just been fooling around with it off the rifle. I can say though that I really like the image in the daytime. For my old eyes, the colored reticles, especially the yellow, help me get the thing pointed in the right place quickly better than, say, the non-illuminated crosshairs do on my Leapers UTG. And the IR really is a joy. I'll play with the red dot a bit once I actually get the darn thing on my rifle.
Only thing I'm not keen on is that the laser range finder is focused low and far to the right, so that if I center its read-out square on the flashing white bar of the laser as recommended, while I can read 18 yards, I can't read 18.75 or whatever. The last two numbers are cut off by the elevation indicator on the right side. I saw another commenter on youtube inquire on a vendor's review what to do about that, with the vendor saying call him up. I asked the commenter, and he responded saying the vendor told him there was no way to adjust that, and that he would have to send it back to wherever he got it from if he wanted to address that problem. An all or nothing solution. He also said that he did NOT do so, but just learned to live with it.
I don't mind losing the 10ths of a yard much, but I do wish the laser's placement was a little higher, toward my aiming point. I would have to shift the rifle a bit less to make the LRF correspond to my target.
