Red Dots just aren't good enough.

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My small backyard presents a lot of short-range pesting opportunities. (20 yards and under). I love my trusty old Marauder Pistol for this kind of application. I have tried a couple red-dot sights recently because they are extremely lightweight. I also like the ability to acquire a moving target so quickly and easily. 

I started with a super cheap holographic sight, but I struggled with accuracy. The dot moves around depending on your eye position. I loved how lightweight the gun was, so I decided to try something better.

So, I moved to a much more expensive Red-Dot with a very small (2 MOA) dot. It's really fun to shoot with, but damn near impossible to place a shot accurately on small critters like squirrels and sparrows. Even at ranges under 20 yards!

I'll be moving the Red-Dot to my shotgun, for shooting slugs at wild pigs at the ranch.

And, I guess I'll be going back to the Good 'Ole Bug Buster for short range airgun work.

...The Bug Buster is hard to beat.. Unless anyone has suggestions for a VERY lightweight scope for this type of shooting?

 
Agree with your assessment. I helped my brother sight in his Ruger .22 with a red dot sight this last weekend (he's never owned a rifle or shot one much before). The difference in my cheek/hold/eyeball and his resulted in a difference of about 1 or 2 inches at 20 yards for point-of-impact. Even his own shots varied by nearly that much at the relatively short range we were shooting at.

It did bring up a good opportunity to discuss with him about parallax and the various optics available, and I had the chance to show him my Wildcat with a "cheap" AO scope mounted on it. He's a newbie to the shooting sports, so he's got some learnin' to do, but he's also my older brother, so it's hard for me to be in the role of the teacher with him...
 
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