ACOG getting use to.. > Optics, Mounts, and Sights

Posted: 9/8/2006 7:37:42 PM EDT

Did you guys have to learn how to focus your eyes while trying to use an ACOG? It's getting better but it seems like I have to learn how to focus my eyes again. This may be a dumb questions, but I don't see the red chevron reticle at all. Only during dim light...and at that..it's extremely blurred to the point that I can't make it out. Maybe it's me.

Posted: 9/8/2006 8:00:39 PM EDT

[#1]

The brighter the light shining on the fiber optic tube on top, the brighter reticle will be. If it doesn't get brighter with a light shining on it then something is broken.

Posted: 9/8/2006 8:35:58 PM EDT

[#2]

Are you indoors? Take the scope outside, if it's got day light, it should be bright, if it's sunny, it's very bright.
Or maybe you have a TA01 that doesn't have a chevron

Posted: 9/8/2006 11:24:23 PM EDT

[#3]

Sounds defective. Sounds like it is only being illuminated by the tritium while in dim situations, and being washed out when in bright light. Being blurred is another bizarre aspect. Shouldn't be blurry.

Posted: 9/9/2006 12:09:32 AM EDT

[#4]

I'm going to test it out tomorrow. The tritium is lighting up but I think maybe because I am indoors and I am aiming at less then 25 feet the chevron is blurred. But you guys are saying that the tritium should light up in bright outdoor light? I defintiely see a black chevron in the reticle. I'll have to check tomorrow.

Posted: 9/9/2006 9:49:28 AM EDT

[#5]

ya outdoors it's so bright the chevron kinda gets washed out. Some people put tape over the fiber optic to turn down the brightness a tad.

Posted: 9/9/2006 9:55:15 AM EDT

[#6]

There's a disconnect between the chevron and the light gathering fiber optic, you oughta call up Trijicon and send it in.

Posted: 9/9/2006 6:16:13 PM EDT

[#7]

Ok was at the range today and the optic performed fine. For whatever reason when I tested it out in my kitchen maybe it was too dim and too close.

Posted: 9/11/2006 3:04:44 PM EDT

[#8]

I think it is mostly the distance issue. The first time I looked through one of the BAC ACOGs, I was looking at things in the same room, and I could not find the reticle. (Unlike the TA01 series reticles, that BAC reticle is pretty small compared to the field of view of the scope.) When I looked out the window, it was obvious. Some people have trouble even with the big TA01 reticle. When I show people my ACOG (a TA01), half of them can't figure it out when I am indoors, but outside no one has a problem.

Posted: 9/11/2006 3:11:11 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I think it is mostly the distance issue. The first time I looked through one of the BAC ACOGs, I was looking at things in the same room, and I could not find the reticle. (Unlike the TA01 series reticles, that BAC reticle is pretty small compared to the field of view of the scope.) When I looked out the window, it was obvious. Some people have trouble even with the big TA01 reticle. When I show people my ACOG (a TA01), half of them can't figure it out when I am indoors, but outside no one has a problem.

Yep that was my problem. You can barely see anything indoors. Hardly even noticed the red chevron.

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