EOtech reticle question? > Optics, Mounts, and Sights

Posted: 1/25/2008 5:10:37 PM EDT

Just received my Eotech 512. Haven't mounted it yet since the rest of my parts haven't arrived. I put the batteries and fired it up to see what it looked like. The reticle looks fuzzy. No crisp circle or dot. Will this get better when I have it mounted in its proper location? Has anybody encountered this? Suggestions please!

Posted: 1/25/2008 5:19:21 PM EDT

[#1]

thats how it is

ETA: look at the target, not the recticle

Posted: 1/25/2008 5:22:03 PM EDT

[#2]

i feel like i am looking through somebodies elses glasses when i look through it. There appears to be 2 center dots. Doesn't seem right.

Posted: 1/25/2008 5:37:20 PM EDT

[#3]

www.eotech-inc.com/technicalfaqs.php

The reticle is fuzzy/ has a 'halo' effect/ has more than one reticle:

The reticle is naturally pixilated and the outer circle will appear to be made up of many small dots. The center circle will still be distinguishable as one dot.

1. Lower the brightness level of the reticle. This fault is generally caused by the reticle brightness being too high. The reticle is not designed to be so bright as to block the target.
2. The reticle is projected onto your target plane. You must focus on it like you would any other object at that distance. Do NOT focus on the sight housing like other reflex sights; focus on your target. The outer ring is designed to be a reference to center, similar to a ghost ring.
3. If you wear corrective lenses for nearsightedness, you will require them to see the reticle in focus as it is projected onto the target plane. If you wear bifocals or have astigmatism, you may see a distorted reticle.
4. Check with others who have used the sight, and compare what you see to ensure it is not your focal acuity prior to turning the sight in for repair.
5. Contact Repair & Service.

Posted: 1/25/2008 6:14:09 PM EDT

[#4]

Thanks for the help guys....looking at target does help alot!

Posted: 1/25/2008 10:14:48 PM EDT

[#5]

EVERYBODY that first picks up an Eotech (or Bushnell) Holosight for the first time looks through it and try to focus on the reticle. You are not the first to do this.

It isn't a scope. It is a holographic sight system.

You use the Eotech with BOTH EYES OPEN.

Look at, focus on your target. The Eotech is merely inserted between the target and one eye. Either eye. And it does not matter which eye is dominant.

YOU look at the target with both eyes. Move your rifle up into position while looking at the target. No, don't look at the reticle... look at the target!!!

Move the rifle until the reticle is centered around your target. Squeeze off a shot.

Adjust as needed.

If you have a front sight and flip up BUIS, you can do this to speed up the process. Before turning on the Eotech, sight in the iron sights. Zero at 50 yards. Get it right.

When the irons are right, turn on your Eotech. Peer through the iron sights, and adjust the Eotech so that the dot is on the tip of the front sight post.

Flip the rear sight down. Now you don't have to have the dot on the front post. The hard thing to get used to is the rifle shoots where the reticle is, no matter where it is in the Eotech window. You can look over iron sights, or to the side. Whereever you see the reticle, that's where the rifle is going to shoot.

OK, now shoot, target at 50 yards, using the Eotech only. Focus on the target. Fine tune the adjustments on the Eotech so that you are zeroed at 50 yards. Once you are satisfied with the Eotech's adjustments, you can flip up the irons and take a look, but it should have the red dot right on the tip of the front post now.

OK, practice.

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