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2/27/2013 9:56:16 AM EDT
New to the Site and must say Im impressed.
Question to you all.
I'm in the finishing phases of my first AR build waiting on my upper receiver. I intented on putting
a Trijicon RX30 and a 3x maginfier on it. But that is several months away. I want to start practicing
shooting with a red dot system described and my budget is $250. Any help would be appropriated.
Once I get the Trijicon system I will be putting the budget system on my son's 22 rifle.
2/27/2013 11:39:28 AM EDT
[#1]
The Bushnell TRS-25 is an excellent budget red dot and can routinely be had for under $100.
2/27/2013 12:10:05 PM EDT
[#2]





Quoted:



The Bushnell TRS-25 is an excellent budget red dot and can routinely be had for under $100.



Time and time again the Bushnell TRS-25 on a UTG high mount is your decent budget red dot answer for around 100 bucks.


 



Also the TRS-25 which is a micro Aimpoint clone would be excellent for your sons .22LR.
2/27/2013 5:50:41 PM EDT
[#3]
I'd recommend the Vortex Sparc. Its $200 at optics planet and if you enter coupon code opiv5of you get 5% off. I had the strikefire and it was a great red dot and I will probably end up with the Sparc on my m&p15-22.
2/28/2013 10:24:11 AM EDT
[#4]
Thank you all
Just ordered the Bushnell TRS-25 which is for my son's 22 rifle for $92

And also checked into The Vortex Co.
I will be ordering the Strikefire and VMX3 Magnifier
reviews are good and also several of my patrol buddies have the strikefire and love them.
2/28/2013 11:38:58 AM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
The Bushnell TRS-25 is an excellent budget red dot and can routinely be had for under $100.


Amen to that.

I've had mine 5 years:

- two batteries
- 12k+ rounds on my 74 riding on an ultimak
- 3k rounds on my Spikes riding on a UTG rail
- currently on my 7.62x39 AKM

Holds zero and won't die.

To be honest when I was looking at replacing it, I couldn't really justify paying $400 - $700 for a good rds and mount (Eotech / AP Pro / AP H1)....so I bought an ACOG.
2/28/2013 9:03:42 PM EDT
[#6]
I ordered the TRS-25 to put on my M&P15-22. Now I just need to find an inexpensive set of mbus on the EE to replace the sights that came on it.
3/1/2013 11:26:30 PM EDT
[#7]
I've had my TRS-25 for about a year and I'm starting to have some problems. Sometimes when shooting the dot will just up and disappear and you have to play with the brightness level to get it to stay on. It's happened a few times now and I no longer feel safe using it on my HD/everything else rig. It was a great RDS when it worked right.
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