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77/44 + Millett SP1 = dead stuff for the last 20 years. Easy MOA at 100.

8 shots, 300 grain paper patch fired 9 years after it was loaded.



http://www.millettsights.com/scopes/sp-series-red-dot/

https://www.binocularsplus.com/products/millett-sp-1-compact-1x20-red-dot-sight-matte-black

The recoil with this rig is rather stout but the sight has survived many, many rounds. Working on battery #3 after all this time.

The SP1 comes with rings suitable for a rail and looks kinda like this when installed.

If that’s your thought, you might reconsider. Even Aimpoints and other higher end red dots that advertise ‘parallax free’, show error. Some may have minimal or none at a set range, but if your eye is not in the same place (good cheek weld), there will be impact shift. At 25-50 yards, it’s often not enough to matter. However, I’ve seen aimpoints shift a foot or more at 2-300. LPVs and Prism sights with a set eye relief and adjustable diopter and fixed parallax setting have proven far more precise, in my use, and every bit as fast.

I understand the red dot,,,, but why is there a fish reverse-mounted to your barrel?

That 25-50 yards would be max distance where this rifle will be used.

Then have at. I was just pointing out the huge upside to an LPV vs a dot. I will say: get a good one. Some cheap RDs can show monstrous error under 50, and be more precise the further out you get, with relation to impact shift.

LPV?

Low Power Variable.....1-4/1.5-5, etc

Burris Fastfire III, Savage 99 16" 358 carbine. Fired about 25 rounds the other day and no problems.

Actually, scout mounting the red dot like that alleviates some of the potential issues by forcing your head and eye closer to the same place between shots. When I do run one, I find farther forward like that helps, for sure.