What is the best sighting system for a double rifle for elephant hunting?
This question or something similar is asked every couple of weeks...
Below are threads and posts that I've provided information toward sighting systems.
Something people may overlook is if a scope weighing one pound or more is mounted on a double, it may likely change the regulation of a double. This is something one must consider when considering adding a scope to a double.
I think that the EAW Pivot Scope mounts are outstanding! If a scope is required, pull it out of your backpack (or the one a tracker is carrying for you...) and snap it into place. The down side is the mounts with installation on a double rifle costs $2,000 or more. Scope not included!
https://www.newenglandcustomgun.com/products.php?cat=380
Iron/metallic sights are easy to use for most applications, providing the shooter can focus on those sights and still see the target! If a shooter needs reading glasses, chances are this is hard to do.
Reflex or "red dot" sights provide a single sighting plane like a rifle scope without magnification, worries about eye relief, or adding significant weight to an otherwise fast handling double rifle.
First is a link is to a long thread on red dot reflex sights
Red Dot & RMR Sights For Dangerous Game Rifles
Red Dot and RMR Sights for Dangerous Game Rifles
Above photos are Trijocon SRO on Heym 88B
I have been contributing information concerning Red Dot and RMR Sights for Dangerous Game Rifles on a couple of other threads that some AH members may have missed. I figure that this information warrants its own thread, so here you go!
Warning, this isn’t an article about every sight available. I am not a professional writer, as evident my often lack of editing! Nor do any manufacturers send me stuff to use so that I will give them free advertising. Rather, this is...
Second it a link to a short thread on
Red Dot Reflex Sight, Low Power Variable Scope, Or Metallic Sights???
There is a lot of discussion about using a riflescope on a dangerous game rifle (DGR) for close shooting. The options are instead using metallic sights, or a red dot reflex sight. The following are my observations based on substantial shooting experience and a couple trips to Africa. I am still learning Africa hunting but will share what I've learned about optics.
I have Trijicon SROs and RMR models mounted a third of the way down the barrels of doubles and a bolt action rifle. These are exponentially better than metallic sights for anyone who needs reading glasses. I remember Jack...
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Looking for advice. I am planning a future DG hunt for cape buffalo. The platform will be a Winchester model 70 Safari Express. I am not overly pleased with the open sites and am interested in adding a red dot /RSM? Any recommendations? Brand? MOA dot? battery? What do the experienced cape buffalo hunters ...
I posted this in February...
There is a lot of discussion about using a riflescope on a dangerous game rifle (DGR) for close shooting. The options are instead using metallic sights, or a red dot reflex sight. The following are my observations based on substantial shooting experience and a couple trips to Africa. I am...
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There is a lot of discussion about using a riflescope on a dangerous game rifle (DGR) for close shooting. The options are instead...
My Heym 88B in .458 Win with Trijicon SRO with 1 MOA dot.
With her we've taken lioness at 50 meters
A running warthog at 5 meters
Buffalo cow (cull) at 100 meters
Giraffe (cull) at 106 meters (my lovely wife hamming it up with my Heym)
Wild-e-beast at 150 meters
So, yes a red dot reflex or prism sight is as accurate as the rifle and marksman. That is as long as one can get the dot small enough for really precise aiming. Add to that the astigmatism that age gifts to us older guys which makes a bright red...
the reserve gunner has a scope on top again and that at 15 paces
If it is a true 1X at the lower magnification with an illuminated dot, good for him!
I have Trijicon SROs and RMR models mounted a third of the way down the barrels of doubles and a bolt action rifle. These are exponentially better than metallic sights for anyone who needs reading glasses. I remember Jack O'Connor writing 50 or 60 years ago that when a man needs reading glasses it's time for him to buy a riflescope. Great advice!
I also have Aimpoint H1s mounted on Accuracy X target 1911's and a Pardini .22 for...