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Shotgun Gear: Redring Sight Review

Shotgun Gear: Redring Sight Review - TheArmsGuide.com

December 8, 2013 by Kevin 10 Comments

After being introduced to shooting sporting clays by fellow TAG contributor, Nate Schultz, last fall, I had stocked up a couple boxes of clays, just waiting to be turned to powder. When I recently received a Redring shotgun sight, I had the perfect excuse to head out to dust those clays. What follows is my experience with the Redring sight, and plenty of fun at the cold sporting clay range.

Features

Shotgun Gear: Redring Sight Review - TheArmsGuide.com
The reticle for which the Redring sight is named. Image courtesy of redringsight.com

 

Before I get into shooting with the Redring sight, allow me to give you a brief rundown of its features. The Redring sight displays a red ring target reticle that represents the space of the shot burst at 65ft (which also helps to serve as a range finder). The spot metering technology of the Redring sight has a processor that automatically adjusts the brightness of the reticle depending on the background light (that is, the brighter the background light, the brighter the reticle appears, and vice-versa). Although, if the auto spot metering doesn’t give you quite the intensity you’re looking for, you can manually adjust using the two buttons on the Redring sight’s side. The sight has an automatic shutoff. It either shuts off 4 hours after first turning it on, or if you make a manual adjustment, it turns its self off four hours after the last adjustment.

Installation

I’m not necessarily the most mechanically inclined of sorts, so I was thankful that installing the Redring sight was straightforward and simple. With the enclosed instructions and Allen keys, I was able to mount the sight in just a few minutes. I first measured the width of my Browning BPS’s rib (for those of you with Picatinny rails on your shotguns, Redring makes an adapting mount for that, too). Then, following the instructions, swapped a spacer on the sight, mounted it, and tightened it down. Conveniently, no sighting in is needed. Once the optic is mounted, I was good to go.

Performance

I mentioned earlier that Nate first introduced me to shooting sporting clays. That was in fall of last year. I’m a bit ashamed to admit, I hadn’t made it back to the sporting clay range since that outing. That meant that the trip to the range with the Redring sight was to be my second-ever attempt at shooting clays. Even considering my inexperience with this shooting medium, I encountered a remarkable degree of success sending clays into the great dusty beyond. I have to give a large degree of credit for that success to the Redring. The bright reticle was easy to see, even in the varying light of the cloudy sky. The low profile of the sight didn’t alter the shotgun’s balance, nor did I have to adjust how I shouldered or looked down the sight to adjust to the new optic. The parrallax free ring was easy to track whether shooting left or right handed (as a left-eye dominant shooter, I prefer shooting long guns lefty). All I had to do was cover the clay with the red ring, pull the trigger, and poof! No more clay. After about three hours of shooting, I missed only two or three clays (which most likely was the result of me misjudging the occasional breeze). After a couple hundred rounds of 20ga, and many a felled clay, the sight hadn’t loosened at all.

Price

This is bound to be the biggest limiting factor for folks. The Redring sight, as lovely as it works, is not cheap. Brand new, the Redring sight will set you back about $750. If you decide to purchase a Redring shotgun sight, you’ll be making an quality investment into your future shotgun shooting experience.

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Kevin Kevin is an avid hunter and military history enthusiast. He participates in WWII reenactments every year and boasts a large antique firearms collection. The Winchester 1873 and Colt M1911 are two of his favorites. Kevin enjoys researching the best products on the market to keep The Arms Guide reader up to date and informed.

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Comments

  1. Avatar for KevinAllwet says

    December 9, 2013 at 8:11 am

    RMS Trijicon- 500 +/-
    Fast Fire 2-3 Bushnell-320+/-
    Hard to add the extra 250-430 bucks for what is little more then a red dot…..

    Reply
  2. Avatar for Kevindrmorris9 says

    December 9, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    I am afraid the price kills it for me, but what a great idea for a shotgun reticule.

    Reply
  3. Avatar for KevinMuskrat says

    December 9, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    Sounds like a great addition, but the price puts it out of my range (very punny, right)!

    Reply
  4. Avatar for KevinEricKmiecik says

    December 12, 2013 at 7:19 pm

    Looks a great add. Especially because It make you have very little misses Destinee.

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  5. Avatar for KevinAllwet says

    December 13, 2013 at 1:11 am

    okay, I got the first dig in at the manufacturers suggested retail……tough to swallow.Otherwise ,I do fall back on 2 things; 1) anything that gets you to shoot more, gets you shooting better(usually).2) Anything that makes you shoot better, gets you shooting more!….so that’s better…..

    Clear

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  6. Avatar for KevinFateofDestinee says

    December 17, 2013 at 11:09 pm

    AllwetThe price is definitely not its most winning feature… lol

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  7. Avatar for KevinFateofDestinee says

    December 17, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    drmorris9 I certainly enjoyed using it, even in the cold :]

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  8. Avatar for KevinFateofDestinee says

    December 17, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    MuskratI see what you did there ;D

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  9. Avatar for KevinFateofDestinee says

    December 17, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    EricKmiecikIt notably improved my performance shooting clays. I was quite pleased :]

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  10. Avatar for KevinFateofDestinee says

    December 17, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    AllwetI like those two points haha ;]

    Reply

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