Accupoint 3-9 duplex reticle

[NoLongerAToaster]

Im looking to put to the TR20-1G on my new Howa 1500 30-06 but I can't seem to find a picture of what the duplex reticle actually looks like through the scope. If someone with one of the these could kindly take a picture and put it one here it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks !

 

[eoperator]

 

[NoLongerAToaster]

Thank you very much sir !

 

[eoperator]

I've had many of these over the last ~20yrs, my eyes prefer amber dot.

Fyi a 3-9 accupoint on a suppressed 17hmr is a beautiful thing.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

Dot covers 4-5” on my 15” gong at 425 yards on 9x. Real world. Never an issue hunting, killed deer to 420, and kids were champs behind it. Great on coyotes in full sun and snow too. It’s a good duplex.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Dot covers 4-5” on my 15” gong at 425 yards on 9x. Real world. Never an issue hunting, killed deer to 420, and kids were champs behind it. Great on coyotes in full sun and snow too. It’s a good duplex.

This mirrors my experience. It’s a great hunting reticle. Very easy to see in woods or fields. I nailed a headshot on a groundhog at 80 yards offhand with it last summer.

I prefer the green reticle, but that’s just a matter of preference.

I give my friend John his choice of any hunting rifle in my safe when he goes hunting with me, but he always picks the rifle with the AccuPoint (even when I get bored and stick it on a different rifle).

 

[Stinky Coyote]

Advice on reticle color is go to outdoor shop archery section and grab some 5-6 pin fiber optic sights and hold them up and see what colours pop the best for you. Most of them have red green and yellow. In order for me it’s green red and yellow. Oddly enough it’s usually two green pins, two res pins, and only one yellow pin on lots of the 5-pin sights I recall or own.

 

[onlybrowning]

I thought I'd add, I reached out to Trijicon about the size of the dot before I started using this reticle and was told that it is a 0.25 MOA dot.

 

[Macintosh]

I thought I'd add, I reached out to Trijicon about the size of the dot before I started using this reticle and was told that it is a 0.25 MOA dot.

For what it’s worth, according to Trijicons reticle subtension diagram on their website the 3-9 duplex has a .4moa dot at 9x. It will measure differently at a different magnification. The same diagram for the 1-6x shows that duplex with a .6moa dot.

 

[Xperimental]

I have the 3-9X40 AccuPoint w/ green mil-dot reticle that I use for hunting, and I also have a TA31F ACOG with the red chevron (similar to the triangle-on-post) on my RRA 5.56 AR. For hunting and benchrest shooting, I prefer the crosshair, and the mil-dot gives some holdover guidance for those longer shots. The chevron is, for me, more suited to moving target acquisition and less precise longer range shooting. Also, I'm not particularly fond of the amber color, so I would opt for green, since the crosshair reticle isn't offered in red.

 

[NoLongerAToaster]

Thank you for all the helpful responses to my first post on here !

 

[onlybrowning]

For what it’s worth, according to Trijicons reticle subtension diagram on their website the 3-9 duplex has a .4moa dot at 9x. It will measure differently at a different magnification. The same diagram for the 1-6x shows that duplex with a .6moa dot.

That makes sense to me. It’s possible I misremembered what the tech said as well. Thanks for adding that in!

 

[thinhorn_AK]

It just looks like a regular reticle with a small dot in the middle, its not that dramatic unless you are really in a lower light situation, I can't even tell its illuminated when its bright out but why would I need to anyways?

I have 3 of them, 2 plain green dot ones and a mil dot one that has a yellow dot. I like the mil dot one just for basic holdovers, I don't dial it.

 

[Macintosh]

@thinhorn_AK is the mil dot on the 3-9 accupoint a wall-to-wall reticle, or is it like some others with only the floating crosshair in the center of the field of view? I checked out a 1-6 accupoint with the mil dot reticle and it was center only, and the dots were very small and hard for me to use compared to some other mil dot reticles Ive used. BUT my eyes are aging and noticeably worse than they used to be. What has your experience been with that reticle in the 3-9?

 

[thinhorn_AK]

@thinhorn_AK is the mil dot on the 3-9 accupoint a wall-to-wall reticle, or is it like some others with only the floating crosshair in the center of the field of view? I checked out a 1-6 accupoint with the mil dot reticle and it was center only, and the dots were very small and hard for me to use compared to some other mil dot reticles Ive used. BUT my eyes are aging and noticeably worse than they used to be. What has your experience been with that reticle in the 3-9?

It’s “wall to wall” exactly like the regular plex reticle but with some dots on it. I hate those floating reticle things, I had a credo HX jet had that, I couldn’t do it, sold the credo HX.

I havnt used the mil dot accupoint extensively but I have made a rough chart that gives me some holds for the load I use on that gun, so far it’s worked alright, I’m only shooting that gun to 300 or so but I was able to hit an 8” plate with the holds so it should be good for hunting out to that point.

I wasn’t going to get the mil dot one but I got a screaming deal on it. I think it’s actually going to be good for my uses.