Heavy Recoil Red Dot Optic
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 3 months ago
Crimson Trace has finally released the HRO or Heavy Recoil Optic that was announced during SHOT Show 2022. The HRO is intended to be used specifically on rifles chambered in bigger, heavier hitting cartridges like 308 Winchester, 300 Win Mag, 458 SOCOM, and the like. This makes the HRO specifically effective on what most people would typically call a “Hog Gun.”
It has automatic shutoff and gets 50,000 hours of run time with a battery.
This isn’t an advertisement – I do not have one. They haven’t sent me one to test, unfortunately.
But I find this interesting for bigger bore guns. Perhaps some enterprising reader wants to run a red dot on top of a Henry .44 magnum or Marlin 45-70.
On September 9, 2022 at 11:03 am, X said:
I have an early (probably 20 years old) high-quality, Tasco-branded red dot. It’s much bigger and heavier than the current offerings. I used it on a 12-ga slug gun and it was bomb-proof and never lost zero.
Red dots do not give a terribly precise focal point if you have astigmatism, as I do, but are plenty good enough for shooting deer at 50 yards with a shotgun.
On September 9, 2022 at 2:55 pm, Chris said:
EoTechs can handle a 50.
Ask the USCG.
On September 9, 2022 at 3:51 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Aimpoints work fine on larger caliber rifles. As per “Blackhawk Down,” SOF-Delta personnel used them as far back as the Battle of the Black Sea in Somali in the early-mid 1990s. Delta Force operator Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart was armed with an Aimpoint-equipped M-14 rifle during the action in which he and fellow Delta operator Master Sergeant Gary Gordon won posthumous Medals of Honor for their role in saving the life of downed Blackhawk pilot CW4 Michael Durant of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
On September 9, 2022 at 6:47 pm, Rocketguy said:
I’ve been running a Primary Arms prism scope on my 50 Beowulf for a couple years. Crisp reticle, holds zero (even with some pretty zippy 500 grn loads) after maybe 250 rounds, illumination still works…and the 9 mm ballistic reticle is a close match.