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Does anyone use one of these ACOG reflex sights on their double? I have one mounted on a cheap Remington .30-06 pump gun and it is absolutely wonderful during driven hunts of whitetail when the action gets fast.

As I age, my eyes just aren't what they used to be with irons, so I'm contemplating the unthinkable to stray away from the tradition of iron expres sights.

I'm thinking to get a thin flat metal plate, drilling it and screwing the reflex sight to it and then drilling/tapping the quarter rib and screwing the plate down to the quarter rib. The ACOG as supplied by Trijicon mounts to a picatinney base that puts the sight way too high above the bores, so I'm thinking that if I solve for the "too high mounting" issue with the affore mentioned method of mounting low over the bore, I'd have a really functional sighting system... No batteries, self adjusting light intensity for the red dot thanks to the ingenious fibre optics and tritium, near indestructible sight, and fast fast fast to be on target........

The final consideration is the question of sacrilege to mount a combat sight on a classic double rifle.... Looks wrong, feels wrong, butt ugly, but damn, it REALLY works.

Recoil on a .500 NE is unkind to poor optics, so I'd be curious if anyone has "torture tested" one of these reflex sights by real genuine field use.....

And the most important question of all, will anyone still respect me in the morning if I mount this funky modern sighting system to an other wise very cool traditional double rifle?

Thoughts?

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