Posted: 8/4/2017 8:38:58 PM EDT
| Do you leave it on even if you know it will be in the safe a couple weeks? |
I leave mine at seven.
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I bought a Comp M4 in 2009, put a battery in it, turned it on to setting 11 (I think) and left it on. I finally had to replace the battery a few months ago.
I got two T1's last year and did the same thing. I expect I'll have to change those sometime around 2021ish...? I love Aimpoints like a fat kid loves cake. Gratuitous pic... Attached File |
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If the red dot is on any sort of designated go-to gun, like your trunk gun or the gun you plan to grab if interdimensional vampire pedophiles try to break down your door, I feel like you should probably change the battery more often than needed.
Like if the battery life is 4 years, change it every year. That would kinda suck if you left your red dot on for 3 and a half years, and Alex Jones' warnings come true and the vampire pedophiles materialize in our dimension in front of you on the highway. So you run back to the trunk to grab your rifle, and as they charge towards you to grab and suck on your whatever, you shoulder the rifle and go to line up the dot with their nasty chest, and the dot goes out. Now you have to flip up your BUIS and by then it's too late. They're on top of you sucking your stuff out of your whatever and then they teleport away into their home dimension after they're done with you, and steal your rifle too. All because you didn't rotate the battery in your red dot. |
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Anything with a red dot in the safe is off.
We have an AR in the closet with an Aimpoint- it is off. Pick it up, chamber a round, flip up the covers, turn it on. If I don't have time to turn it on, I'll use the tube as a big ghost ring. The AR has a front sight tower. I practice all this. It works. |