I ran a vortex spitfire on my Encore 12 ga.
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It works pretty good. I have went back and forth from this sight to a holosun reflex. They both have their pluses and negatives.
It's true the spitfire is not battery dependent. But I did need to run the battery down. Because in low light with the light on green or red it washed out the target. But while turkey hunting I have never needed to turn it on. If you have the star burst effect using a red dot this sight will fix that. Being a 1 power it does seem to make things look farther away than they are. But again in the Turkey woods no big deal.
The reflex sight
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I'm running has shake awake and auto brightness and insane battery life. And solar powered as well. Out side a pop up blind these are great. You never have a worry it's always ready when you are. I did have the stare burst effect until I got glasses now it's no more.
The auto brightness feature doesn't work well from a blind on this sight. Most of the time I have to run it on manually settings. This sight gets very dim so washing out the target is not a problem. But like I said from in a blind you will need to adjust the brightness yourself. In every case I can think of hunting I adjust the brightness once at the break of daylight then one more time on a real sunny day and that it. Outside of a blind I let the auto brightness do its thing.
They both hold zero great. It just boils down to what you like best.
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