My favorite reflex sight is the old Apogee "Mars-Eye" finder, no longer made. The one that goes by "Mars Eye" these days isn't the same at all. One of the largest windows available, and the dot is switchable from red to green. Dave Bennet has one as well, IIRC. I also have the Burgess finder and it's probably my second-favorite, tied with my Telrad, though the Telrad is a behemoth by modern standards. Still works well though. At the bottom of my list is the Orion red-dot finder along with an infinite rabble of BB gun sights, all of which have a red dot that is far too bright to be useful for finding dim objects. On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:31 AM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
Chuck, I agree that red dot finders still require some of the same contortions as straight through, the difference is it makes it so you are doing it for shorter periods and you also don't need to get your eye as close as you would for an eyepiece, so the contortions are reduced. They replace the need to sight along the finder and SCT's, for example, seem to short for accurate sighting down the tube.
For my 6"f5 all that is needed is an relatively inexpensive burgess reticle finder. These also seem to the rage among gun owners as well.