I mounted a Docter red dot site on a gun tonight. It's great...a bright red laser-like dot that's really easy to acquire. I called my 12 year old in and told him to look through it and he said it was kind of fuzzy...and green.
"WHOA!" I thought...it broke. I grabbed it back and looked through it and it's red...and crisp. Hmmm...I have him look with his other eye...same thing...green and fuzzy.
I pulled him into the kitchen where there's a file folder with multi-color tabs and asked him what he saw on each when I pointed to them. He got them all correct...red looked red, yellow looked yellow, etc. Stoplights look red to him...no problems with color.
Next I asked the wife to look through it...she saw red.
I looked again...but this time I checked both eyes. My right eye sees pretty much a dot with a slight trail on the right...but my left eye...geez...it saw a dot in the middle with about 6 other dots around it...but still red.
Next I noticed that when I use my left eye (the one that sees a bunch of blurry dots) and keep my right eye open...the view goes back to one good dot...even though my right eye can't see the dot at all.
I thought this was a really strange deal...especially the last part...where the dot looks like a fuzzy multi-dot picture through my left eye...but normal if I then open my right.
Anyone else have issues with seeing the wrong color in a red-dot scope? Any ideas why it would look fuzzy with one eye but normal with both open (even though the "good eye" isn't looking through the scope? The "good eye" physically can't see any portion of the dot at all).
"WHOA!" I thought...it broke. I grabbed it back and looked through it and it's red...and crisp. Hmmm...I have him look with his other eye...same thing...green and fuzzy.
I pulled him into the kitchen where there's a file folder with multi-color tabs and asked him what he saw on each when I pointed to them. He got them all correct...red looked red, yellow looked yellow, etc. Stoplights look red to him...no problems with color.
Next I asked the wife to look through it...she saw red.
I looked again...but this time I checked both eyes. My right eye sees pretty much a dot with a slight trail on the right...but my left eye...geez...it saw a dot in the middle with about 6 other dots around it...but still red.
Next I noticed that when I use my left eye (the one that sees a bunch of blurry dots) and keep my right eye open...the view goes back to one good dot...even though my right eye can't see the dot at all.
I thought this was a really strange deal...especially the last part...where the dot looks like a fuzzy multi-dot picture through my left eye...but normal if I then open my right.
Anyone else have issues with seeing the wrong color in a red-dot scope? Any ideas why it would look fuzzy with one eye but normal with both open (even though the "good eye" isn't looking through the scope? The "good eye" physically can't see any portion of the dot at all).
