Bushnell TRS-25 - Good or Bad?

[jrodicus]

What version do you guys have? From what I've been reading the original had gold lettering on the side and the redesigned version has white lettering. From what I've been reading the white label wasn't built to the same standard and they moved the led in the site to the 6 o'clock position. Can anyone confirm this?

White lettering, 4 o'clock emitter. The 6 o'clock emitter was short-lived. Latest version is back to 4.

[armoredman]

I think I understand - when you look with one eye through the TRS-25 and the other eye is open looking at the same target through bare air, it looks to you as if the image of the target/surrounding area in the view of the TRS-25 is visually "shifted" one side or the other, so the two images don't line up in the brain, is that it? This might mean the glass on some nominally 1X optics might actually have a slight magnification effect, which might cause that odd visual effect.

[RSR]

Perhaps I'm just not explaining it correctly. The dot isn't moving. The whole image is shifted when looking through the glass - this happens when the optic is turned off. It has nothing to do with the dot size. I can attribute it to the optic because it has only ever happened with two specific examples - other versions (of the same bleep optic) don't have this issue AT ALL. I recognize that I am probably more sensitive to the issue than others for whatever reason, but it seems to be a manufacturing tolerance issue with the glass IMO.

Okay, now I'm following -- I thought it was a dot shifting issue, not a image shift.  Yes, glass providing some degree of positive or negative magnification could cause such an issue...