Rifle Scopes ARD - Do you use one? Why? Why Not?

They are hard to shoot with in low light. But if you don't mind taking them off, they are shorter than a sunshade. As an added bonus Tenebrex also makes covers that seem to hold up better than the BC ones.
 
Got em but we never seem to use them. I always find myself just putting a slit in a MRE package and laying it between the cover and objective or grabbing a handful of grass and putting it in the bell (not the best idea and be careful not go grab anything hard enough to scratch the lenses) or I just thrown a section of cammo net veil over the scope. All seem to work in a pinch so the ARD just sits in the gun room with all the other gizmos I have accumulated over the years. Not against the ARD at all, I just never use it on the fly and 99% of my application is short notice deployment.

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Just curious what folks are using in the realm of Anti Reflection Devices. Why / why not.
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I have and carry a 2" honeycomb ARD in a small padded camera lens zip pouch . It is lanyard inside my pack .
It's stays there because Every once in a while it's worth it's weight in gold for when the sun is low in early or late afternoon & shinning strait @ your Obj. lens .
Plus, those short 2" honeycomb ARD are about equal or better than a Long 6" sunshade Tube for shading .
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The only reason to use one is if you're at a 2 way range.

They cut light, resolution, color fidelity, contrast... but if at a two way range, i would be happy to lose all of that so the other guy couldn't see me. :p
 
My USO 5-25 came with it installed and am/was too lazy to take it off. Don't run them on any of the others. My steel never shoots back, which I'm ok with at my age.
 
My steel never shoots back, which I'm ok with at my age.

Well, I'm glad to hear THAT! I've had steel shoot back at me! Once while shooting steel plates out at 100 yards from beside our cabin, we heard "BANG!" "thunk"....."BANG!" "thunk"...."BANG!" "thunk". Damn bullets were coming right back to us and hitting the cabin! Apparently, we should have been using ARDs.
 
I have one on my little 2x7 leupold hunting scope- the king the slips between the objective and the scope cap - I can't find a sunshade for that model and my tree-stand faces the sun just wrong on the last weekend of hunting season. A few years ago, I put the scope on a buck of a lifetime and just saw grey. After moving around a bit I found a sliver of shade and was able to drop him.

A very narrow set of circumstances indeed.
 
There's a line between two different type of shooters on this site and this is a 'topic' that will pretty much depend on which side of the line the answer is coming from.

When I used my rifle scope as part of an observation tool in order to track troop movements, things of interest or it was time to play ball - I always used something that would be considered an ARD due to the fact that you cannot always setup so that the sun didn't reflect light off of your glass, or were there long enough to where it eventually would.

If you're using your rifle to go to the range, competition or to shoot in your backyard, they have no purpose as they cut light transmission and add some minimal weight.

However, if you are ever going to be in a position where a reflection off your optic would cause you problems (i.e. daytime coyote hunting, being somewhere you're not supposed to be, hunting in general), then I suggest some form of ARD be it the $100 plastic one or cardboard/tape with a cut out or a pair of panty hose rubber banded over the objective.

FYI - best ARD I ever had was the panty hose off a chick in Kosovo name Lule.

I also brought a visual aid to class:
 

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FWIW, if the light source is in the field of view an ARD won't help. ARDs only work when the light source is "off-axis".
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well DUhhhh .. I know it wont work if you look directly @ the sun .
But the USoptics short honeycomb is tough enough on the gauge/thickness, to throw in the Pack and take a beating .
And 'does come in Real Handy' when you got the Sun Low and your pulling the trigger in that direction .

Other than that . it stays in the pack for a Sun Shade when I need it. & it does the job of a Long thread-on, Sun-shade tube in a much smaller and robust package .
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Mine stay on, all the time. Yes alone they drop the light, but the other device behind it brightens things back up albeit yellow, but that's the price of not having to re-learning your gear,... quickly. The add is, they deflect barrel heat a little as well. Use something long enough and you will find out how to over come most of it's short comings.
From reading most of the responses sounds like many, only want to learn their gear under stress, if ever,... now where did I put my meds?
 
There's a line between two different type of shooters on this site and this is a 'topic' that will pretty much depend on which side of the line the answer is coming from.

When I used my rifle scope as part of an observation tool in order to track troop movements, things of interest or it was time to play ball - I always used something that would be considered an ARD due to the fact that you cannot always setup so that the sun didn't reflect light off of your glass, or were there long enough to where it eventually would.

If you're using your rifle to go to the range, competition or to shoot in your backyard, they have no purpose as they cut light transmission and add some minimal weight.

However, if you are ever going to be in a position where a reflection off your optic would cause you problems (i.e. daytime coyote hunting, being somewhere you're not supposed to be, hunting in general), then I suggest some form of ARD be it the $100 plastic one or cardboard/tape with a cut out or a pair of panty hose rubber banded over the objective.

FYI - best ARD I ever had was the panty hose off a chick in Kosovo name Lule.

I also brought a visual aid to class:

Funny post! But it is basically all true, other than I cannot comment on Lulu's panty hose.
 
I have one on a SS 10x that tops my Savage 17HMR for varmit hunting. Also have one on my USO ST-10, which tops my custom .308, but have never gotten around to taking it off because it hasn't hindered the light gathering of the objective enough to where it bothers me.

Realistically, no one "needs" one, unless maybe you're in theater. However, like most have said, they do provide a slight advantage over a sunshade being smaller, lighter, and more easily stored.