Leupold rx 1400i has three brightness settings. Love mine. Might be worth a look.

 

Yep, 308 Ruger is right...this unit is nice. I do sometimes have to angle it to see so the display doesn't get confused with the background.

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vortex also had red display on the better models. Works awesome!

 

I have a Kilo1600BDX. You can adjust the brightness manually instead of using the autobrightness function for the LED display.

If you already tried that then it might be because of your color blindness that you were having trouble seeing the display. Having tried looking through any red dot sights that have a red and green display to see if green is better?

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I didn't try. It said it was auto. Wow. Thanks for the tip.

 

I really like my Vortex Ranger 1800. Has a bright (to me) red display.

 

Vortex Ranger 1800 has a bright red display. Actually opening weekend was the first time I used it hunting and it was too bright. I had it turned all the way up and it had a starburst effect so I couldn’t see exactly what I was aiming at. I turned it down a bit and good to go. I was actually surprised at how well it was able to range through very small openings between limbs.


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When I tried out range finders a couple years ago, I could not see the red that well as I am partialy color blind

The Leopold Marksman I bought is to sensitvie it picks up twigs in between me and the target

 

I actually just bought an astra range finder off Amazon and it seems nice. Has 5 brightness levels. I'll let you know in daylight tomorrow how bright it actually is.

 

Thanks for all the replies. I'm going back tomorrow to test it adjusted. I want red for low-light. Just to clarify the sig kilo is awesome it just initially wasn't bright enough. I hope the adjustment will help me.

 

i bought my Vortex FOR the red display because you can't see black ay night a 200 pound hog at 10 yards looks like a 400 pound hog at 30.............lol

 

My bad guys. It just wasn't adjusted right. It works great now. Thanks

 

Glad I could help, LOL.

@deadquiet, that's why I ultimately chose to go with the Sig Kilo1600BDX over the Kilo1400BDX. The 1400 was right in my price range and everything I could ask for. At first I didn't think the $50 extra to go to the 1600 was worth it for a couple hundred extra yards of reflective range and 100 extra yards for non-reflective targets. But then I found out the 1600 had the red LED display that was auto dimming or adjustable (as @willowhunt recently found out ). So to me it was well worth the $50 to have the red LED display because even though I don't hunt at night, I do tend to run into critters in dimly lit times like sunrise or sundown. Also in shady timber or black backgrounds the lit up display helps a ton.

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