Compared to the smaller Micro H-2 sights, the proportion of external aluminium tube shrouding the glassware present in your field of view, from the aiming eye, is improved in my opinion – this makes acquisition and tracking easier in the larger overall picture presented. With intuitive ‘point, swing and shoot’ action required for driven game, good gun fit is distinctly beneficial so this low height, combined with a good cheek weld on the comb, limitless eye relief and a broad field of view, makes the task a lot easier. These lift the tube only 5mm above the upper surface of the rail, allowing the 34mm tube’s additional 17mm (half the diameter) to allow just 22mm spacing of the optical centre above that base’s surface. I used Aimpoints on Sauer 101 and Merkel Helix rifles over the course of the winter, both of which had inbuilt or added Picatinny mounting systems for which Aimpoint supplied a set of ultra-low 34mm aluminium scope rings. You can easily adjust the dot brightness on the top of the Aimpoint H34L to suit your surroundings – at dusk, for example You can see the angle by which the objective is tilted back into the tube’s frontal aperture, but don’t worry, this is how it’s supposed to look. Aimpoint’s patented technology, using an angled front lens/mirror and specific techniques for cutting the glass from its billet, means no parallax error is presented, and therefore if you can see the dot, that is where your bullet goes (providing the range and zero are correct, of course). A smaller, 30mm tubed version is also a possibility to save a little weight, but at 238g rather than the 263g for the 34mm version seen here, I wouldn’tworry too much since it also reduces the rear lens aperture to 25mm, which is 25 per cent less area. This is the largest 34mm tube to give a clear rear-end aperture of 29mm from the frontal 39mm objective lens, for the greatest possible field of view. The “L” model is for use on long-actioned rifles and magnum calibres that can accommodate its 229mm overall length but an “S” model is also available for short-actioned rifles (197mm). The sight is a reflex collimator design that projects a red LED forward onto an internally mirrored lens, which then projects back toward the shooter with unlimited eye relief. The H34L is the peak performer from the range, offering unusual looks akin to a 1-6×24 mounted backwards that seemed to encourage some funny looks at the range when zeroing.
Chris Parkin has the H34L red-dot sight from Aimpoint on test, and finds it a quality performer that’s easy and comfortable to use, tooĪimpoint has become synonymous with red-dot reflex sights, thanks to their optimised performance for moving game specifically the excitement of driven boar, popularised hugely by the “Wild Boar Fever” videos that whet all our appetites.
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