Readers may have noticed I was absent the last several days. It was a good time away. A very good buddy and neighbor of mine, Robert, and I went hunting courtesy of the fine folks with Williams Hunting in South Carolina.
I was shooting a 6mm ARC rifle with a Grendel Hunter upper, Aero Precision lower, Amend2 magazines, Brownells scope mount, Radian Raptor charging handle, Nikon Black scope, and a Viking Tactics sling. I have no complaints about the gun. It's at least a 1 MOA gun…… [read more]
I like being confronted by things I’ve never thought about before – or in other words, I like to learn. This is one of those many things.
My take: No glass is perfect, especially the less expensive glass used for fixed magnification sights (1X) and red dot optics. There will be some parallax, refraction, and lack of clarity.
Think about how you want to set zero on your rifle for later use with only iron sights. What Reid is saying is that you may not be able to co-witness the irons with the glass if both are to be correct.
Good point. I’d like to take one of Reid’s classes.
BLUF: The Trijicon MRO is awful. Trijicon has apparently tried to fix it, to no avail.
I’ve read comments before at various websites where readers were giving other readers a hard time about buying Holosun (even Primary Arms has Chinese products).
The problem is that the Chinese are whipping America at producing good quality products for cheaper. That’s America’s fault, not China’s.
What are we supposed to do – throw good, hard earned money after bad?
And do any other Trijicon optics suffer from the problem of lack of glass clarity, magnification in 1X optics, etc.?
Does the Trijicon RMR produce a screwed up sight picture due to fish bowling?
I’m just asking for a friend before the friend throws away good money.
You can also purchase a new slide or have a current one machined to anchor without adapter intervention. Rival Arms, a Texas-based firm with an enviable reputation for that service, explained, “We offer two different optic cuts, RMR and DOC. The RMR cut, as you can imagine, is the same optic cut as the Trijicon RMR sight and will also work with other optics that follow this footprint (Trijicon SRO, Holosun 507c, Swampfox Kingslayer, TruGlo TRU-Tec Micro RMR variant, etc.). The DOC refers to Docter Optic footprint/setscrew pattern, which is compatible with the following popular sights: Vortex Viper [and] Venom, Burris FastFire, etc.”
I’ve noticed that this is beginning to be a real problem in the gun industry, i.e., choosing the right mounting option for pistol sights.
Here is another interesting article, more detailed and much more technical, entitled Footprints/Mounting Standards on Red Dot Sights. I catalog this sort of thing just for you, the reader.
Vortex has a holographic sight. This came out in July and I’m a little late to the game.
So this wouldn’t surprise me except that it does. I thought that EOTech was the only maker who could claim ownership of a holographic design. I said so in a recent post, and readers just let me chatter and prattle on in my ignorance without correcting me, allowing me to look stupid (well, I can manage that all by myself).
Anyway, it would be interesting to see if readers have any experience with it and what you think, although I still think the EOTech just looks better.
In this article, the most common footprints/mounting standards used on red dot sights are listed. Each standard is described and an image of it is added. At the end of each section, red dot sights that use the footprint discussed are listed.
This seems like a very useful cataloging of specifications and mounting information on most, if not all, of the red dot sights available.
Someone spent a lot of time putting this together. Gunsmiths may want to bookmark this for future reference.
Red-dot optics mounted on pistols are becoming so popular that some professional shooters see them replacing iron sights in the tactical environment.
Non-magnifying optics have long been the primary rifle sight for troops on the battlefield. Besides being accurate and durable, they are also faster than iron sights and perform better in low-light conditions.
Now the popularity of ultra-light red-dots — such as Trijicon’s Ruggedized Miniature Reflex, or RMR, sight — has compelled pistol makers to introduce special lines of their handguns specifically designed for accepting red-dots.
Glock just unveiled its Modular Optic System at SHOT Show 2016. It’s designed so shooters can install the red-dot of their choice with just a few tools. Smith & Wesson did the same at SHOT 2015 with the introduction of its M&P Competition Optics Ready Equipment, or C.O.R.E., pistols.
“Red dots on pistols are the future of handguns,” said firearms instructor Matt Jacques.
At SHOT 2016, Jacques was showing off Raven Concealment’s new Balor mount designed for an Aimpoint Micro T1 or H1 red-dot sight on a Glock with just a few simple tools.
Red-dots offer a single-sight plane, so the shooter doesn’t have to worry about sight alignment as with traditional front and rear iron sights, Jacques said.
I don’t have any red dot optics for pistols, but I find this concept to be very appealing. I wonder though, if existing pistols can be retrofitted for these optics without significant rework and gunsmithing, and I am not talking about the dozen or more gunsmiths who work at Hyatt Gun Shop, who can do just about anything with anything. Will shooters have to buy new guns in order to make this a reality for them?
