RMR durability: what are the drop standards?

[Tirod]

Can you drop your RMR on the concrete and will it survive?

Oops, slips out of your hand, rotates mag up, impacts hard surface after more than a 4 foot fall. This has nothing to do with the actual gun - it could be a revolver. It's about impact resistance of a glass sight mounted on the top sighting plane and what potential damage could be realized.

I'm thinking there's probably a body of evidence that arises from competition use, altho dropping the gun isn't as likely there. Damage is reported tho, getting jammed on barriers, working obstacles etc.

So, pics if you have them. RMR's get talked up a lot these days and every accessory has its benefits - but the retailers usually gloss over the uglier details. Like, smashed housings, broken glass, etc.

BTW I was working a higher hqs during DSI when the light repair company returned from their deployment, they had conexes filled with broken red dots. Thousands. Night vision, too. It was all part of the brigade float, all the spares in supply swapped out for broken ones to keep the soldier equipped. Brand made no difference, they all broke. Breakable optical glass is common, your phone with gorilla glass is far more durable.

We don't talk about the camel.

 

[jmorris]

I'm thinking there's probably a body of evidence that arises from competition use, altho dropping the gun isn't as likely there.

Depending on the game, you’ll only get to drop it once before you are DQ’ed.

That said, playing 3 gun is the only time I have chunked rifles or shotguns in barrels (carpet lined though).

I have had Jpoints (all plastic) that have withstood a lot of banging with the aluminum wing mount.



The acog reflex is as close to being a tank as one could expect with glass in the equation. The RMR seems pretty solid but I can’t say that I have dropped it, sight down onto concrete yet.

It would certainly have a better chance of survival if it were mounted on something like a Glock vs a desert eagle though…

 

[1KPerDay]

Take a look a sage dynamics on YouTube. Aaron Cowan does repeated drop tests from shoulder height on concrete. RMR survives.

 

[taliv]

i've got RMR dual illum on:
S&W M&P CORE x2 (daily carry since 2014, >50k rounds)
5lb Ar15
Silencerco Maxim9

And an RMR type 2 on an 18" AR

so, 5 total. thrown a couple in dump buckets, but can't say i've ever dropped one. I had to return one for repair because the dot got very dim, but no physical breakage.