barnbwt
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So I've decided to move a few purchases up ahead of The Last Great Panic, and one of them is the optic for the Kel Tec RDB soon to arrive at my local FFL dealer by way of the internet loophole .
There's been a ton of buzz about the Romeo 4 series SIG came out with (the one with solar, dual reticle, and auto on/off), but there is very little about the larger size 7. I'm guessing that 30mm dot sights are simply not in style compared to the much smaller/lighter 20mm units; I have no ambition for magnifiers or night vision or irons, so the size isn't really a big issue (and the RDB is fairly light, so the extra six ounces or so is probably tolerable). At any rate, I found enough specs/reviews to try the 7 out, since I really like the idea of a larger field of vision (only other dot sight I use is a beater EoTech 512 that's probably nearing the end of its service life)
These things are supposed to have a selectable reticle (dot or dot/circle), and some type of auto on/off feature I've heard mixed reviews of (the Romeo 4s --which are clearly a variant of the Holosuns, though whether it's a parallel product line or knock-off remains to be seen-- seem to have more than a few reports of this feature going inoperative). It's apparently awesome when it works, which is usually, though. Runs on a single AA battery, supposedly for longer than my car's mortgage term (62500 hours), which I believe is also a good bit longer than the unused shelf life of the same batteries. There's somehow only two or three reviews of the sight out there, despite its being on the market for a little while, which are largely positive. Apparently the little straps for the screw caps suck.
I plan to update this with a real review when it gets here, but until then, I wanted to see if anyone else has had any experience with these guys. Appears to be similar to some of the Vortex offerings (Spitfire?). 300$, can't be *that* bad, I figure, and best case I get a decent sight that doesn't require an ON switch.
TCB
There's been a ton of buzz about the Romeo 4 series SIG came out with (the one with solar, dual reticle, and auto on/off), but there is very little about the larger size 7. I'm guessing that 30mm dot sights are simply not in style compared to the much smaller/lighter 20mm units; I have no ambition for magnifiers or night vision or irons, so the size isn't really a big issue (and the RDB is fairly light, so the extra six ounces or so is probably tolerable). At any rate, I found enough specs/reviews to try the 7 out, since I really like the idea of a larger field of vision (only other dot sight I use is a beater EoTech 512 that's probably nearing the end of its service life)
These things are supposed to have a selectable reticle (dot or dot/circle), and some type of auto on/off feature I've heard mixed reviews of (the Romeo 4s --which are clearly a variant of the Holosuns, though whether it's a parallel product line or knock-off remains to be seen-- seem to have more than a few reports of this feature going inoperative). It's apparently awesome when it works, which is usually, though. Runs on a single AA battery, supposedly for longer than my car's mortgage term (62500 hours), which I believe is also a good bit longer than the unused shelf life of the same batteries. There's somehow only two or three reviews of the sight out there, despite its being on the market for a little while, which are largely positive. Apparently the little straps for the screw caps suck.
I plan to update this with a real review when it gets here, but until then, I wanted to see if anyone else has had any experience with these guys. Appears to be similar to some of the Vortex offerings (Spitfire?). 300$, can't be *that* bad, I figure, and best case I get a decent sight that doesn't require an ON switch.
TCB