I realy like the fact that this opric is battery less. The fiber optic tridium is bright enough to work in most settings. It also holds it's accuracy quite well, even if you rough it up a bit. (I guess that's a fancy way of saying it's rugged.) The drawbacks I've found are two fold. 1) if you are aiming from a darker shaded area toward a lighted area, for example a low light shoot with a light colored target illuminated with the weapons taclight, or a shaded range to a sunny backdrop on a light coloored target, you will experiance "wash out" with the optic. However, you won't have that issue so long as your target is dark colored. 2) the back of the optic acts like a cup in nasty weather when you are holding the weapon at low ready or combat ready, therefore you will need to take active measures to avoid this if you want to avoid water beads in your sight picture. (Though i should point out that you can still use the optic even with water beads in the sight picture...it's just annoying. In sipte of these two draw backs I still would buy this optic again. In most situations it works great. In most advrese conditions it works ok. However, just like all optics, they are not a replacement for iron sights. It is wise to keep yourself well practiced with the iron sights, just in case.
By
Dirty Bandaid. from
Clearfield Utah