I recently picked up a RMRHD after some input from others here https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/red-dot-dilemma.7215163/ and thought I'd do a running review of the optic. Couple of disclaimers, I'm a regular dude who A didn't receive this thing for free (be cool if I did tho) and B I'm dealing with a sample size of one. There is the chance my optic is an outlier either good or bad, we're gonna see. I'll try and keep track of round count, issues encountered ect ect.
I decided to chase down doing a red dot on a pistol after slowly coming to accept that I can't hit shit with irons at 25 yards anymore. My eyes just don't pick them up like they use to. My personal exposure to pistol mounted red dots is that I've shot them a handfull of times and it just seemed slow or hard to pick up. I'm pot committed at making this work now because my irons look like shit to me.
What's in the box: It was kind of hard to find one in stock at this time, but I stumbled across one of the 3.25moa ones at a local gun store and got it out the door for 625 cash. Box has all the typical stuff, sticker, instruction book, two sets of mounting screws with a little blue locktight on them and battery door tool thingy.
The host pistol is a G19 Gen4 that has about 5k rounds on it before it was sent off to be milled. I choose to use a pistol that has a track record of being dead bang reliable for me. The pistol was milled by Mod 1 Firearms. http://mod1firearms.com/ Some guys commented that the milling lacked bosses, or that the bosses are in the wrong spot or that bosses are good or that bosses are bad, some guys have pistols done by Mod 1 and no issues. It's the internet you decide if you like bosses or not, this pistol has bosses at the screw holes and came supplied with screws. I attached the optic with a little blue lock tight and torqued to 12 inch pounds, we'll see how she holds.
Initial impressions of the optic are all positive. The dot is easy to pick up, I like the eotech style reticle, top load battery seems like a massive improvement over the previous style, not having to use a sealing plate is nice and most importantly to me the auto brightness is FAST. When you turn on a surefire X300 the reticle almost instantly is bright and doesn't wash out. Soon as you kill the light it's right back to dimmer, pretty impressive and kinda of a no shitter moment that the sensor should be target facing.
5/10 Fired my first 150 rounds and I'm impressed. I found the optic easy to zero, but I did have a dipshit moment on the range. I couldn't get the damn brightness to a setting I like, the auto brightness feature I was so impressed with was no longer working. I figured out in my range bag some buttons got pushed and it was in manual. Ok now what? I fished out the like 40 page instruction book and was able to get it back to auto and lock it in auto. Def a user error, but I'm going to have to at least familiarize myself with the manual as I plan on running this under nods. Not the optics fault at all, but be prepared to do some reading, there are alot of modes and features you can set intentionally or unintentionally.
As far as firing it, groups looked pretty good once zeroed. Next range trip I'll rezero at 25, apparently that's mo betta, but I'll check and see how it held at 15 first.
Started at 15 leaning on my range bag
5, 2, 3. Felt pretty dialed in so 1, felt like any error there was most likely me induced so shot a 15 round mag of my carry ammo (Winchester 147+p) at 4. Seemed pretty locked on minus the one low one from me getting cocky and being stupid.
Top two targets were back to range ball trying to come from low ready to one round each. Left to right just trying to track the dot.
Rounds fired as of 5/13 165, no issues to date.
I decided to chase down doing a red dot on a pistol after slowly coming to accept that I can't hit shit with irons at 25 yards anymore. My eyes just don't pick them up like they use to. My personal exposure to pistol mounted red dots is that I've shot them a handfull of times and it just seemed slow or hard to pick up. I'm pot committed at making this work now because my irons look like shit to me.
What's in the box: It was kind of hard to find one in stock at this time, but I stumbled across one of the 3.25moa ones at a local gun store and got it out the door for 625 cash. Box has all the typical stuff, sticker, instruction book, two sets of mounting screws with a little blue locktight on them and battery door tool thingy.
The host pistol is a G19 Gen4 that has about 5k rounds on it before it was sent off to be milled. I choose to use a pistol that has a track record of being dead bang reliable for me. The pistol was milled by Mod 1 Firearms. http://mod1firearms.com/ Some guys commented that the milling lacked bosses, or that the bosses are in the wrong spot or that bosses are good or that bosses are bad, some guys have pistols done by Mod 1 and no issues. It's the internet you decide if you like bosses or not, this pistol has bosses at the screw holes and came supplied with screws. I attached the optic with a little blue lock tight and torqued to 12 inch pounds, we'll see how she holds.
Initial impressions of the optic are all positive. The dot is easy to pick up, I like the eotech style reticle, top load battery seems like a massive improvement over the previous style, not having to use a sealing plate is nice and most importantly to me the auto brightness is FAST. When you turn on a surefire X300 the reticle almost instantly is bright and doesn't wash out. Soon as you kill the light it's right back to dimmer, pretty impressive and kinda of a no shitter moment that the sensor should be target facing.
5/10 Fired my first 150 rounds and I'm impressed. I found the optic easy to zero, but I did have a dipshit moment on the range. I couldn't get the damn brightness to a setting I like, the auto brightness feature I was so impressed with was no longer working. I figured out in my range bag some buttons got pushed and it was in manual. Ok now what? I fished out the like 40 page instruction book and was able to get it back to auto and lock it in auto. Def a user error, but I'm going to have to at least familiarize myself with the manual as I plan on running this under nods. Not the optics fault at all, but be prepared to do some reading, there are alot of modes and features you can set intentionally or unintentionally.
As far as firing it, groups looked pretty good once zeroed. Next range trip I'll rezero at 25, apparently that's mo betta, but I'll check and see how it held at 15 first.
Started at 15 leaning on my range bag
5, 2, 3. Felt pretty dialed in so 1, felt like any error there was most likely me induced so shot a 15 round mag of my carry ammo (Winchester 147+p) at 4. Seemed pretty locked on minus the one low one from me getting cocky and being stupid.
Top two targets were back to range ball trying to come from low ready to one round each. Left to right just trying to track the dot.
Rounds fired as of 5/13 165, no issues to date.
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