Aimpoint PRO is this normal or defective?

[jcwatchdog]

My Trijicon MRO has had no glare issues and the only gripe I have is that there are no covers available for the lens'

I like these. They cover the whole thing and are not just caps, but it's a good quality cover.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/322483915203

[readysetgo]

Having talked to people confused what the issue is and read other threads where it's not clear, I made a video:

https://youtu.be/BpNZALfhN8k

That way someone researching this in the future can find it, though I'm pretty sure it'll be rare, I just got unlucky with the Aimpoint.

Cut your nails bro!

Buy American!

[ZombieLivesMatter]

Watched your vid. I'd return it. You got a bad PRO. I'd stick With your EO and spend the PRO money to take your kids to a ball game, LegoLand, D-Land, etc. The reality is: use what you are the most comfortable with, In a high stress situation, It's yourself that will fail before your equipment. But the new CompM4 is a much better red dot. It uses a common AA battery and 80K hour battery life. Nothing wrong with your 512, I'm assuming that you don't take it to extreme environments and if your on target at the range you should be on target at home.

Thank you for that comment, was considering renewing the annual passes for Disneyland, they went from $550 to $1000, ridiculous.

Cut your nails bro!

Buy American!

Haha no kidding but not much time for even maintenance taking care of my 2 year old and 3 month old by myself. But for sure, American! Aimpoint is probably the exception as it has helped countless military men and women protect our country overseas.

My Trijicon MRO has had no glare issues and the only gripe I have is that there are no covers available for the lens'

Hmm if I can get a MRO without the glare I'd be happy, better price than Micro, lighter and longer battery than my Eotech, made in America.

[ILYSB]

This IS Normal, Internal Reflection Off the Internal Laser Assembly

Hey, this is normal, I believe. Mine does exact same thing as your and third Calgunner who posted last month.

I believe it's an internal reflection off the front pelical mirrored/coated glass element. It just a reflection of light that originally bouncing off the rear, internal raised wedge (about 0.6 cm wide) at the back opening of the laser assembly.

If you turn off laser, look inside from front, rearward, you will see an elongated laser assembly opening and at back of that a small piece of aluminum that is slightly angled in relation to tube. (I took about one hour of close examination to figure this out). That slightly angled aluminum piece is kicking off bright light which bounces off front glass element - just as the original forward pointing laser light emitted from said laser assembly - which gives us that nice tiny Red Dot - and is giving you the annoying light "blurb" that we see internally.

You will notice in your photo, this red internal reflection that is visible in your photos and which others have said "is not normal" is exactly 180 degrees opposite the internal laser assembly and the external laser brightness setting dial. The other calgunner with same "problem", reflection is also identically set off 180 degrees. Mine too.

If the problem were due to lens element separation, the pattern would not be set off exactly 180 degrees on 3 separate, randomly sampled optics. This is your best clue.

Hope this helps