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I thought I would post up a quick review of this little sight since I haven't seen much about it here. I've been looking at getting an optic for my AR for a while, I'm a fan of the eotech reticle, but like the idea of the LONG battery life available with Aimpoint. I can get an XPS2 for quite a bit less than the Aimpoint once you include the mount, and I had not used the T-1 / H-1 size sight before. All these factors led me to decide to try the Primary Arms gen 2 Micro Dot to see if I like the platform, I have no need for the tacticool killflash. I figure that I can see if I like it and no matter which way I go I can put this on my 10-22 or something. Yes, it's Chinese made crappola, and I do have an issue with that.
I ordered from the Primary Arms website on a Saturday night, the sight was in my hands on Thursday, shipped from TX to CA. As seems to be the norm, great service from Primary Arms. I included in my order the optional mount that provides a 1/3 co-witness. It came to about $114 with shipping. Link to web page.
The was packaged well for shipment and came in a small box which included the sight with base, high mount, lens cover, allen wrenches and instructions. On first inspection the sight seems solid and the mount OK for the money. The mount looks like a quick disconnect type but the design is poor and the instructions call it an emergency release. It looks like the shape of the lever where in cams to the lock position is the culprit. In time I may take a dremel to the area that I think is the issue and see if I can make it function a little better. It does not fit the rail as well as it could, but once I had it sufficiently tight it seemed OK.
The sight is bright and the dot has a nice round appearance, a rough guess puts it about 3 to 3.5 MOA in size. On a very bright day at about 3500' I was using positions 7 or 8 out of 11 with no problems. I had to make only a very slight adjustment to bring the dot to alignment with the front sight post while co-witnessing. Due to the location of the emitter it does block the bottom of your sight picture a bit, but since I would not normally align my irons it's not a big deal. With the initial adjustment done I flipped down the Troy rear sight and proceeded to get some rounds downrange. I immediately discovered that the "quick release" was to loose. Once I tightened the mount adequately it held zero with no issues, but I only fired about 100 rounds. There was nothing special about making adjustments, and as stated they were minor.
In this picture the sight is set on position #5.
With the rifle rested and looking through the sight while moving my head around, it seems that the sight is fairly free of parallax, except when you get the dot into the upper 1/3 of the sight. With the dot left, right or down it seemed to hold POA, but as you get that dot high in the tube the dot climbs up quite a bit. I didn't test carefully, but I would have to guess that the dot moves up at least 4 MOA by the time it's at the top edge of the tube.
I can't address battery life or durability yet, but others have done so and been pleased. At this point I'm very positive about this sight, easy to use, very visible dot, feels solid, good value.
I ordered from the Primary Arms website on a Saturday night, the sight was in my hands on Thursday, shipped from TX to CA. As seems to be the norm, great service from Primary Arms. I included in my order the optional mount that provides a 1/3 co-witness. It came to about $114 with shipping. Link to web page.
The was packaged well for shipment and came in a small box which included the sight with base, high mount, lens cover, allen wrenches and instructions. On first inspection the sight seems solid and the mount OK for the money. The mount looks like a quick disconnect type but the design is poor and the instructions call it an emergency release. It looks like the shape of the lever where in cams to the lock position is the culprit. In time I may take a dremel to the area that I think is the issue and see if I can make it function a little better. It does not fit the rail as well as it could, but once I had it sufficiently tight it seemed OK.
The sight is bright and the dot has a nice round appearance, a rough guess puts it about 3 to 3.5 MOA in size. On a very bright day at about 3500' I was using positions 7 or 8 out of 11 with no problems. I had to make only a very slight adjustment to bring the dot to alignment with the front sight post while co-witnessing. Due to the location of the emitter it does block the bottom of your sight picture a bit, but since I would not normally align my irons it's not a big deal. With the initial adjustment done I flipped down the Troy rear sight and proceeded to get some rounds downrange. I immediately discovered that the "quick release" was to loose. Once I tightened the mount adequately it held zero with no issues, but I only fired about 100 rounds. There was nothing special about making adjustments, and as stated they were minor.
In this picture the sight is set on position #5.
With the rifle rested and looking through the sight while moving my head around, it seems that the sight is fairly free of parallax, except when you get the dot into the upper 1/3 of the sight. With the dot left, right or down it seemed to hold POA, but as you get that dot high in the tube the dot climbs up quite a bit. I didn't test carefully, but I would have to guess that the dot moves up at least 4 MOA by the time it's at the top edge of the tube.
I can't address battery life or durability yet, but others have done so and been pleased. At this point I'm very positive about this sight, easy to use, very visible dot, feels solid, good value.
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