Has anybody had a bad Red Dot sight?

[DougB]

I paid about $100 for it (mail order). A black version would have been less, but I wanted "stainless" to match the rifle. I'd pay the $28 (grudginngly - not much of a warranty), if I were confiident they'd really fix it, but I suspect I'd just be "throwing good money after bad". As is, I'll probably tinker with it myself, and if that doesn't work, just eat the loss and get something else.

I'd be very cautious about buying any Tasco optic (especially old inventory).

Doug

 

[armabill]

I had 3 ProPoints and my son has 2 of them. Not any lick of trouble at all except battery failure.

I guess there's good and bad in all products.

 

[444]

I have a Leupold/Gilmore, a Tasco Pro-Point, and an Aimpoint ML2. I have never had any problem with them at all.

I have a friend that loves to buy junk. No matter how many times he has been burned, he still believes in the free lunch. He called me up and asked me what I thought about him mounting a BSA red dot on a 6" S&W revolver in .41 mag. The sight was on sale somewhere for $15. I told him what I always tell him; you are wasting your money and he did what he always does; buys it anyway. It just so happened that I was out at the local gun club shooting when he showed up at the range with his wife and son to sight in his new treasure. On about shot #3 the sight completely came apart. The internal parts were lying on the ground. I stood there biting my lip, turning the other way; everything I could think of but finally I couldn't stand it anymore. I laughed until I had to sit down to keep from falling down. It was funny enough to begin with but after the sight fell apart he got highly P.O. ed because he honestly though he could buy a precision optical instrument for $15 (and two or three people in the marketing chain were making a profit at that price).

 

[Grump]

I looked at two BSA big-can (35mm or bigger) red dots this weekend and passed. Parallax at the trees 150 yards away was more than a foot-'n-a-half when going off-center towards the side with the diode, and almost a foot at the most in an S-curve when going to the 90-degree sides closest to the diode.

How can you zero that?

Didn't bother to get the shop to put batteries in the 25 and 30-mm models on display, so I can't comment on those.

Which red-dot has the least "sunglasses" effect of really dimming the image? I've shot most with an ADCO Mirage with okay results on at .357. No problems, and groups are always tighter than with iron sights, when the ammo is at least as good as 2 inches at 25 yards. But the image is DIM!!!