Shield Sights SIS

In my fairly lengthy attempt to get my hands on just about every half-ass reasonable refelx sight on the market, I looked at a lot of different red dot sights: Holosuns of all sorts, Hi-Lux MM2, Shield RMS and SIS, Aimpoints of many flavors, Trijicon MRO, Sig Romeo4, Leupold LCO and Deltapoint, Doctersight 3, Docter Quicksight, Meosight III, MeoRed, Vortex Razor, Strikefire and Sparc AR, and probably a few others I can't think of off hand.  

Generally, all were perfectly usable and even inexpensive ones were very serviceable.  However, the more expensive ones are better and Shield SIS is my favourite overall (with HiLux MM-2 being my favourite of the budget red dots).

Here is the article: http://opticsthoughts.com/?p=2040

ILya

Good review. I might pick up one this year. Feel like I'm cheating on Aimpoint, I must admit.    

To clarify: I replace batteries once a year, so that is how often I expect to use the battery tray feature.  The gun that the RMS sits on is shot once a week or so.  That is not as much as I would like, but that's all I have time for. 

ILya

Yeah, that wasn't very well phrased on my part.

With Tangent Theta, if you like the turrets in TT315M, you should really try the turrets on the 5-25x56 some time.  It is a somewhat different design.

ILya

Ilya,  to clarify, I have the TT315P, not the M, and love the turrets.  It was out again this weekend and I really, really like this scope.  With the ARD off and a white phos clip-on, I could easily engage targets 24 hours a day.

The RMS is still in the wring-out phase, but more to come.

Here is a bad pic down the sights.

Mostly.

But you see that the sight is designed to allow use of standard irons in the event of sight failure.  Which I like immensely.

That helps override some of my concerns about its durability.

A quick update.

I continue to pour rounds through my RMS-equipped pistol and I like it allot - enough to move the RMR off my carry pistol and replace with an RMS.

As said (and shown) above, if the optic fails, sights are still there doing their thing, so an optic failure isn't as catastrophic as it would be if the optic precluded use of irons.  And I hate suppressor-height sites, they chew up holsters and shirts and generally excel at pissing me off.

If you want a 4MOA RMS, everyone seems to be out, except Shield proper.

The dot is visible from in front of the weapon; however, it is a handgun, if I am pointing it at you, the hole beneath the optic should be of much more concern than the tiny, dim red light you see.  It isn't bright, but it is there.

More to follow.