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Micro dot sight

Post by gcp » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:09 pm

Hi friends,

A few days ago I mounted on my MarkII a Primary Arms MD-07 red dot. I originally bought this sight for my LMT AR-15, and it worked great on that platform also, but since it's so small and light I thought I'd try it out on the pistol. It's an outstanding fit for the Mark II and helped me shoot it today extremely well. I have no affiliation to PA but I'm so happy with the results I wanted to share this with you, pass on the good results so to speak. I like this sight so much that I'll be purchasing a second for my AR-15, I just hope it too doesn't grow legs again and drift on another of my pistol :oops: .

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Post by blue68f100 » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:52 am

If you have more gun's than sights they seam to move around. All I can say is that the dot sights are great for aging eyes, since I can no longer see iron sights.
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Post by gcp » Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:03 pm

Ah yes, my tired old eyes need all the help they can get and this red dot sure did the trick. Of course a regular scope would probably prove more accurate but it would also be sizeably larger. All in all a good compromise for the mark II.

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Post by charlesb » Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:15 am

I think the dot sights are just as accurate as the 1x scopes, and are much quicker to get on-target.

My son has an H&R Handy-Rifle in .22 hornet that is very accurate with a dot sight.

I bought a B-Square scope mount for my military dress Swedish Mauser that clamps on the rifle's rear sight, without altering or marring the gun. I used that to mount a dot-sight. My daughter used that combo for her first experience with a high-powered rifle. - And her first three shots went into 1", at 100yd.

Lots of guys use them in competitive pistol shooting. They are plenty accurate, but I do wish that there was a way to have variable dot size, as well as intensity.

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Post by blue68f100 » Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:05 am

Some of the dot sights do have different size dots that can be selected. But most will be 3moa as the smallest with a 5-7 as the second size. If I recall the UltraDot has a 2MOA.
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Post by gcp » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:29 am

And as you get older yet the dots appear to be two and not just one so it's still a guessing game. Can't win........

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Post by blue68f100 » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:09 am

Astigmatism problem cause strange things with the dot. As my eyes get tired I see tails coming off the bottom of the dot. I going to have my eyes checked this month for new glasses, to try to loose the tails. I use always use the manual brightness control on my QS. Shooting in a indoor range the auto brightness controls seams to over drive it make the dot larger than it should be.
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Post by bbh791 » Tue May 15, 2012 10:48 pm

Can you post a picture? I am looking for a lightweight red dot to put on a Sig P240 for bullseye. Thanks

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Post by gcp » Wed May 16, 2012 7:29 pm

Here you go. This scope works great!

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Post by jrayb95 » Wed May 16, 2012 9:19 pm

Here is a small red dot on a P229.
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Post by bbh791 » Thu May 17, 2012 3:09 am

Thanks for the pictures guys!

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Post by gcp » Sat May 19, 2012 9:05 am

You are welcome! I am getting ready to order another same red dot for my AR, that's where this one resided originally and the AR's missing it.

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