Aimpoint Pro, User Review
That is a wonderful red dot bezel that offers exceptional shooting performance on the range. It’s ultra top quality and easy to sight in and utilize. That is a brand new design with adjustments to the caps which cover the height, wind and battery compartments. There are several goods and some bad changes. The keeper strap can be changed for this newer design. The height and drifting hats are now the same they put on the army Aimpoint versions. The caps are both slotted and easy to remove using a coin just as a quarter to tighten them down or to remove them.
The three cushioned rubber design keeper strap is fully gone, and there are smaller rubber keeper straps attached at the windage and elevation caps so that whenever you remove them they just put on the side while you make your adjustments and that is a great change. Again I simply used a quarter. The battery compartment cap can be changed with a knurled edge so that you can unscrew it easily, but there’s no strap. I was so upset I called Aimpoint plus they told me that no one ever loses their battery cap cover. This is BS, and I could see people in the range, outdoors or at the army losing the cap and the Aimpoint Pro sight is no longer working.
Heck, I tightened the battery cap tight, and it lost only from rifle vibration. That is a flaw IMHO of their design plus they probably saved a nickel. It requires a strap, and that’s my only complaint about the scope. This is an expensive bit of hardware plus it requires a safety belt on the battery cover. I looked at Aimpoint and Eotech, and I went with Aimpoint since I liked the quality better. The red dot is a two MOA red dot, and it allows for precise targeting. Even when utilizing a 3X multiplier the point remains modest, and it does not occlude your target downrange while you’re shooting.
I love that the battery has a battery life of 3 years when left on all the time. That’s on level 7 that is good for many shooting conditions. That is amazing. It’s intended for law enforcement, and many individuals use it as it’s ready. Grab your rifle and lift it up to your eyes and the view is on. The red dot has 10 degrees of brightness, and in 9 and ten you may get some red comments into the range. The bottom four degrees are intended for use with night vision optical devices. Level 7 has been shown on the dial of a rheostat with a white dot which aligns up with a white dot on the battery compartment.
The range comes along with flip-up rear and front covers. The rear cover has a clear center so you may use the scope with the cover down, but the front range is strong plastic. Are your ready for some magical? Grab your rifle and a sight through it with both covers closed. Yes, closed. View down the field with both eyes open like you must do. The right eye sees a red point from the inside cover of the scope, and your left eye sees down the field the target and the red dot is imposed onto the target.
What’s that done? Your brain transfers the red dot position into your field of vision, and it’s dead on true. Even with the lens cap closed the view functions. In conflict, police situations and the defense of the house, you might not remember to turn on a red dot or flip up the covers. With the Aimpoint Pro, the view is already on, and you may shoot with the covers down! This enables for an extremely fast sighting of a target even when you forget to open the lens caps and then turn the unit on.
The sight comes along with a top quality mount which has a massive tool-less knob on the side for your mounting to your rifle’s railing. The knob is torque limiting and as you choose the location on your railing that you would like to use and after that tighten the knob until it clicks three times and it’s tight. After 200 rounds in range, I turned the knob, and it readily clicked again so following a great deal of use you need to check the tightness of the scope. I flip up my Vortex 3X range, and I sight throughout the rear lens cap when it’s down.
The range has rather great lens caps on it plus they’re spring loaded, and a small push plus they pop up. The Aimpoint has no magnification, and it’s perfect to co-register with your iron sights. In my case, I mounted a Vortex 3X range On the railing, and I do not have sufficient space for a Magpul flip up sight. With the scope flipped up the Aimpoint is fantastic for a close fight with easy target acquisition. With the scope down you’re deadly accurate with your shots at long range. I was shooting five shooter patterns within a ¾, of an inch spread while standing up with my one arm resting on the bench top in range. I was shocked.
This is mill quality. The lenses are recessed for protection and also to prevent getting finger prints on them. The lenses are coated, and the inner area is purged and full of inert dry gas to prevent fogging of the lens on the interior. It’s also water-proof to 150 legs of submergence. I will not go swimming with my rifle, but it’s wonderful to know that the rain won’t bother the red dot view. Before I went to the stove, I used my SightMark laser cartridge and sighted from the Aimpoint scope. That gets me in the newspaper. In the scope, it was then easy to see in the eye of the bull and also keep designs.
In my video, I display the red dot on level 7 settings and on level 10. Also, I show my working targets from the scope. This is a fantastic product with superior functionality for me. I’m 65 years old and taken these targets standing up. The Aimpoint sight made each of the gaps and I recommend it highly. I rated it at five stars. I liked this optic so much that I went back and purchased a second one for another rifle.