NinjaMonkey wrote:Very interesting. I seen alot of YouTube vids, none of them stated any failures. I will look in to it. I do know ppl have said thr rmr would fail on pistol so that why they came out with the type 2 rmr. It very surprising to me that vortex viper snd venom would fail even on pistol. I heard good thing about it.
Any MRDS failing on a pistol is not news. Pistol recoil is extremely violent and concussive. No MRDS yet has been 100% reliable on a pistol. Thus far, the Aimpoint Micro is the only optic right now that I have not seen a documented pistol failure from. Unfortunately, the Micro doesn’t fit in a lot of holsters and it’s an unwieldy setup, and it’s not an MRDS. The technology is still in development for a fully reliable pistol MRDS. The upcoming Aimpoint ACRO is promising to be the first MRDS to be fully reliable since it’s been built from the ground-up to go on a pistol, and the design is different from a conventional MRDS by being a sealed/fully housed optic.
The main problem with the Type 1 wasn’t with the optic itself but rather with the battery contact and the type of battery used. There are fixes on the internet to explain it. The Type 2 fixed the issues with the Type 1. Aaron Cowan has put out documents, along with other major names in the shooting world like Dr Gary Roberts, Scott Jedlinski, Steve Fisher, etc. The Trijicon RMR and Leupold Delta Point Pro are consistently ranked as the most reliable and durable optics.
With regard to the Vortex optics, remember that a vast majority of their optics are made on contract in China, Philippines and Japan. I always caution people to be careful about what they read and where they read it; especially with relation to Vortex. Vortex is a good company, but there is a rabid fanboy base that will sing their praises no matter what. It’s the worst I’ve seen for any optics company. I’ve seen more optics failures from Vortex than from any other one singular major optics company (excluding junk companies like Barska and BSA).