Best bang for my buck Red Dot sight
Ok, I'm on the hunt for some red dot optics for three of my rifles. I have had a few Primary Arms (NON "advanced" cool kid models) that so far have been pretty darn good to me, especially at a nominal $80-90. I had an Aimpoint PRO that I loved a lot, but it was slightly bulky and heavy for my preference. Although I would rock it again. My buddy has an Aimpoint T1 and I love that dot, but realistically, over $600 per red dot is a little bananas considering I really need three as of now.
So, I have been meandering about online looking at dots and started getting wildly confused at what is a decent dot for say like $100-$400 each, with the following points that are the most important to ME in order:
1. Price (30% weight)
2. Battery Life (30% weight)
3. Warranty (25% weight)
4. Size/Weight (15% weight)
So I plugged the ones I have been looking at into a quick spreadsheet and input those four pieces of data in for each one. The additional columns are important to me, but not game changers OR there simply is not enough variance between the dots to justify any additional math or weight to the totals, hence no colors or weights etc. For reference, green is the best, yellow is the middle of the road, and red is on the negative side for me. The final ranking is sorted best to worst based on the aggregated weighted rankings of each data set.
So my question the SET is, is there a red dot that any of you recommend that I should consider that I don't have listed here?
Primary Arms Advanced Micro Dot
Holosun Paralow HS403G
Vortex Sparc AR
Sig Romeo 4
Trijicon MRO
Aimpoint Micro T1
Primary Arms Micro Dot
Vortex Spitfire AR
Aimpoint Patrol Rifle Optic (P.R.O)
Ok, I'm on the hunt for some red dot optics for three of my rifles. I have had a few Primary Arms (NON "advanced" cool kid models) that so far have been pretty darn good to me, especially at a nominal $80-90. I had an Aimpoint PRO that I loved a lot, but it was slightly bulky and heavy for my preference. Although I would rock it again. My buddy has an Aimpoint T1 and I love that dot, but realistically, over $600 per red dot is a little bananas considering I really need three as of now.
So, I have been meandering about online looking at dots and started getting wildly confused at what is a decent dot for say like $100-$400 each, with the following points that are the most important to ME in order:
1. Price (30% weight)
2. Battery Life (30% weight)
3. Warranty (25% weight)
4. Size/Weight (15% weight)
So I plugged the ones I have been looking at into a quick spreadsheet and input those four pieces of data in for each one. The additional columns are important to me, but not game changers OR there simply is not enough variance between the dots to justify any additional math or weight to the totals, hence no colors or weights etc. For reference, green is the best, yellow is the middle of the road, and red is on the negative side for me. The final ranking is sorted best to worst based on the aggregated weighted rankings of each data set.
So my question the SET is, is there a red dot that any of you recommend that I should consider that I don't have listed here?
Primary Arms Advanced Micro Dot
Holosun Paralow HS403G
Vortex Sparc AR
Sig Romeo 4
Trijicon MRO
Aimpoint Micro T1
Primary Arms Micro Dot
Vortex Spitfire AR
Aimpoint Patrol Rifle Optic (P.R.O)
