Thread: Cheap red dot sights?

Originally Posted by Beavis

Bushnell TRS 25 is the gold standard among the absolute dirt cheap sights.

Holosun is becoming the standard for cheap but good. The Chinese have caught up to Aimpoint in terms of battery life. I have seen mixed but mostly positive reviews on most of their products. If I was in the market for a red dot and I didn't care about branding I would buy one.

I have an Eotech which is a POS. I can't believe people used/use these for actual serious use. I only really like them for that legacy war on terror kind of aesthetic.

Aimpoint would still be the gold standard overall in terms of dead nuts reliability.

To summarize I own - a TRS 25, an Eotech 512 and an Aimpoint T1. I have had trigger time with some others - Vortex SPARC and Strike Fire (you could do worse but also much better for your money, very average sights), Aimpoint M4 (Big, cool that it runs on a AA, expensive and big), Holosun 503( I think? Very nice for the money, gives you basically similar features to a T1 for less money. Solar and battery powered. Eotech rip off reticle is nice).

i just repaired an eotech, to say its mid range in quality would be forgiving. awful POS