Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:40 pm
Looking at the system closely I could probably use the whole thing as a hammer and be Ok. On the other side, it's meant for shoe sales people like Zee that can break hammers so there is a certain level of "comfy" that goes with that. My EPS has never failed but I can't help but think, "Chinese Made" every time I look through it.
Now for a civilian looking to vigorously exercise a gun for PD or HD purposes those other sight with the bitty screws will probably work forever without issues. My 48 with the Holosun Closed Emitter EPS is still going strong after a few years now with zero signs of potential failure or loosening so I don't lose much sleep over it. . .
In one of his books on the history of the 1911, Patrick Sweeny wrote words to the effect of:
"In 1986, when faced with the problem of a piece of broken slide flying off the frame into the shooter's face, Beretta redesigned their slide so the broken piece couldn't leave the frame.
When faced with the same problem in 1907 John Browning redesigned the slide so it couldn't break".
That notion is basically what's at the center of my thoughts on red dot mounting systems, and it's a big part of why I was so resistant to them initially - "
We spent a hundred years evolving these pistols to the point where you can drop them in a swamp for a week and they will come up shooting, and now you're telling me you want your sights to be depending on glass, gears, circuit boards, and batteries with a couple of tiny screws that look like they were holding the back plate on your watch to keep it all together???"
My partner & I have been dealing with a number of different guns, optics, and mounting systems, and we've arrived at a system where we're combining a couple different types of threadlocker, micro torque wrenches, and a 24 hour cure period before we shoot them. Even then, we still get some of them working loose - either at the plate to slide or the plate to optic junction. There's also a fair bit of head scratching to figure out stuff like: "These six optics use the same mounting plate, which includes six different lengths of screws to account for the different deck heights. . ." Then there's making sure your right side plate screw is the one short enough not to bind up your gun's extractor hardware. . .
Essentially, my gripe to the industry is that it's at a point where a specialist like me, who's paying job it is to install it right, still has to apply a fair bit of study and concentration to keep from getting it wrong. And even when done right, it's still not as failure-proof as we need it to be. The end-users doing the work? Ummmm. . .no. Aimpoint has a fair understanding of what it takes to be "Marine-proof" and the COA looks like a good start in the right direction - we'll see.
But again, more on the .22.
