Hi Jim,
Sight was filed off because it was tearing a hole in my parka pocket.
It's also more fitting with Alaskan metaphors because it's a 357 mag. So if a bear tries to shove it up my ass, it won't hurt as badly.
I reprofiled all that excessive under lug off the barrel, because it was too front heavy.
The sight is a holosun. The mount is an allchin. Sight and mount weighs 2 ounces, which is nothing.
All handgun sights nowadays, are too course. I would miss small game out at 30-40 yds, often.
We don't own rimfires, so with low velocity, fmj ammo, the handgun is the rimfire, and with swift A-frames the home defense, and bear/moose defense.
If i could do it all over, the open emitter reflex has some downsides in an outdoor environment:
When gathering firewood or thrashing brush, dust and debris would get everywhere. Sometimes, the open emitter would get obstructed.
The new aimpoint arco fixes all that:
https://www.aimpoint.com/product/aimpoint-acro-p-1/My first red dot was an eotech holographic weapon sight gifted to me by the Eotech company in 2003. That thing did one year on my m-249 machine gun in Iraq. Never lost zero.
Then, an issued aimpoint the second tour
Third tour: brand new trijicon acog on a brand new m-4
Never had a failure of a red dot, until I mounted a burris fast fire 3 on my 357 mag.
That pos lost zero within 100 rounds of light ammo.
Go with the aimpoint......