NcSTAR Red Dot Sight TACTICAL RED DOT WITH 4 DIFFERENT RETICLES/BLACK

This is an update as of 5/22/11. I went to the range yesterday to try out the ncstar red dot. I had to stay away from it for a while because I had trouble sighting in when I got it a few mos back. The sight worked pretty darn good. I used a 13" target. I was sighted in at 25 yrds from a couple months ago. At 25 yrds I shot bulls eyes, one shot on top of the other, 50 yrds bulls eye 1 1/2 group, 100 yrds after one try started hitting within 8" groups, & rapid fire still staying on target in 8" grouping. Running and shooting & hitting on the target. After this I would say the sight is worth it. If the sight holds up thru the yrs it will be great to have. I've never used an eotech so I can't compare. I kept up the original post as follows.First review was as follows: I put this sight on my ar-15. This sight took way to much effort to sight in. The clicks are difficult to feel. The instructions are in adequate and therefore live one guessing about sighting-in. The sight comes with a small jewelers screw driver, there is no reference to this in the instructions. There appears to be no place to use it on the sight. It takes a very close look at the sight to figure out where to use the screw driver, and you need a flash light to see the screw heads to boot. The screws are locking screws for the sight adjustment allen screws. When at the range I was adjusting the sight not even knowing there where set screws. I have no idea if I was working against the screws in anyway, or if the was any damage.I have no idea of how often this sight will need to be re-adjusted. I have a feeling, via lack of trust in this sight, that it will have to be adjusted fairly often. If this is so the sight will be more hassel than it's worth even at the low price of $30 +. It has been a headache, and it has cost a lot of ammo.I went to the range with this sight twice. I first time not knowing about the set screws. I don't recall how well it sighted the first time. I believe it did ok. The 2nd time I used a 12x12 target, with inch increments. I sighted in at 50 yards it took 13 tries to get good groups; one in the bulls eye, one in the ten spot, one on the line of the 9 & 10, all with in about 1 1/2 inches. I'm sure there was operator error, and misinterpretations of the scant instructions, but for the most part the problems above mention were directly related to poor instructions, and the difficultly adjusting the adjusting screws, and also trying to figure out how to work with SET SCREWS, to loose they could fall out, to tight they could strip out, and it is hard to get a feel for these little, hidden screws.With the red dot, at a 100 yds I hit one on the 10, one on the 6 spot and one off the target. Call it an 8" group. As I recall, as I look at the 100 yrd target, I did better with the Iron Sight, maintaining 2 1/2" groups, about 3 1/2 inches high, as would be expected zeroing at 25 yards. Iron flip up Sight, UTG, were all on target, good 2 1/2 inch groups. Everything was done from a bench with sand bags under the front grip, and the butt stock resting on sand bags. There was recoil, and muzzle rise. A better test would be a rifle vise.I wouldn't really recommend this sight. I would rather send it back, but I am torn between taking back to the range to see if it will stay sighted in, and seeing if it was me that was the problem, or just going through the hassle of returning it. If it does not hold zero it would not be worth having for sure. And if I'm within the return time frame I believe I will return it.I would have given this red dot one star except that it does hit the target as I have said. But at a cost of way to much time to sight, and way to much ammo for the sighting operation. If I used a hundred rounds that would be $40. You would be far better off spending the extra $40 plus the purchase price of $30 and by a more expensive sight. But any new sight needs to have easier adjustments that can be done quickly, and have good instructions.I was going to buy the red laser sight, but the adjustment looked equally as time consuming. The pain is not worth the experience of using the laser.

I got my sight very quickly and so far as worked fine except for what I think is parallax issues when I am shooting. It was kind of hard to get sighted in because i am not really sure exactly what the set screws do. I got the sight mounted, then bore-sighted, then i locked only one set screw in ( didn't know there was 2). Anyway, when I screwed in the set screw it threw my red dot off by two feet. So after that I had to just do my best to compensate, then I adjusted the sight with the set screws locked in. If the sight will still adjust with the set screws in, then how much are they really doing? Either way, it seemed to work fine and I eventually got it sighted in at 50 yards and my family was able to get about 3-4 in groups. I did have problems myself with what i think was parallax. My family was getting a different poi on target. I was having to hold the rifle a little differently for me to see the red dot, and i guess that changed where i was hitting. Here is my set up. On the Mosin Nagant you can remove the old rear sight (which had to be ground and pounded off because of solder) and use the original mount (3/8 weaver?) to put a new picatinny rail adapter on to mount your sight. FYI- crcooktube has a video he posted with the same set up on youtube. With this set up, the sight is a little high and you will either get a chin weld or have your face not touching the rifle (like my family had to do). My chin had to be on the rifle to see the dot in the middle of the sight. One of the Monte Carlo stocks would probably be good for this problem. Overall, i don't know why I had to look threw the sight differently. My best guess is that it has to do something with my glasses. I'm guessing it would work if I sight in the rifle just for myself, and how I see the dot to get consistent groups. Next trip to the range I think I will go alone and take a much larger piece of cardboard so I can test where I am hitting when I move my head to different positions.The sight was holding zero even through about 50 hard-kicking Mosin rounds. I liked the reticule choices, the simple dot was as small as i had hoped and I didn't switch off that for fear of losing zero. I think the reticule will be visible on all but the brightest of days; I didn't have any problems but it was cloudy. Overall, I think this sight is a great value as long as it continues to work.

haven't had a chance to try it out yet but I am pleased with the look and it seams to be very solid can't wait to try it out