I don't necessarily buy into a notion that Chinese need to deconstruct or steal US tech, not in the context of RDS. Feature sets that they have made available on their dots were ahead of that US or Western companies offer, and many are still not available on Trij or Aimpoint etc.
I prefer to buy US made but I'll buy what's the best for the intended role. SRO is my go to gaming optic but I have no interest in RMR HD. No 5-6 MOA dot, takes more space on the slide, glass closer to ejection port, access to battery suboptimal, and I don't even use auto adjust.
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I have a lot of the same problems with footprint and design of the RMR HD and wouldn't really buy one. I'm more using it as an example of an American optic that has actually surpassed Holosun in one area. On not using auto adjust, I think a lot of us don't use it because it's never worked right. If it does work right and presents you with the right brightness level in any lighting situation, that trend will change in a hurry. A lot of us won't be exposed to a superior auto adjust right now because the RMR HD costs a healthy kidney, so we have to take it from reviews that it really has been solved. That is something that has been consistent in the reviews of the RMR HD. Holosun will probably present this technology in an affordable format pretty soon. Vortex will have it in their red dots in 2030 going by their release schedule.
As I type this, it's odd that I have a hard time with red dot costs when I own 2 rifle scopes that cost over $1000 each.
This was where I fell on it. I get it, I don't like funneling money to Chinese based companies and anyone that's spent more than about a week in the gun world knows where Holosun comes from. That said, Leupold wasn't exactly knocking it out of the park and my budget is focused on, what I consider, more important things than buying gun stuff. I'm not exactly at a point where I can drop Trijicon RMR HD and Aimpoint Acro money for the pistols I've got that are going to have dots on them with the features I'd like (the circle dot reticle seems to work a lot better for me than just a dot at this point in my dot journey, so that further limits the options) just on a whim.
I completely understand wanting to buy American and encouraging it. That said, in the firearms industry, I think there would be a lot of pearl clutching if people saw behind the curtain and where a lot of "high end" stuff is either currently OEM'd or has been OEM'd in the past. High end and "Made in America" companies sourcing stuff from India, China, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, etc., etc. was not uncommon. Additionally, there are only so many places that are making emitters for the red dot world so there's another limitation to the "Just buy an American made dot," argument.
And, to be honest, having people like this Vermillion China guy, Tasker, and Vdev equivocating buying a Holosun with some sort of treasonous activity is just as tiresome as the other right wing garbage and hyperbole that I've almost completely tuned out of and why, outside of this forum, I've pretty much stopped paying attention entirely to the Gunternet.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
Disclaimer: I have previously worked in the firearms industry as an engineer. Thoughts and opinions expressed here are mine alone and not those of my prior employers.
I think the question can be summarized into a simple ethical dilemma:
Holosun currently has the best red dot technology overall (debatable, but let's go with it), but has direct ties to the Chinese government and their R&D benefits the military of said government directly. The American shooting community's direct feedback greatly accelerates product improvement far beyond what could happen in that country alone.
There are American or American ally made optics that are durable for serious use, but lag behind Holosun in some key areas that are important for shooters choosing their optics. One of the most important is cost, something that I think shooters get gaslit on quite a bit in this community.
Capitalism says the smart buy is Holosun.
Patriotism says the only buy is Trijicon, Leupold, Aimpoint, or Steiner.
Capitalism produces prosperity better than any other system of trade overall, and competition makes everything better. Another point worth noting is that the PRC isn't getting better optics than we do out of this deal, they are getting the same optics we get access to.
I don't agree that the phone analogy is a false equivalency. If someone spun up a US factory to produce the equivalent of the best Chinese produced smartphone, and it cost $5000, people are still going to gravitate towards the Chinese made smartphone because only a very small percentage of the population can afford to pay extravagant prices in the name of ideology.
It seems to me this battle has to be fought at the ballot box to reverse the insanity that causes this problem to begin with. Picking and choosing what products you take a stand on feels like tail chasing and smelling your own farts.
I'm struggling with the answer on if buying Chinese produced optics from Vortex is a workaround if they catch up with Holosun in the next couple of years. Vortex is an American company through and through. PA can fall into this category too. Swampfox is no better than Holosun, they are owned by the Chinese OEM and put on a "'Merica!" front with their funding and hiring.
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Yup. For over over a decade I checked numerous gun blogs daily (from Soldier Systems to TFB to Ammoland to The Shooting Wire), was on several forums, listened to a whole bunch of podcast (was a devoted P&S listener), read countless gun books (from Chinn and Hatcher to design guides from Rheinmetall) and a whole bunch of other gun nerd stuff.
Then, the last day I badged out of a firearms manufacturing facility, I just checked out and didn’t give a damn about any of it anymore. There was definitely a weight lifted off my shoulders.
Last edited by ragnar_d; 03-28-2024 at 04:50 PM.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
Disclaimer: I have previously worked in the firearms industry as an engineer. Thoughts and opinions expressed here are mine alone and not those of my prior employers.
Could Holosun be so designated by the US government?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/nationa...nd-us-8a0c3872
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.