Trijicon SRS (Sealed Reflex Sight)

[Jay Cunningham]

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The Trijicon SRS (Sealed Reflex Sight) represents the highest level of performance from a sealed reflex-style sight. Because of its innovative design, the SRS takes up less rail space while maintaining the durability expected from Trijicon. The shorter housing eliminates the tube-effect typical of other sealed reflex sights. Featuring a large 28mm aperture, the Trijicon SRS provides a massive field of view for quicker target engagements. The 1.75 MOA dot is small enough for precision and with 10 brightness settings it can be bright enough for any speed. Finally, the Trijicon SRS features dual power sources — an innovative solar cell assisted by a single AA battery.


I've been evaluating this optic for almost two years.

Pros:
- fantastic, forgiving FOV
- sharp dot
- compact
- QD lever mount is excellent

Cons:
- expensive
- when light hits it just forward from directly above you get internal reflections*
- durability*


The SRS went back to Trijicon for warranty repair after about a year - failure to illuminate.

Trijicon repaired the loose battery connector and also applied an anti-reflective coating (which I assume is standard now) which almost completely reduces the internal artifacts and sharpens the dot up.

Normally I'd just say Aimpoint PRO and drive on, but the SRS is now pretty much everything I ever wanted in a "reflex" or red dot optic - it's killer for my applications. It's the only optic I can mount from my weak shoulder and still keep both eyes open.

REMINDER: If your optic uses a battery to perform it's function, have zeroed BUIS on your carbine.

[TR675]

How is the battery life (asks the guy who has access to Google)?

Let me back up and ask some more intelligent questions.

-Does it work with other brands' magnifiers?

-is the solar panel only a supplement to the battery or will it run the optic if the battery is kaput?

-can you speak to how well it works for folks with astigmatism?

[Unobtanium]

How is the battery life (asks the guy who has access to Google)?

Let me back up and ask some more intelligent questions.

-Does it work with other brands' magnifiers?

-is the solar panel only a supplement to the battery or will it run the optic if the battery is kaput?

-can you speak to how well it works for folks with astigmatism?
I have seen from other sources that the solar panel will power the optic if it is on, and you remove the battery, but if it is off, and the battery is dead/removed, it will not power the optic on.

[Jay Cunningham]

I don't know anything about magnifiers, I don't use them.

The solar panel did not power the optic when mine initially died, presumably due to a loose battery connector.

[Jay Cunningham]

If you're asking about the dot blobbing out... it can do it a little but it's a sharp dot. If you have a bad problem with Aimpoints blobbing out then this might be a little better but I think it's the same basic tech.

[Jay Cunningham]

2647

In action.

[MVS]

I really like Trijicon products but I am surprised by the amount of people I know who have to send their stuff back for warranty work. Mostly on RMR's and a similar problem to what you describe.

[Jay Cunningham]

I don't doubt you, but I've seen numerous issues with Aimpoints and EoTechs also.

[MVS]

I don't doubt you, but I've seen numerous issues with Aimpoints and EoTechs also.

No doubt. I mostly have a lot of experience on the RMR as I used to teach for a company who pushed them heavily so I got to see more of them in class than some.

[Jay Cunningham]

Like I said in my original post: if your optic uses batteries to perform it's function, have zeroed BUIS on the gun.

[LittleLebowski]

I was really surprised by the price (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007USW12A/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B007USW12A&linkCode=as2&tag=ratio07-20) on this. Maybe they will drop prices someday or I can trade into one. Very compelling review, Jay.

[Jay Cunningham]

I'm trying to remember who I bought it from - it was for a much better price than $900 or WTF ever. Still way more than a PRO but not that far off from a CompM4S.

[JHC]

How would you compare the FOV vs the EOTech?

Great to see a review of this relatively seldom encountered optic.

[Jay Cunningham]

FOV is better than EOTech.

[JHC]

FOV is better than EOTech.

Whoa! I had no idea.

[Jay Cunningham]

Caveat: I have no real way to quantify this. Maybe there's a scientific way to measure and compare FOV, but I don't know it.

I've used 20mm and 30mm Aimpoints, EoTechs, various 1-4x optics, and lower end red dots and Eastern European optics.

[KevinB]

You can measure it - just take a sight picture on a target at 100m and have someone mark your left and right of view.

BUT
FOV is really impossible to measure on a 1x sight - as you're shooting it both eyes open - and it is dependant on where your eye is in relation to the sight you want you see in the optic, to me on a CCO optic - I am more concerned about what the optic body obscures on the surroundings.

The only think I liked about the SRS was the dot. It is very crisp

[DocGKR]

At this point in my life, a crisp dot is becoming increasingly important...

[Beat Trash]

A crisp dot has my attention. I have to look through my rear BUIS at the dot on my Aimpoint T-1's and PRO's to get anything approaching a crisp dot.

[Jay Cunningham]

1.75 MOA is nice to zero with too. Just a nice range thing.

[KevinB]

Trijicon has been monumentally unwhelming me recently -- I want T1 size with that dot.
I could give a crap about the photovoltaic recharge panel on top -- just shrink it, or make the ID of the tube larger.