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Just wanted to share a little update on my order with Shield. I contacted them and they apologized for the delay and are expediting my order once they have more RMSw bodies. Time quoted on receiving them was the next 3-4 days. They also accepted my request to upgrade to glass on the order. It looks/sounds like they have boat loads of orders to fill but despite how busy they seem they are very responsive to requests and communication. CS is pretty great as I've experienced so far. Thanks again @flyrodr.
I will be very curious how the glass lens option performs. I heard something suggesting it might not be as strong as the plastic lens, although it should be way better in not scratching.
How I clean the current RMS is to use compressed air to remove any loose debris and follow up with a Leupold lens pen.
I am running the 8 moa RMSc on my 43X. I like the large dot with an auto adjust system. This afternoon, I was shooting a 12 inch steel at 110 yards with it, and the dot covered a lot of the target. I think 5.5 moa would be ideal, but still lean towards the 8 vs the 4 for how I use the 43X.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
@GJM, I am most interested in its performance as well. To be quite honest I expect to break the sight. Personally I still don't feel like the red dot is quite there yet anyways. The red dot for me is mostly to evaluate how it might carry, see how reliable it is through heavy training/shooting but above all I am looking at it as a training aid. I have followed a lot of your posts very closely and in listening to what you have said and others I trust I think the red dot will make an excellent training tool for me. I am excited and really hope to have it soon so I can send my slide off to have it cut and mounted.
Last edited by Mike C; 12-05-2019 at 10:03 PM.
Yeah, I think SHIELD advertises the polymer as 10X stronger than glass (I assume that's due to 10X the flex of glass).
However, this glass looks 3.75X as thick as the polymer, so I expect it'll hold its own in everything other than a drop test. I'm hoping it has some kind of tough mineral glass with a sapphire coating. I wonder if we'll see any distortion from glass that thick (and curved). I notice the distortion with RMRs, but not with Holosuns (even though I know there is some).
NOTE: I usually just clean mine with compressed air, and then brush it off with a lens-pen brush. Once every 3-4 months, I'll use ELECTRICAL CONTACT CLEANER WD-40 on a q-tip (advice I got from them), which I roll around on the lens, then use a dry one, and some more compressed air.