Ken
BBI: ...”you better not forget the safe word because shit's about to get weird”...
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Sage Dynamics’ drop tests are truly brutal. Anything that survives his testing should last me for a lifetime.
It is not that I am defending this, or any other Swampfox product. I am committed to the Aimpoint ACRO P-1, with a milled slide that already has an ACRO, and a second ACRO that I later acquired, still awaiting its permanent placement on a weapon. (We stopped going to ranges, when COVID came along, stopping all sighting-in and T&E.)
Retar’d LE. Kinesthetic dufus.
Don’t tread on volcanos!
It's a little too truncated of a summary. He did 4 drop tests and 2000 rounds. On the first, there was a slight delamination crack in the top of the window similar to what happened when he tested the Holosun 507c. Zero was maintained. On the next 2 drops, no further cracking of the glass occurred and zero was maintained. On the fourth and final drop, the glass finally cracked top to bottom, but the glass stayed in the housing, dot was still useable, and zero maintained. He said he wouldn't carry it in a duty capacity but thinks it's fine as a concealed carry optic.
I was baffled because it outperformed the DPP in his previous tests. He also tested it without the steel ironsides shroud to make it a better comparison to optics without one. For some reason I don't understand, in follow up comments he was very negative about them offering the ironsides in the first place.
It's based on his experiences testing optics and what his students, particularly LE students carrying RDS pistols have reported. Details are in his white paper.
Data > belief.
https://1312bba5-e7e7-76e8-1fca-a01b...bb23e912fa.pdf
My agency is requiring shrouds for those using the SIG Romeo1 Pro so not everyone agrees with him. However, "impact" is not the only failure mechanism. Cowan has documented several non-RMR optics on holstered pistols crushed during fights with suspects including some R1P's with the shroud.
Good enough... I haven't read his white paper but I really respect his opinion and his approach. And if he's seen the failures then he has a justified opinion.
My retort however would be in my original statement... "a well designed shroud". If the current shrouds do not properly protect the optic then it's design failure, not a concept failure.
That being said, a shroud is an extra point of failure and increases the size, so the better solution is a drop-proof main housing.
I’ve got a Swampfox Justice with the shroud. I like it but it won’t work in Safariland duty holsters, at least the 6354DO, with the shroud on. Makes the RDS too wide.
Formerly known as xpd54.
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