Originally Posted by
stomridertx
I have a 16" AR setup with a Vortex Razor Gen II-E 1-6 in a Warne X-Skel mount, and I'm contemplating setting up an offset red dot for T&E to see if I would like it. It seems like going with the lightest weight dot optic would make the most sense as the Razor + Warne mount is already around 28 oz on the rifle. This means an open emitter dot most likely with an RMR footprint would be the logical choice. One thing that I haven't seen addressed in any research is the fact that the controls for brightness are on the side of the optic, and with the optic offset from the scope pretty closely, are these controls actually accessible? This seems to be an even more prominent issue on the Arisaka mount that allows the optic to cant at 35 degrees. It seems to make more sense to me to go with a T1 footprint optic that has buttons on the top or right side, but even though those are relatively light weight, they are more than twice the weight of the minature open emitter optics. I'm sure there are many shooters here running an offset dot that can tell me if this is a non-issue or something easily worked around.