Front face of sight has diamond tread pattern for racking slide. The dot is super bright! There have been some mentions of refresh rate. You get a sturdy well built optic with a company that stands by their product like no other.

Top load battery is amazing! The included tool is nice. Window and strength like a rmr looks good and functions great. I like everything about it except it's shut off feature realistically if you carry this on an edc it's probably never going to shut ...  Read More

Vortex is very good about customer satisfaction so if it breaks, they will for sure replace. Best budget option out there for the money. Recommend for ccw.

The lock button is also the brightness up button and sticks outside the frame. The battery life is way way below the average for similar models. The laser itself has too many lines and has a big red outline making the laser have a starburst look.

Parallax is good and overall quality appears top notch. All perform flawlessly. Not a deal breaker for the price.

The qd mount, while not of the locking variety, sits very tight on the rail and flush with the sight and weapon. Elevation/windage corrections screws are recessed slightly into the sight body to prevent inadvertent change.

Since i honestly can not believe there are people out there with firearms who think out the box throw reticle has nv night vision.

Probably would make no difference in hight light situations. If you sight this in and move your leaver to change optics it will no longer be sighted in. The nv function does not work.