KAC Micro 200-600m Rear Flip Sight - User's reviews and comments

BenL

BenL

BANNED
BANNED
BANNED
EE Expired
Rating - 97.3%
36   1   0
Location
West of some, East of others - Canada
Specifically looking for user's reviews of the KAC micro 600m flip up sight.

micoflipuprearsight_25650.jpg


http://www.knightarmco.com/portfolio/micro-rear-flip-sight/?cate_cm=military&term=sights-military&features=micro-rear-flip-sight

- How are the adjustments of the sight? Positive, solid clicks?

- It's not spring loaded, but that's fine with me.

- How is the sight picture? It only has a small aperture peep hole (for 200m) in comparison to others (ARMS, Troy, etc have two different apertures).

- How are they in low light? Again, considering you only have the small aperture to use and there's no tritium on these.

- Pricing; they aren't cheap, but the rear sight seems to offer distance adjustment that takes out holdovers out of the equation.

Darren - Please chime in as well from your perspective and your customers who may not be on here.
 
Last edited:
I have a few of these:

Very positive clicks on adjustments. firm, but still easy to adjust.
Sight picture is fine. You do not notice the small aperture
Same in low light as any BUIS w/out tritium
Having windage/ elevation on the rear sight is a bonus. Based on 20" or 14.5" barrels, zero it at the 25m mark on the rear drum, then you will be have a very close POA, POI over the ranges on the drum. At 200 You are pretty much set for 50-200m. Of course shorter barrels will have different POI over range.
 
its like evything else KAC its perfect, i dont like to call it a BUIS, as its more then that, its a set of iron sights.
the click ajustments work well, but ive only uesed them at 100M and in
bbb
 
KAC Micro 600m Rear Flip Sight - User's reviews and comments

The biggest downfall is that they are easy to knock back down...amd during a "combat"(if you do get into one), one less piece to worry goes a longggggg way.

Same with MBUS. I'd go for ones like Troy which locks when its up. $0.02
 
My personal thought is they are one of the best folding sights on the market currently.
They do everything an A2 sight will do in a very tight package (with the exception of the larger aperture which I find superfluous anyhow). Adjustment is positive and the aperture is usable. I've used these sights on 5.56 and 7.62 guns from 100-500m. As can be imagined, the come-up for 300, 400, & 500 were not exact with the ammo I generally use, but very close and perfectly suited for a battle sight (I'm guessing these are set for use with M855 with a 20" barrel?)
One of my biggest beefs with the Troy's and similar is the larger aperture needing to be set on folding (and thus on presentation of the sight). In all my time of using sights, I have never felt the need for using the larger aperture, even in low light.
 
Love mine. It is incredibly solid and low profile. Very well made.

You can find the USMC version on eBay for under $60. Apparently KAC supplied a boat load under contract and they somehow ended up getting sold off in bulk at a government auction.

Or, some claim that they are stolen government property.

I don't know which version is true, but there is a seemingly endless supply of them on eBay and none have been reported to be "fake" or "replica".
 
Last edited:
Random Letters said:
Love mine. It is incredibly solid and low profile. Very well made.

You can find the USMC version on eBay for under $60. Apparently KAC supplied a boat load under contract and they somehow ended up getting sold off in bulk at a government auction.

Or, some claim that they are stolen government property.

I don't know which version is true, but there is a seemingly endless supply of them on eBay and none have been reported to be "fake" or "replica".
Click to expand...

I just bought one too, can't wait to test it out..
 
Farmboy said:
Those ones on ebay are stolen property.

On top of that they are breaking US export laws.
Click to expand...

I will assume that you know, being a distributor for KAC, but I've never seen any proof that they are in fact stolen. Just KAC reps saying "we don't sell the USMC branded sights to the public". Which, of course, doesn't mean that the original story that I heard about the government auctions isn't true.

I personally don't mind if a seller wants to break the US export laws. It's not up to me to enforce them, and I am not personally bound by them.
 
Random Letters said:
I personally don't mind if a seller wants to break the US export laws. It's not up to me to enforce them, and I am not personally bound by them.
Click to expand...


Wow... Great attitude...
What do you think will happen if the US decides to make things even harder for us because of seller not following the laws?
The entire firearm community will pay the price because of attitude like yours...
There are companies that pay premium $$$ IOT get us stuff like these, and not only Canadian companies but Brownell's and others too.
Maybe the US should just completely shut down their export for private sale of weapon components to prevent illegal activities. :(

To get back on topic: love my KAC BUIS.
It is without doubt, better made than my Troy, and the troys a very good in my book.
 
I have enough laws to concern myself with inside my own country. I'm not about to spend my time on those that don't apply to me. But you go ahead and do what you please.

CZ85Combat said:
Wow... Great attitude...
What do you think will happen if the US decides to make things even harder for us because of seller not following the laws?
The entire firearm community will pay the price because of attitude like yours...
There are companies that pay premium $$$ IOT get us stuff like these, and not only Canadian companies but Brownell's and others too.
Maybe the US should just completely shut down their export for private sale of weapon components to prevent illegal activities. :(
Click to expand...
 
Take it for what you will but I just don't like rear tritium on anything that sits close to my eye. The dots tend to blur a lot unless they're farther away like an AK/VZ or pistol etc. Kac micro rear sight is on my hit list but unfortunately I have nothing useful to add to this thread regarding them.
 
Hilo71 said:
I have a few of these:

Very positive clicks on adjustments. firm, but still easy to adjust.
Sight picture is fine. You do not notice the small aperture
Same in low light as any BUIS w/out tritium
Having windage/ elevation on the rear sight is a bonus. Based on 20" or 14.5" barrels, zero it at the 25m mark on the rear drum, then you will be have a very close POA, POI over the ranges on the drum. At 200 You are pretty much set for 50-200m. Of course shorter barrels will have different POI over range.
Click to expand...

They are going to go on a 14.5" Adcor upper and its one of the reason why I was looking at them seriously.
 
Random Letters said:
I will assume that you know, being a distributor for KAC, but I've never seen any proof that they are in fact stolen. Just KAC reps saying "we don't sell the USMC branded sights to the public". Which, of course, doesn't mean that the original story that I heard about the government auctions isn't true.

I personally don't mind if a seller wants to break the US export laws. It's not up to me to enforce them, and I am not personally bound by them.
Click to expand...

Lets try and keep it about the sights and not if CBSA will or will not give a flip about it if they make it out of the US, but get picked up through the mail scan.

Tks
 
I never knew this but it is not KAC's fault and the amount of corruption that goes on in US government a few inexpensive things like KAC rear sights should be the least of there concern anyways...As for CBSA I don't think they care about this, it's nothing special just rear sights for a non regulated item that offers old technology, hardly a concern or any reason to hold someone's purchase. now if they were in fact sold legally at an auction from the US Mil dumping them off then how is that illegally ???


That being said I can't wait to get mine, I love all things KAC and they are always at the apex......of Tier Zero....lol
 
I'm actually not the one who brought export laws into it. I simply pointed out that the laws are not ours. But I suppose you don't want to leave your condescending replies for a sponsor.

Best of luck with your BUIS.


BenL said:
Lets try and keep it about the sights and not if CBSA will or will not give a flip about it if they make it out of the US, but get picked up through the mail scan.

Tks
Click to expand...
 
We sold over 1/2 Million to the USMC, the USMC has NCIS investigating the loss/theft of over 25,000 of these, including a shipment of the last 27,000 where a box of 5,000 was stolen off the dock from Albany GA.

The USMC one are Stolen US Property.

We (KAC) have said than on every forum, and Darren said it above, they are stolen.


They are specifically NOT lock up, as BIS tend to snap if dropped when in a locked position.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom