Marstar OPT-034 Holo/Reflex Sight - Anyone try one of these yet?
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canucklehead
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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If you can find a way to MOUNT it on the CZ858, let us know! Nobody so far has produced (I mean, purchased installed and reviewed for CGN!) a solid and price effective mount.
$51 from jackyiscxd (member on here) on his e-bay store. http://stores.ebay.ca/1337Tactical_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQdptZ0QQftidZ2QQtZkm
I have a couple of his aimpoint clones and they are wonderful. Most feedback on that hakko clone has been poor though.........
I have a couple of his aimpoint clones and they are wonderful. Most feedback on that hakko clone has been poor though.........
Here's my review of the Target Sports JH-400 (from EBay).
This is the same Holosight as the one from Marstar http://www.marstar.ca/optics/reflex-sight.htm
or the one that fellow gunnutz Jackyiscxd is selling in the Exchange Forum.
I've put the sight on my C7A1 + M203 on a live fire MOUT/FIBUA training at Fort Drum (spring 2005).
First thing I noticed is that parallax is "corrected" , but I would need a true target shooting session to confirm this.
The sight base did came loose, after firing only 75 rounds of 5.56mm and about 20 rounds of M203 ...but I suspect the handling and transport the be partly responsible for the base looseness. No need to mention the zeroing was completely off
So the base screws definitely need Loctite in order to staw put.
Notice that in the box came a very small screwdriver. Since only the hex tool is needed to adjust the elev./windage screws, I wondered what the screwdriver was for. In fact, if you look closely on the right side, there's two tiny holes in which resides screws. After disassembling completely the holosight, I found out these are actually set screws that lock in place the clicking elev./windage hex screws. So that's what the small screwdriver is for. However, when you tighten those set screws, it unfortunetaly drives off the reticule from your zero ! So the only way I could zero the sight, was to tighten the hex wind. or elev. screw SIMULTANEOUSLY with its proper set screw... and that's a pain in the ass, but ultimately effective. On the next day, I didn't fire at all, but the sight base stayed very solid.
Apart from that, I found that the highest brightness setting is not strong enough for bright sunshine... so the use of back-up iron sights is mandatory in these conditions. Luckily, you can co-witness the reticule with the iron sights.
The whole day, I was switching on & off the sight to preserve the battery, but it was dying on me in late afternoon. The reticule just fades away slowly, which is good in comparison with it turning completely off. But battery lasting only 6-8 hours of continuous use is clearly not a good aspect for a "working" gun (i.e. hunting, LE or mil.)
So in the end, this holosight is really not "milspec" grade, but a cheap alternative to an EOTech. I would suggest you take it apart (with the provided hex tool & screwdriver), look at how it's built (you might want to put a bit of epoxy on the exposed wires underneat) and re-assemble it by tightening all the screws. Zero it by turning the primary and set screws simultaneously.
I also purchased the Aimpoint replica at 90 $ from Jackyiscxd.
Put it in a real ARMS#22M68 w cantilever spacer.
Althought i still have to test it further, i've shot with it for a few hundred rds with my AR15 and it holds up the zero very well. Plus, the red-dot is much brighter than the one on the holosight. No problem in very sunny conditions.
A much better purchase IMHO than this holosight/reflex red-dot.
This is the same Holosight as the one from Marstar http://www.marstar.ca/optics/reflex-sight.htm
or the one that fellow gunnutz Jackyiscxd is selling in the Exchange Forum.
I've put the sight on my C7A1 + M203 on a live fire MOUT/FIBUA training at Fort Drum (spring 2005).
First thing I noticed is that parallax is "corrected" , but I would need a true target shooting session to confirm this.
The sight base did came loose, after firing only 75 rounds of 5.56mm and about 20 rounds of M203 ...but I suspect the handling and transport the be partly responsible for the base looseness. No need to mention the zeroing was completely off
So the base screws definitely need Loctite in order to staw put.
Notice that in the box came a very small screwdriver. Since only the hex tool is needed to adjust the elev./windage screws, I wondered what the screwdriver was for. In fact, if you look closely on the right side, there's two tiny holes in which resides screws. After disassembling completely the holosight, I found out these are actually set screws that lock in place the clicking elev./windage hex screws. So that's what the small screwdriver is for. However, when you tighten those set screws, it unfortunetaly drives off the reticule from your zero ! So the only way I could zero the sight, was to tighten the hex wind. or elev. screw SIMULTANEOUSLY with its proper set screw... and that's a pain in the ass, but ultimately effective. On the next day, I didn't fire at all, but the sight base stayed very solid.
Apart from that, I found that the highest brightness setting is not strong enough for bright sunshine... so the use of back-up iron sights is mandatory in these conditions. Luckily, you can co-witness the reticule with the iron sights.
The whole day, I was switching on & off the sight to preserve the battery, but it was dying on me in late afternoon. The reticule just fades away slowly, which is good in comparison with it turning completely off. But battery lasting only 6-8 hours of continuous use is clearly not a good aspect for a "working" gun (i.e. hunting, LE or mil.)
So in the end, this holosight is really not "milspec" grade, but a cheap alternative to an EOTech. I would suggest you take it apart (with the provided hex tool & screwdriver), look at how it's built (you might want to put a bit of epoxy on the exposed wires underneat) and re-assemble it by tightening all the screws. Zero it by turning the primary and set screws simultaneously.
I also purchased the Aimpoint replica at 90 $ from Jackyiscxd.
Put it in a real ARMS#22M68 w cantilever spacer.
Althought i still have to test it further, i've shot with it for a few hundred rds with my AR15 and it holds up the zero very well. Plus, the red-dot is much brighter than the one on the holosight. No problem in very sunny conditions.
A much better purchase IMHO than this holosight/reflex red-dot.
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300Spartans
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- Canada of course
The price is definitely right.
