![]() ![]() However, despite the fact that we were adjusting the optic correctly, our point of impact continued to shift even further rightwards, and we figured out shortly after that the turrets are actually mislabeled. As one does, we followed the indicated arrows and began turning the windage turret such as to bring our reticle over to the right and get our point of aim to match up with our point of impact. While zeroing the optic, we fired at our steel target and noticed that our rounds were hitting off to the right. What we did have an issue with, however, was the fact that the windage and elevation turrets are inexplicably reversed. It’s kinda nitpicky and you likely won’t notice unless you knew about them beforehand, but we did pick them up when while scrutinizing the Monstrum for review – but again this is an $80 optic. We have no real complaints about the glass itself, but there do appear to be tiny blemishes inside the optic if you really look for them. The reticle itself is a simple circle with a dot at the center – with the outer ring being 24moa at 100 yards. ![]() A bit obvious when they’re side by side.Īs you’d probably expect, the illumination here is also next to worthless in bright conditions, but it does have 5 levels of adjustable brightness in both red and green flavors that might be okay if you’re shooting in overcast or more dim conditions. Which just feels obnoxious and distracting, and may not cowitness with your irons either. The optic’s mount is actually a bit lower profile than everything else in the prism lineup, and I suspect that’s the core root of the issue here.Īssuming you’re throwing this thing on a standard AR-15, the height of the mount is going to ensure that the front of your rail and your weakside hand are going to blurrily occupy the lower third of your field of view. The Monstrum 2x’s distinctive ‘nipple’ reticle. It’s also worth noting that we ordered the 3x from Amazon and were sent the 2x instead, which we were able to verify because the two have completely different reticles. #Primary arms micro prism fullCyclops Gen 2 ShootingĬheck out our full review of the Gen 2 Cyclops where we ran over 1000 rounds at different distances. We had our editor who has a fair amount of astigmatism try the optic and it still appeared crisp. ![]() Cyclops Gen 2 View ThroughĪCSS is one of our favorite reticles…and this iteration continues to deliver. And it comes with 3 night vision modes as well. How about that illumination? Granted we were no longer in the scorching California desert…but it was great. ![]() CQB ready? Read on…īut the new Gen 2 Cyclops blows it out of the water.īuild quality is still superb AND the managed to get it even smaller. We were lukewarm with the first generation of Cyclops with only ok illumination and decent eyebox. We had the opportunity to take some of the most popular models of prism optics from a ton of different price brackets and square them up with each other, and boyyyyyyyy do we have some thoughts. Prism optics definitely have their own cheering section online but keep in mind of these negatives as we go into the hands-on testing section. Price point of “nice” ones are around $250 and in the ballpark of low power variable optics (LPVOs).Illuminated reticles aren’t all day light bright.Not as forgiving parallax and eye relief compared to red dots.A visual representation of what a red dot sight might look like to folks who suffer from astigmatism ![]()
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