The people who own the underlying trademarks and patents worked hard, provided employment, risked their time and money, and are entitled to the rewards.
Those are reasonable options.However, in my opinion, the purchase of counterfeit gear is the equivalent of stealing. Patents and trademarks are personal property.There are many inexpensive sights that are marketed honestly as inexpensive sights. One of the ideals that build this country, and other countries that operate on capitalism, is personal property. I don't know if the controversial part of the knockoff discussion is about the moral and legal angle.This is how I see it. Still wouldn't take this thing to Kandehar though. I don't really do 3gun or anything like that so really all it needs to stand up to is me standing or sitting at the range and shooting, which it has done pretty well considering, and I'm proficient with my irons so worst case I just take it off and trash it.As for holding zero, I only had to zero it twice, once on each rifle, so I'd say that's pretty good. Well I've dropped it a few times on my 10 pound Socom II, although only from about 4 feet onto grass, but then again I never intended to use it for tactical shooting or anything really hard core.
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I definitely be pissed if I paid 400$ for this, but for free I'm very pleased. All in all, I'd say this red dot is worth a few bucks for light duty. Of course the dot is also larger on the fake, but it also has green dot settings which is kind of interesting although I almost never use them.Now, I would never trust my life to this scope, but I trust it enough to have fun at the range.
This means that if the lighting is wrong you will see your own face instead of the target. The only real difference is that the fake has a blue 'tint' to the glass and the close element glass is much more reflective than on the real deal. I was issued a real Comp M4 in the guard and although the quality is not the same, the dot and glass are clear, there isn't any ghosting and it works about the same. It's stood up to 250 rounds of the recoil of my (albiet heavy) rifle and and about 700 rounds on my AR. Now why would someone put a 15$ fake red dot on a 1600$ rifle? Well, mostly because I could and also because real Aimpoints are expensive.So what is it like to use? Well I have to say I actually quite like it. It's difficult to say where and when it was made, but I think China would be a good bet. A friend of mine gave it to me for free because he didn't see any value in it after he got his refund from paypal. So this will probably be a bit controversial and I know that fake optics are a bit of a touchy subject for some, but I thought I'd come from a little bit of a different perspective and talk about actually using one of these fake sights.I've had a fake Aimpoint Comp M2 and mount for about 5 years.
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