Last year I purchased a Sig Romeo4T Pro as my entry into the world of dot sights. I was pretty taken with it at the time and I thought I’d revisit it since some time has now gone by.
Still think it’s great. I havent turned it off since I got it. It sits on top of my MP5A2 clone and its still functioning on the original battery. The ‘shake awake’ feature has performed as advertised – when I put the gun in the rack, the sight turns itself off after a couple minutes. When I pick it up the scope exits its sleep mode and is on. What this means is, I don’t ever need to turn the thing on or off. Just leave it on and when I put it down it’ll go to sleep and save battery life, and when I pick it up it immediately comes back on ready to use…no switches to fumble with. The 9mm in a carbine like this isn’t exactly a long-range cartridge so the lack of magnification isn’t, in my opinion, an issue for this particular type of gun and it’s particular anticipated use.However…I can ring the plates at 100 yards with it, so there’s that.
I’ve shot it a bunch and am still very pleased with it. So much so, in fact, that I’m gonna be picking up another one or two for some other longarms.
However, I decided to bump up a notch and get a Romeo8T. I’m gonna mount that on my JAKL and see how I like it.
So far, I’ve been pretty pleased with the SIG dots. And by the way, Palmetto has announced they are working on a .308 JAKL and I am very excited at the prospect.
The Romeo4T, by the way, is apparently what Obi Wan Nairobi used at his shopping mall bullet party. Who knew?
CZ – Did you see Garand Thumb’s overview of the JAKL ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPUJxtA5CQ8 They have nothing but good to say about it.
YeahI saw that. In fact its the same setup I have JAKL/Romeo8. It’s a lovely gun although the F5 stock isnt as rigid as it could be. I threw a Jmac skeleton on there and it was nice but just looked weird with the longer barrel.
SBR it.
Whats that MP5 clone you are using?
Right there on the magwell…PTR 9
This is a good point that every so often we need to reassess the validity of conventional wisdom.
A few years ago there was Aimpoint and Eotech that were good to go. The other various junk was maybe good enough for a kids .22 for casual plinking but not much more.
Now Sig, Holo Sun, Primary Arms and probably some others seem to be making pretty legit sights in the $200-300 price range.
What a time to be alive!
I caught the Sig Romeo5 on sale for about a hundred dollars years ago, bought three of them and they are still going strong. Tested one out just the other day on a newish AR and it is working perfect with the original battery. Bought some back up batteries just in case.
Midwayusa has a great search function ‘percent discount’. Here’s what comes up for the red dots. I’ve found Burris to be a good product and with 63% off a great price. Buy low, sell high and only suckers pay full retail.
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1022350085?pid=394348