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Five_Point_Five_Six
No, and I have not had good luck with Motorola phones in the past so I have avoided them for many years. When my current S Korea made Samsung needs replacing, I'll look into the US made Motorola options.
I have, several actually. There was a time I thought a Horosun or Primary Arms dot was a good option on non serious use guns like my kids' M&P 15-22s and other fun guns that don't fill a defensive role, but I realized that was thinking like a poor and I decided to dump them. Luckily, with COVID having everything out of stock, there was no shortage of retards who were willing to pay near full price for used china dots instead of spending a little more for a MRO or used Aimpoint.
The shake awake didn't work out of the box on the last Holosun I bought. I didn't bother trying to get it fixed or replaced since it was on my daughter's M&P 15-22. We would just hit the button on top to turn the optic on when we went to use it. Knowing others who had problems with Holosuns and it taking a while to get sorted out, I figured trying to get it fixed or replaced was going to require more effort than I was willing to put into a $140 red dot. The mounts are also garbage. I realize it's a china dot that costs less than a week of groceries, but it's like they didn't even try to make a decent mount. The anodizing is also paper thin. After a few range trips and bumping against other guns in the safe, they would look as used as my 10+ year old T1 looks. The 403b, which was their cheapest dot at the time, also had something funky going on with the windage adjustment. Sometimes I would give it several clicks and get no movement of the dot, then BAM the dots way the hell over on the other side. All of these minor issues, which I admit are minor, reaffirmed my belief that these were a much more inferior product than people online would have you believe. The dots were pretty crisp, and the glass was nice and clear, definitely from the child slaves' little fingers polishing and cleaning it before it left the factory.
The PA dots worked fine and had good battery life, but the dots were bloomy, and not from astigmatism. If I were to use a china dot for anything, I'd probably use a PA china dot as they seemed to perform as advertised. Another bonus is they didn't have any shake awakes or solar panels like the Holosuns, which are only necessary when you want to claim 50,000 hours of battery life but your product isn't capable of coming close to that, and your consumers are smart enough to recognize that.
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