VALDADA R.D.S. EDGE RED DOT

[Iceberg]

I'm thinking of buying a Valdada RDS Edge Red Dot for my LMT M4.

http://www.valdada.com/product/81e63...725b2093a.aspx

Does anyone have experience w/ this optic? Please post some pictures of the Valdada on your rifle.

[shittercrewchief]

The general opinion you will get here is to buy 1 time cry 1 time.
Save another 250.00 and get and Aimpoint M2 you get PROVEN dependability ad 10,000 hours of battery life not 800.

[castillo]

For $250 you can find a used M2 if you look around a bit.

[perna]

Or spend alot less on a Primary Arms optic.

[bkb0000]

Or spend alot less on a Primary Arms optic...

and break it.

[perna]

I do not think they will break any easier than what he is asking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMosefuud0I

[JSantoro]

:facepalm: THAT'S a viable drop test? Nuh-uh.

Attach your PA POC to a rifle, zero it. Guess what, you just added something like 12-16x or more the mass compared to the optic alone, and put it in it's ACTUAL OPERATING CONFIGURATION (are you going to shoot your weapon while simultaneously holding the optic in your hand and squinting through it? that's what your cited "drop test" implies, and where's the zero results pre-and post-test? FAIL).

Then dump the thing on turf, wood, concrete from 3-6-12', on various points of the rifle, check zero each time. IF it holds zero at that point (doubtful, at best), dump the thing on the same surfaces from the same distances sight-first. Check zero. If you're making any attempt to conduct a viable test, you'll make a bowing genuflection to putting an accellerometer on the thing, if for no other reason than to record the point at which it WILL break in the first iterations of what's described above. And I'm leaving out steps.

Recommendations should be made on the basis of reality and proven performance characteristics and NOT tests designed to ensure that the testable model makes a threshold or objective. That YouTube video is total clown-shoes.

OP asked about the Valada. I haven't used one, so I can't add anything to that, but I'd like to dispell false info as to what does or does not constitute a viable option to it.

[olds442tyguy]

and break it.

How did you break yours?

[bkb0000]

How did you break yours?

i dont need to have owned a yugo to know they suck, same for optics. aimpoint compc3 is as cheap as i go.

[militarymoron]

i haven't found IOR valdada quality to be lacking - they're just pretty heavy but robustly built. that being said, the one thing that would stop be from choosing the edge red dot are the exposed adjustment knobs. on a sniper/target scope where you might be dialing in adjustments for your shots, sure, but on a RDS i'd want to zero it and cover them up to protect them from inadvertent movement. just my .02.