I picked a Millet DMS/Burris PEPR combo at SWFA for $265.00. After trying to save for a higher end optic combo for a year, I finally came to the realization that my status in the financial world and focusing priorities on things like food, just would not allow it. I set my expectations low and have to say that I'm very pleased with this set-up.
I'll do a more extensive review later, but for now, here's my initial impressions:
The scope and mount are robust. I haven't done an official weight, but if everything fails, you can beat someone to death with this unit. I unpacked the scope and mount at work and had to wait until I got home to mount it. I laser bore-sighted it with a flashlight and a tree-trunk at 1am and took it to the range in the pouring rain the next day.
I must have been blessed by the laser-gods, as the scope was 1 click off up and right at 50-yards. From the bench, my groups were tight like prom night and off the bench not much changed. There is some fisheye at 100-yards and on 1x, but less so when you dial up to 1.5 and up. I left it set at 1.5 for most of a class 3-days later, (also in the pouring rain). My failure to properly LocTite the PEPR was my only hang-up that day. After a self-inflicted dope slap, I tightened up the mount properly and pressed on. I was not disappointed.
The donut-dot reticle is easy to pick up and bright - except in bright light. However, the reticle itself is easy to pic up with no illumination - the 1 MOA center dot is great for more precise shooting and the donut covers well for center-mass at longer ranges. I have not wrung this scope out past 200-yards, but between 5-feet and 200-yards, the scope performs well.
The Burris PEPR mount seems to be pretty well thought out. It's also large and heavy like the scope and I'm not sure I'll ever use the rails on the rings, (you never know I guess), but it locks up solidly, (if you do your part) and holds zero.
Laying in some tall grass on the range, shooting at 50-yards in the rain with my pack as a rest, I was pretty pleased with accuracy. I took 5-shots at a quarter, hit it once, dinged it twice and had two-flyers about 3/4 inch north and south. I'm not a bench shooter, so I don't plan on winning any matches with this scope. What I do plan on is beating the snot out of it and will report how this scope hold up. If folks are looking for a magnified, illuminated optic and are on a budget, this may indeed be an option.
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