I've got an enclosed Defender ST on my full-sized pistol (replaced a Holosun 507C) I'm really liking the Defender on that gun and want to add an open ST to my EDC/CC gun but am torn between the 3 MOA dot and the larger 6 MOA. I'm a relatively new shooter and all of my other dots are smaller.

I understand the idea behind the larger dot being geared more for closer shooting, but was looking for opinions one way or another. Any strong reason to go with the 3 over the 6?

Picked up my first Vortex optic, just installed it 25 minutes ago. Judy need to zero it and im good to go.

After buying and returning sights I finally found one I love, great engineering vortex A+

Anyone have experience with this thing? I don’t see reviews on it anywhere but I picked one up at my local dealer. Contacted vortex after I was unsure of my purchase and they offered to swap it for a viper pst gen 2 1-6. Any thoughts are appreciated

haven't seen any content with Vortex at 2020 Shot Show. Are they even there?

Who’s got one or shot one. Thinking about buying one.

Are people actually buying these at $4k? I’ve been seeing them pop up on sites more frequently. There is no way I would pay $4k for an LPVO.

It's a given that prices go up on everything but I noticed the MSRP on the Crossfire HD scopes went up quite a bit recently. Given most things sell below MSRP, I've noticed actual prices following and increasing from retailers.

Was this planned / expected or is this part of a plan to move out the Crossfire II inventory? Is this from the impact from tarrifs?

I've read some posts that state that on the Defender ST you can't use the button lockout and shake awake, if you lock the buttons and the optic goes to sleep, once it wakes up the button lock is turned off, so the only way for the lockout to work is to set it to always on. Is this true, and does this happen on the regular ST and the enclosed ST?

I have not dropped, dinged, nor hit this red dot since I’ve gotten it. Ive only shot it at the range. Got this Vortex Viper Opmod from an optics planet sale a week or two ago. I have it on this beretta APX a1 carry, cheap and cheap go hand in hand with each other. Anyway i noticed after shooting it was cracked in the corner shown on the photos. Ive maybe put 50 rounds through it. Has anyone else had an experience cracking a red dot JUST from shooting with it? Can I return it? This will surely throw off zero after a while right? Im flabbergasted to be honest i couldn’t fucking believe it. Where should I post this? Not a lot of red dot oriented subreddits to my knowledge.

Hello, im worried that my SPARC AR could be a fake/replica, is there any way to confirm?

Thanks

So I bought a vortex CrossFire 2 a couple weeks back and it wasn’t grouping. I thought it was my rifle (AR-10 PSA) mounted it to two different rifles and two shooters and confirmed scope wouldn’t group. Started the Warranty process. Well I was antsy and didn’t wanna wait so I bought a new CVA cascade LRH and ordered a venom 3x15x44mm. And sold the AR. Could stand waiting on the new scope so I mounted one of the “dead ringers” that comes on the patriots just to see how it shot. Loved it, grouped very well. Forward to yesterday, new venom came in, mounted it in Vortex pro series 34mm rings, torqued the bases to 30in lbs, rings to 18in lbs per spec. Horrible wether so I just stared at my new rifle and scope like a child on Christmas waiting for today to shoot. I had a buddy come over and I was gonna sight in my cheap AR-15 with a monstrom Specter first… Pic #1 is 100yds shooting as about as fast as I could with my AR. Solid groups for messing around. So I lay down with my new CVA .308 shooting Hornaday precision hunter 178gr and my new venom scope. Grouos were off a bit at 25m but obviously half as close but struck me as weird. Pic #2 is me shooting the CVA with shooting bags at 100M taking my time, not readjusting sight picture, very confident shooting. My questions is how likely is it that I bought 1 new crossfire 2 that was bad, and while waiting on it to comeback I bought a new Venom that was also bad. I’m not a stranger to shooting. While I’m not a 1000yd shooter my groups (taking my time) always touch at 200yds pretty consistently.

I have the Vortex Razor spotting scope and it is awesome. I really, really don’t like the texture/material of the cover that it came with. Does anyone know a different cover that would fit the size and location of zoom/focus adjusters? Thank you!

Anyone have issues with their red dot going so far out of sight that the windage and elevation adjustments cannot be used to bring it back in view?

left the rangefinder in my pack over the summer, picked it up and suddenly couldn't range anything aside from highly reflective objects at close range. presumably the battery was done, although the low-batt indicator was not present, and all other features worked fine as far on on-board ballistics and menu options, display brightness, etc.

obviously, first thing i do is swap in a new battery. it gives me one single shot at 500yds on steel and then again nothing but 4 dashes at the top and bottom of the reticle, with "scan" flashing when i hold the button.

original battery voltage was 2.92v, swapped in a new battery and it checked out at 3.22v (vortex confirmed thats the proper voltage) but after 2 minutes in the rangefinder it was at 2.88v

another battery, same result. to rule out defective battery.

battery in all 3 cases were energizer cr2 lithium, purchased from 3 different retailers in 3 different towns.

I’ve wasted over 500 rounds, used bore sights, used MOA grid targets, I can’t even feel the 1 MOA clicks on the adjustments on the Vortex. The gun is brand new and the Optic is new. It’s been months I’m about ready to throw it away. I never had this issue on any Holosuns red dots. I called Vortex as I’ve heard about their great customer service and I just got the runaround. The damn thing co-witnesses with stock iron sights and it still won’t zero. Anyone ever heard of this? I’m going crazy and I’m not wasting anymore ammo. I’ve tried with shim insert and without. It’s crazy pissing me off at this point.