Bob from United States, WA Public Profile

I put one of these on my EDC G19 a few months ago. A couple of months ago, I wanted to compare the brightness with another light, and pushed the constant on button. Light came on, then went back off after about 2 seconds. I did this several times. I called Surefire, and found out that they have had several fail in this manner. I shipped it back for repair.

I think it took 6 weeks for Surefire to send me a replacement light. They did send me a brand new light that works just fine, but why did it take so long? Since the only holster I had for that gun was made to use with the light in place, I had to carry a different gun during that period.

Seriously? If they are going to replace the light, it should have gone out the day after the defective one got there. Why did they sit on it a month before replacing? (I'm allowing a week for shipping each way.)

It is a good light, but the sole attraction is the compact size. I wouldn't buy this light for any use other than IWB carry. Streamlight has brighter lights for less than half the money, and I never had a Streamlight fail. But, Surefire has them beat on size.

This is the ideal design. The dot over dot design is impossible to misalign. On the other hand, in real dark conditions, it is easy to get a 3 dot tritium system aligned with the front sight actually to the right or left of the two rear dots.

The glowing green circle around the front dot grabs your eye as soon as it enters your fringe vision on the draw in normal light. Flash that circle with your flashlight in dark conditions, and it glows bright green for the full diameter of the circle.

Further, these sights are perfectly calibrated for elevation on my Glock 34 with 115 to 127 grain loads.

Best sights ever. I JUST WISH THEY ALSO MADE THEM IN SUPPRESSOR HEIGHT for use on my RMR equipped guns.

I bought this scope because it has the highest advertised eye relief of any variable scope of this type that I could find regardless of price. I ordered it last May (2015), and waited until it was finally delivered in January 2016.

It delivers on that promise, and if I press my glasses up against the rubber eyecup, I can get full field of view even at 60x zoom. I would prefer to NOT have to press my glasses against the eyecup, but this is the best there is out there for this feature right now. With a top of the line Swarovski, you are reduced to looking through a small donut hole at high magnification. While nobody has better optics than swarovski, it doesn't matter how good the optics are if you can't see through it (to me, anyway).

I compared my new MD88 side by side with a brand new Vortex Razor. I would say that the optics were comparable, but the MD88 had much more eye relief. However, the Razor was MUCH easier to focus which leads to my one complaint about the MD88: THE FOCUS RINGS AROUND THE SCOPE BODY ARE MUCH TOO STIFF. Even when set up securely on a quality Manfrotto tripod, you have to apply so much pressure to the focus rings that you cause enough vibration that it is hard to see when the focus is perfect. The fine focus ring is easier to move than the coarse focus ring, but still stiff. The coarse focus ring is a two hand operation, one on the ring and the other on the scope body; you will almost certainly move the scope off of your object if you have t

Outstanding in every way. A huge improvement over the inexpensive tripod we were using previously. Steady, solid, and moves smoothly. We use it for wildlife photography, and have gotten nice shots of beaver, red foxes, and a weasel using it.