A lot to like - Leupold DeltaPoint Pro 1 x 2.5 MOA Red Dot Sight

I've been fighting the micro red dot trend for a while and decided to get into it with the DPP. I actually got a steal on one so the sight showed up and then I sat on it for about a month before deciding what to do with it. Funny enough, it ended up on an ultralight 10/22 build, so it's way overkill for the application but it really works beautifully.

It's around 2oz, I think, so the added weight on a carbine is nominal. The red dot is crisp and the construction seems very robust. It dials in easily and I like that the battery can be changed without removing the sight.

For my particular application my only gripes, and they are minor, is that I wish the lowest setting was lower, for night applications. Daylight bright is NOT an issue! But rather the opposite. But it's not a deal-breaker. The other gripe is that adjusting the brightness seems clunky for what is otherwise a really well-designed sight. What I mean by that is, you basically reach into the sight and press the single control button to toggle the brightness up and down. Which isn't a big deal, except that while doing that your finger is obstructing both the lens and the emitter, so if you--for example--press the button 3 or 4 times, you then have to move your finger out of the body of the sight, see if the brightness is right, and then do it again if you need to continue to adjust it. If you're just going to set it on bright and let the motion sensor do its thing I guess this is no big deal, but it seems like an external control (RMR, Vortex) would be a little easier to manipulate as you could see the brightness changing as you pressed the buttons, and not after the fact. I'm actually surprised more reviews haven't touched on this, so it very well could just be me getting used to the sight.

It's not cheap, but you get what you pay for. My minor complaints aside it's a very nice micro RDS and it seems like a viable alternative to the RMR.