Decent sight for the money - NOVUS Precision PDS-1 1x25mm Prismatic Red Dot Sight

These were on sale down to around $310 already, plus another 14% off coupon brought them down to $250 so I bought two and put them on a pair of AKs, one in 7.62x39 and one in 5.45x39. So far they’re holding up, but I’m not 100% comfortable using them as anything other than a fun/novelty scope yet. They seem to be holding zero, I like the reticle, using AA batteries is really nice but they are longitudinally mounted like old school EOTech 512s, and that turned out to be an issue with recoil on them, so hopefully I won’t have the same problems here.

One consistent complaint is the lack of brightness at the highest settings, but IMO they’re perfectly fine. I like the integrated mount, which is good since that’s all you get. Overall tho for the price of a Holosun T2 style optic, I think these are decent.