Waited on this for years only to be disappointed - Shield Sights AMS Enclosed Emitter Reflex Red Dot Sight w/Multi Reticle

Like the other reviewer, it pains me to leave a negative review. I own a TON of Shield Sights. I waited on this thing to be released for a long time.

It is basically an RMS with manual adjustments (hooray), but you can't see through the window because of the emitter cover that essentially puts a box in your line of sight that is larger than the front sight. It takes up half the window. On top of that, mine has a tremendous amount of vertical parallax shift. Laterally, there is virtually no shift, but the dot moves about a foot or more vertically...and that's inside an already too small window. It would work very well under NODs if you had more than half an inch of window to look through.

The Shield AMS takes the very intuitive Shield RMS and adds a far more robust chassis. Its downfall is the choice to include the emitter channel cover in order to make this an enclosed optic. The buttons are better than on the older SIS model, the auto brightness is about as good as it gets for a red dot...having three auto brightness ranges is excellent, and it can handle the recoil of basically any pistol. The battery is contained well and is watertight. The included battery compartment tool is perfect.

However, the