Opmod version: not great - SIG SAUER ROMEO Zero Elite 1x24mm Reflex Red Dot Sight

My experience with pistol red dots is limited; I've only had two so far. I bought this for a P365XL, and figured the company probably knew how to make a good reflex sight for its own pistols. Sure, it worked. I got it installed, tried it out, removed it and reinstalled with loctite, then I bought another slide, then I moved the sight to the new slide, and by that point one major weakness really reached out and touched me. I had suffered through others as well, but did not know what I was missing (yet), other than the problem that only showed itself when I moved it to another slide.

The housing of the sight itself (not the opmod frame into which it fits) is plastic. After three times trying to install it with a torque wrench meeting the documentation's specified torque requirements, the plastic on one of the screw holes broke in a weird way, a ring of plastic popping over the top of the screw head and separating from the body of the sight.

I looked into alternatives. Holosun makes a (slightly more expensive) metal bodied sight. I bought that, and EVERYTHING is better.

The Holosun body is metal, so there's no need of that cowl that came with the ROMEO Zero. Compared to the Holosun, the controls for the ROMEO are so awful that I frankly never wanted to touch them again, and all the tap-to-adjust stuff activated at times when I didn't want it, while the Holosun controls are simple, accessible, and not prone to accidental activation. Directions for some aspects of adjustment of the ROMEO (using the end of a hex/Allen wrench to press a button near the glass) seemed designed to trick people into damaging the glass. Changing the battery would require removing the thing from the pistol then using loctite and a torque wrench to re-attach afterward while the Holosun has a screw-secured battery tray on the side so you don't have to risk stripping screws (or plastic sight body!) every time you need to change batteries and you don't need a toolkit including loctite and torque wrench while at the range.

Spend a few extra bucks to get something better. It's not that much of an extra investment; if you can afford one, you can afford the other, but if you buy the "one", be ready to buy two if it breaks.

Until it broke, it did what it was supposed to do. I gave it three stars, because of that, and because I suspect most people don't have exactly the same problem I had, but for my personal experience I feel like maybe it should be two stars.