Excellent glass, crisp reticle, one killer flaw - Vortex Defender-CCW Enclosed Solar Micro 1x20.2mm Reflex Red Dot Sight

I returned the optic, begrudgingly, because the ride height covered the nice irons of my 1400 dollar 365 x macro legion. I love those irons and require that level of redundancy on all my pistols with optics. That said, this Vortex optic is awesome! In every category Vortex DESTROYS Sig (x compact enclosed) micro red dot. Sig disrespects their customers and Vortex proves it between these two at comparison. This Vortex optic has excellent glass, much better controls, great MRS, super crisp reticle, no parallax, a larger window, daylight brightness without the weird blue tenting, seemingly much more durably constructed and it’s all those things for $150-200 less than the Sig x compact enclosed. When I put those two side by side, it made me detest the Sig version for how much better Vortex did everything about this optic except it’s one critical flaw. So I had to keep the sig unfortunately. I hope Vortex fixes this issue with a gen 2 and continues to expose Sig’s flagrant disrespect and cr*p quality. Final note, every optic should be made in America. I was under the impression vortex optics were, however this defender ccw says “made in china” boldly on the bottom. Would pay sig level money for made in America on the bottom of that thing. Lower the ride height to accommodate redundant iron use on ccw pistols and this is a perfect optic. God Bless!