For price, great entry optic. for quality, good middle of the road. - Vortex Venom 1x26.5mm Red Dot Sight

Having shot a buddies Trijicon RMR, and having used extremely budget red dots on both PCCs and pistols, I watched a decent number of reviews and read multiple articles on both the Vortex Venom and the Burris FastFire 3. I ended up going for the Vortex Venom given their slightly larger window from what I saw, and the warranty offered by Vortex. To be fair, my main gun this has been on is a Ruger-57, something of a meme/range gun anyway not intended for hardcore CQB or CCW work by any means, but in my limited range time, this has performed well enough. I realize I have a lot of training time to go with red dots, and I understand the tactical advantages, at least in theory, but I am not entirely certain if I would go with the Venom again. If you present your firearm with the bore maybe 3-4 degrees off target, you can still find your red dot which is nice, but there is a good deal of the window, both above and to the far sides of the dot where you would still expect to see your dot that it just cuts out. I realize this term is parallax, and I think they mitigated fairly well, but it's not exactly at RMR or Leupold Delta point Pro levels having also had experience with both of these. Way better than Chinesium, but you may want to keep an eye out for the parallax compared between this and the Burris if you are taking a look. The larger window size doesn't make as big a difference when compared to the Burris when you factor in parallax in my opinion. Otherwise, glass is high quality, and the optic has a solid feel to it.