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Anybody else having blow back coming out of loaded chamber indicator dirtying up their red dot lens?
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M&P 2.0 competor making red dot lens dirty.
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I haven't put a red dot on my Competitor so I haven't experienced what you have, but I do have a Springfield Armory Prodigy that has that has the loaded chamber indicator.
It is probably the most frustrating feature of that pistol. After 50 or 60 rounds you are aiming through a lens almost totally obscured with all sorts of debris and must be cleaned to really see through. It's like looking out of a window on a foggy day with a huge red light off in the distance.
I just don't understand the need for the LCI. It's really too small to be able to be used to verify that there is a round in the chamber in most cases. IMO it should be eliminated.
There are gun shops that for about $50 will weld the hole shut and buff the area off so that you can't even see that there ever was a hole there. I have considered having that done to mine.
It is probably the most frustrating feature of that pistol. After 50 or 60 rounds you are aiming through a lens almost totally obscured with all sorts of debris and must be cleaned to really see through. It's like looking out of a window on a foggy day with a huge red light off in the distance.
I just don't understand the need for the LCI. It's really too small to be able to be used to verify that there is a round in the chamber in most cases. IMO it should be eliminated.
There are gun shops that for about $50 will weld the hole shut and buff the area off so that you can't even see that there ever was a hole there. I have considered having that done to mine.
Competitor , metal or one of the many of polymer model all will black in your lens . By your self a Lens Pen for basic dust off cleaning and catch up with it after a round of match play or range day with a lens cleaner spray and microfiber towel . I been doing this for 11 years with an old match use and now fun gun m&p core . I did change the dot optic from a RM02 to a holosun green circle dot .
I think that almost all of the M&P pistol versions (including my 10mm 2.0) will dirty up an RDO lens, but it's usually just a minor inconvenience and can easily be cleaned. I had the same issue with both the stock S&W plastic mounting plate and with the C&H metal mounting plate that I replaced it with. As Ethang mentioned, if it really bothers you there is a mounting plate that will deflect the blowback residue- but I can't remember the manufacturer.
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I have the same problem on my OR Compact but decided cleaning the optic as a part of my normal gun cleaning after a range trip made more sense. But I did save a link to the plate when I saw it mentioned here. It is made by a company called Calculated Kinetics. Never bought the plate so I cannot comment on how well it works.
Smith and Wesson M&P 2.0 DOGTAG Optic Plate
– Calculated Kinetics
It works great. All the blowback is deposited on the plate instead of the lens. CK says it stops 80% of blowback, but IME it stops 100% of it. After my last range trip of 200 rounds, I wiped the lense and nothing came off.
Yes it does..only problem was it was too thick for a Safariland duty holster.
