Hi Folks,
I am new to this forum and I am away a good bit of the time. That being said...I recently purchased a 5" C.O.R.E in 9mm after a trainer made a joke about my Model 59 that I've packed for the last 30+ years. I didn't get the joke; the thing always goes 'BANG' and hits what it is pointed at. He thought that the lanyard loop was hilarious...go figure?!
OK, back to the 21st century...my CORE shoots well on it's high iron sights, but I didn't buy it for them. So the hunt began for a rugged mini red dot; I read a lot of stories, watched a bunch of YouTubes, and talked to friends. A friend reported on an older fellow that we had trained with a few years back. This older gentleman was still into "wheel" guns and found himself getting caught in way too many reloading drills and that just maybe it was time to move to the 'dark side'. He jumped in with both feet and bought a striker fired mega-shooter, brand unknown, and a red dot to go with it. Talk about jumpin' in with both feet!! His red dot didn't co-witness and he became a victim of what we nick-named "bobbleheading", like the little dashboard toys, when trying to pick-up the red dot.
This story kinda put me off as I use red dots on some of my rifles and love 'em. I had reduced my list of potential sights down to the recently released Deltapoint Pro; but I mean really!!! the thing cost almost as much as my pistol. This brings to mind the ol' adage about an American will buy a $2500 rifle and put a $300 scope on it; whereas, a European will buy a $300 rifle and put a $2500 scope on it. I guess that I am guilty as charged...as well as being verbose...moving on. About 6 weeks ago DVOR had a sale on J-Point red dots and they had the hard to find, for me anyways, center dot version that has a 1moa dot in the middle of a 65moa 12 dot circle, just like the Eotech on my XCR-L. I never have any problem finding that dot and the price shipped was only $218. So, I got it, mounted it with some blue Loctite, co-witnessed it to the high irons and took it to the "club" where it was almost perfect. A couple of minor 'tweaks' and it is perfect, and as mentioned, 300+ rounds later still is perfect. And because of the 65moa circle that surrounds the 1 moa dot there is no dreaded "bobbleheading". If you have the muscle memory for the iron sights the circle and dot will be right there big as life and unmistakable!!
I had never heard of J-Point or the Doktor(sp?) and some of the other mini red dots. Some appear to be rebadged Europeans for the American market!?! But I am, so far, very impressed with this J-Point "http://www.jprifles.com/buy.php?item=JPOINTCD".
I hope that this helps someone; I still have an interest in the DeltaPoint Pro, it would permit me to lose the rear iron sight if I am lucky and it too co-witnesses, but the cost; the best price I could find was $546 and that may be out of date!! And I haven't seen the J-Point for the price I paid lately either...
All disclaimers apply and YMMV!!
Shef
P.S. In another post someone asked about covers for pistol optics...these J-Points ship with two covers;-)
