Graphics alone will likely sell a metric ton.

Same on a good part of my lowers.

And yeah, FUGLY is right.

Just putting in a couple bits of info here, I'm lurking in some threads on the Anderson micro dot.

They ARE all made in China, but I do want to say that it isn't necessarily the same factory. We have three different micro dots right now, the $90 entry level MD-RBGII (micro dot, removable base gen 2), the $170 MD-ADS (micro dot, advanced dot sight), and the $150 MD-RB-AD (micro dot, removable base, advanced). Despite the names sounding darn near the same when you spell it all out (I know, I know, it's not my fault), each of those sights is actually made in a different factory.

I don't want to give away too much of the game and I don't want to mis-speak, but I also try to be honest with you guys at all times and give you the insider's take when I can. And I assure you, while most of these factories are located near Shanghai, not all of them are. And they compete with each other and steal tech from each other, copy each other and undercut each other and generally hate each other's guts. And in total there are over 20 factories making red dots in China right now, and I don't even have a complete count because I don't know about them all, I'm just a marketing guy mostly. So imagine a deep seated competition like Ford/Chevy/Dodge where they are always spying on each other, trying to hire each other's best employees, and trying to make a better or cheaper version of what the other company is working on... except there are more than 20 of them.

It's way more complicated than the industry ever really talks about, and I'm not privy to all the information. The reason why I'm telling you guys this is so you know, they aren't ALL the same. If you buy a $50 one off of Ebay it is NOT the same as the $150 one or the $300 one that looks really similar. Take the time to look at the specifications, look at the warranty, and buy from a reputable place.

I really have no idea what this Anderson red dot is like. Maybe it IS made in the same factory as one of ours. I don't know how their $150 micro dot compares to our $150 micro dot. But I do know, the Chinese manufacturing and import of optics for American customers is way more complex than most American shooters realize.

Hope you guys find my takes to be helpful and truthful.

The smaller the unit, the more difficult it seems to be to put fine adjustments in it. The adjustments on those little reflex RMR style sights are always coarse too, I've noticed.

Yeah, I totally agree, and I speculate that the necessity of making them tough enough to live on reciprocating pistol slides has reinforced that.

A couple years back at SHOT Show we did a teaser of a reflex sight, and it got some attention, people were really interested. But, the project got canceled, and there was much disappointment. It was then that I learned from some of the engineering guys about just how hard it is to make a little reflex sight that will last on a pistol slide. A 9mm Sig 320RX with the Romeo1 sight attached on top of it puts about 6,000 g's of force through the sight in BOTH directions every time it fires. Therefore, if you dump a 17 round magazine through the gun you've just put a total of 204,000 g's through the reflex sight just with that one mag, if you count both directions. Isn't that insane?

Optics calibrated for fine adjustments would, I think, be much more likely to experience point of impact shift / loss of zero than optics with more coarse, but stronger, internal adjustments.