Friends, I just realized this picture does not show a Wasp RDS ..... that is a Shield RDS (probably a SMSc) mounted on that Hellcat, and yes it does offer 100% co-witness just as shown and exactly like mine. Since I've not yet mounted the Wasp I also have, I can't say exactly what the co-witness is but I've been led to believe it is 100%. But then I've heard others say it doesn't.
On my RDP, the front sight doesn't show its full extent, but maybe a bit more than half. It does make an adequate picture through the glass. The gun would be usable if the sight died. Unlike the picture in the manual, mine is set with the dot (after holding my best sight picture) right on top in the center of the front post. People will say the sights are right on but the dot should be above them.. If that was true the gun would be shooting low. I never had to readjust the dot because I very carefully aligned it just so to the sights. It worked. I get hits on smallish targets out to 25 yards, which is better than I expected. I have iron sights on a S&W SD40 and my groups at 25 aren't even close to the Hellcat's.
David I have the 10mm version of the compact Elite 3.8 and I put a Holosun 507C on it and I have no concern that I can’t See the iron sights, the red dot is zeroed in and with shake awake the red dot is always there.
Thanks, Key. I have the Dragonfly and I do not have concerns either.
Inspecta, it's much easier to demonstrate 100% co-witness than to try to explain it. Look at the attachment in this post and you'll see a perfect representation of 100% co-witnessing on a Hellcat with 'Ball in a bucket' irons. Hope this helps.
1,000 × 1,000Here is the hex wasp image that sold me, i expected a full sight of my irons... I have had the wasp replaced due to eating batteries and just received a new one. It is not the same as the image above, the front of my wasp cuts my front sight by around 60%. I wonder if something has changed height wise on the front of the wasp. I feel there is a little bit of false advertising going on here.
But the question is, can you get a true co witness through it?
Yes I can, but remember, my WASP is the original that first came out
So they changed the dimensions of the Wasp in production?
Some on here are saying that something changed on the newer ones, personally I don’t know, but on mine I can co-witnesses with no problem
My guess is that changes were made to the size of the housing for a different circuit board that was most likely the cause of the battery drain problem.
With mine I can almost see the whole front site, I would take a pic and post it but I took the red dot off, couldn’t get used to it and just went back to the iron sites
Conax, I believe the misunderstanding is in the terminology. If the term "100% co-witness" or "absolute co-witness" is used, then the sight picture should allow a full sight alignment/picture using the BUIS with the rds installed and sighted in. Anything less than the 'full' sight picture is something less than 100% co-witness.
