Review: Trijicon’s New RMR HD

[Mike H.]

Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Review: Trijicon’s New RMR HD” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/trijicon-rmr-hd-review/.

 

[SimonRL]

Finally, top loading. Now if they could sell it for $450. Looks like I’ll be sticking with the DPP.

 

[JeffP42]

Is this confirmation that Springfield is saying the Echelon meets Trijicon’s criteria for the lens of the RMR HD to be safely near the ejection port of the Echelon? It’s in the warning of the manual of the RMR HD.

 

[Pro Digy II]

Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Review: Trijicon’s New RMR HD” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/trijicon-rmr-hd-review/.

$850 and it's not even a closed emitter, duuuude WTF?!?!?!! What's the logic behind a $850 RDS that competes against SIG and Holosun models that cost $350-$500?

There's a need to stop the "Made in USA" price gauging excuse! "Made in USA" is very much like "Free Range Chicken", and it's always been: it only means "more than x% needs to be made in the US". Where are the electronics coming from, the glass, ...

I'm sure it's a fine RS and passes rugged/MIL-810/IP27 blah blah blah (I do this for a living BTW, ALL $300+ RDS would pass these tests), but is $850 really justified?

 

[Jedi54]

was a bit worried about how close the optic sits to the ejection port.
anyone else running this combo or have thoughts on that?

 

[smurfslayer]

Thread resurrection!

I found this searching online and would offer the following feedback on the Echelon + RMR HD.

Don’t do it.
1) Trijicon tells you straight away in the manual for the RMR HD, don’t do it.
https://www.trijicon.com/uploads/page_content/PML1057-1_Rev(0)_RMR_HD_Manual.pdf ; page 4.
2) If warning number 1 is not sufficient

I swapped from RMR to RMR HD at 8,980 rounds. The first outing was a night shoot and I got this same malfunction, but it was dark and I was a bit hurried and tapped, racked and moved on before taking a picture.

This picture is at round count 9,312.
Ammunition is Magtech 9mm 115 grain

 

[Jedi54]

ah bummer @smurfslayer because I'm running the same setup and have had zero issues.

I've put approx 700 rounds through the gun with that optic and have not had 1 single malfunction.
100 rounds of Federal HST 124gr
the other 600+ was PMC 115gr

 

[smurfslayer]

What is your ejection pattern like? I get one shells popping up right at 12 o’clock. There is not a lot of overhang on the echelon port, FN 509 is way worse, and a bunch more prone to this from videos I’ve seen.