Sig Sauer Romeo 1 - 2,000 round review - A decent dot making in roads in competition shooting
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2019
- The Sig Sauer Romeo 1 was neck in neck with the Delta Point Pro at last years USPSA Carry Optics nationals - but can it hold it's own besides filling the rear of the X Five slide? We Review the dot
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One thing to add........... the warranty support. I dropped mine on concrete and the glass shattered......Sig replaced it no questions asked.
Good news to Romeo 1 owners out there. I had to send in my optic and had a new one sent to me in under 2 weeks including shipping both ways.
That's exceptional service. Way to go Sig.
Nice info and review as nice red dot....Love the detailed info on it....Good stuff....
This is my first pistol optic, thanks for the review!
May it serve you well! I still have this mounted on my practice gun. Still does fine!
Y or Z axis?
My Gen 1 had issues with the battery cap as well. I thought the battery life was really horrible(2 2weeks) but it was the design of 5-10 pounds of torque being needed to keep the cap from backing out. It'd back out just after carry and dry fire. Good overview. Might have to pick one up for my X carry.
Nice Review Brother, TFS Carry On
Have a p320RX and am happy with the optic, but I don't know if i would get one for a different gun. The price was right for the RX package along with it cowitnessing w/the factory suppressor night sights and not needing a base plate on the factory mill work ect.
You realize the tool key that came with the romeo has the tool for zeroing. Just slide the spare battery door open and it is on silver part.
I haven't had any issues with my, Romeo 1, and it's been almost 2 years. I hate that I lost my dust cover, but I clean it with, Viva paper towel before I leave the house every morning. I also lost the cleaning cloth. Oh, it's mounted on a X-5 with Talon rubberized grips.
glad to hear it's holding up for you. These seem to have been somewhat a crap shoot from what I'm hearing - mine was rock solid - but I have buddies who went through a few.
Hey bud I just got the plate from sig for my Romeo1 are the screws that come with it the ones that hold the sight down to the plate?
Nice review. Sage beat his and if finally broke from a shoulder height drop. I bought the coversion kit (slide with Romeo 1 installed on it) so I can have an optic on P226 TacOps. Seem like a good optic but your right about that protective cover, it's useless. I you going to get Sig protective shroud that covers the optic when shooting?
not for my use. While I like the R1 - that one is going to be basically on a range gun only. Only once have I actually banged my optic on a port when the gun was recoiling - it's not a major concern for what I do - and I have a DPP on my carry gun. If I pick up a sig where the mission of that dot changes eventually then I would definitely pick up the steel shroud.
probably be a good idea to wait for the gen 3 sounds like a few more issue fixes and it will be a good option I really want to add a legion to my collection with one of these on it
Thinking on this further - I think the DPP is better engineered from a dot adjustment stand point with respect to zero, I like the glass/dot better on the romeo. I wish I could take my favorite bits of both and combine them.
My 6 MOA Romeo 1 Gen 2 just shipped back to Sig this morning. It consistently loses zero, drops approx 4” every 300 rounds. Hopefully they have a fix. I enjoy mine but it is very frustrating to have this issue.
yeah I dont' know why the Romeo 1s have such an issue with vertical zero.
I just received my adapter plate to mount this sight on my Sig SP2022 9mm. I have to remove the rear iron sight and tap the mounting plate into place to install the red dot. Not crazy about losing my rear iron sight in order to mount the red dot but since I didn't have the option of buying an optics ready version at the time I bought my pistol.
How’s your experience been with the dovetail mount? I was thinking about getting one for my Shadow 2
Might be able to get the slide milled for optics for less than the price of the optic itself. Just in case you want that iron sight back.
how do you turn on/off Romeo 1
Brightness down button stopped functioning. Sent it in to Sig and they replaced my optic with a brand new one in under two weeks.
Yeah - those buttons didn't inspire confidence.
I'm using the vortex razor that seems to be doing fine right now but I haven't been able to compare it to anything. How about vortex viper or venom? Any word how they've been holding up and how effective they've been?
They seem to develop cracks in the housing with a lot of use but generally pretty good up to that point
Hi, what rear sight and font sight did you mount?
Thk!
Dawson Precision has a set of co-witness MOS sights for the Romeo 1 - if you look under the gen 5 tab you won't see them, they're technically gen 4 but they appear to work for gen 5s too. I emailed tech support and he told me the sight pairing I'd need for the Romeo 1 and said it'd be custom - but in the meantime I found through going to the MOS sights they already had that very set packaged for sale.
That has to be some kind of sin ,mixing Sig and Glock Products lol
Yeah it feels weird.
Hey are y'all live tonight? I can't remember what channel. You Tube don't send me much notification so I got to search it out
Tomorrow night on WorkTheTrigger channel at 845 central
What’s irons are those?
The Romeo 1 looks so much like the Venom that ether Sig or Vortex is making both of them.
Have 2 R1's, but sadly, they just always seem 2b ali'l "off". Rather'n keepin meticulous records, from each zero sesh, and documenting deviations from zero, on next range visit, I just fell into tha habit of expectin to hafta re-zero, every time, and I'm kinda sourin on dots, even tho my old eyes NEED all tha help they can get. Think I need to go back to square 1, and document tha S outta my zeroing sesh's, and maybe Sig'll sendme replacements, that suck less...
thanks for the objective review. its so rare lately.
Cheers - I have a side by side coming up with the R1 and the DPP - check back for that later in the week.
I recently found me an x compact. I wasn't really that stoked about red dots. I just want crazy of paying alot to have my slide milled then buying a red dont that costs as much as the firearm. But since this x compact is ready for red dot i thought I'd go for it. So it sounds like it's a good place for a guy me to get started. If I get hooked...and I'm sure I will my g19 might get a deltapro or trijicon one day. How does anyone feel about Holosun? Been hearing positive things about them.
I would take a holosun over the Sig Romeo honestly. The glass is nicer on the sig but the housing is more robust on the Holosun. The early Romeo's had issues with zero shift - the holosuns have amazingly positive engagement on their adjustment dials.
@@TheHumbleMarksman ill have to check to see if it'll fit the footproot on this sig. Hey thanks man
I went through 3 different 6 moa romeo1s that wouldn’t hold zero vertically. I know of 2 other guys that had the same issue with 5 between them.
It’s a shame too, because I like the sight picture on the Romeo better than the DPP
This is horrible. I have heard of more issues with the Romeo and zero than any other dot. Vortex will have cracks develop in the shroud, DPPs will have issues with electronics...Sigs apparently can’t hold zero.
would you say romeo 1 pro still holds it grounds after all these years?
No. The footprint is basically dead
Have you seen the dots coming from U.S. Optics. Look promising. Coming out with a budget and a direct dpp RMR competitor.
Athletic Performance Shooting they are sending me the budget one for testing - looking forward to it. The high dollar one appears to have auto adjust - which I am not interested in
TheHumbleMarksman . Well that’s awesome. Yea hate auto adjust. It’s just not there yet.
What's it called can't find it on their site. Thanks
@@willws2conceptsshephard The DRS :www.usoptics.com/product/drs-dynamic-reflex-sight/
Will this work with Glock 19 mos?
Paralax?
It's crazy...I just had this optic in my cart to purchase, but I keep holding back. I have the X-5 and wasn't sure if I need to order it with the mounting hardware?...also on optics planet I can't tell which one for a sale is a gen 1 or gen 2 other than price. Also the pictures I can't tell if the glass is proud of the optics?...I am somewhat hesitant as I have rmr' and the DPP and they have been bomb proof....your thoughts?
They only sell gen 2s now. The Romeo 1 should mount directly to the XFive slide.
TheHumbleMarksman ok...so the only difference is the size of the dot?....also when I read the description the lowest price model says only the sight, the slightly more expensive and 6 Moa version comes with the mounting screws, cover, etc. that's when I was confused it the one for less $$ was an older version and is a 3.25 dot....what size is yours?
I wonder how it is with astigmatism.
Depends on you and how bright you keep it
I have pretty bad astigmatism, but I find that red dots and red lasers seem to "smear out" less than white light point sources. I think maybe the shorter wavelength of red light helps a bit.
Mine blinked out at 400 rounds sent it back to Sig.
that's unfortunate - it's looking more and more like I got lucky.
The 1 pro costs 120 more...Is Better or more less the Same ? Thx
Same with different footprint and shroud
@@TheHumbleMarksman what u mean with footprint?
@@dinodini547 How the screws and recoil bosses mate with the slide - like an RMR footprint vs. a deltapoint pro footprint.
The beavis and butthead did it for me. Im subscribed
Why do you like it better than the DPP?
The green glass keeps the dot a bit sharper for my mild astigmatism. I let a shooter compare it to my DPP and he said the opposite with a pretty acute astigmatism. The up/down buttons is nicer than the single button- the shorter cowitness irons is nice. DPP I like the window, battery door better.
@@TheHumbleMarksman well crap. I just ordered the DPP in the hope's my astigmatism will be better than on the Venom.
My buddy has an awful astigmatism - he likes the DPP better than the R1. He also had good luck with the trijicon.
You should have gone Deltapoint pro, the Romeo 1 licks a sack. It's made of magnesium, the only thing less durable than the housing and the finish is peanut brittle.
I have 3 DPP.
@@TheHumbleMarksman should of made it 4.
eh - for range use it's fine. it's not a fence post puncher optic - but I'm not a fence post puncher.
I think the ACRO is going to out RMR the RMR - I'm looking at swapping out to that on my carry gun then I'll have my match gun set up, practice gun set up and my warranty optic in standby when my first optic breaks - which is the way of things for a slide ride dot shooter.
Beavis and Butthead was the correct touch.
are you an engineer?
By training/profession: no - but I'm in a field that comes across as very engineer-y with plenty of simple match and technical writing/contract stuff. So I come across that way but don't have the mental horsepower to back it up.
Stay firsty my friends!
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Man! It took a lot for me continuously watch this video with how fugly that pistol is. 🤮
Outstanding review otherwise!