Sightron SRS-2 : The Best Competition Red Dot You've Never Heard Of

In this review we'll cover the Sightron SRS-2, the best competitive shooting budget red dot on the market that no-one has ever heard of.
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We'll test all of its best features and run multiple drills including live fire and dry fire to test this pistol optic.

The sightron SRS2 excels in areas of durability, brightness, window size, glass clarity, and emitter brightness. It has all of the features you'd want for competition shooting. Most frequently, these are the features that are lacking in budget optics, yet the Sightron SRS-2 has all of these. It might be the only budget pistol red dot that does that set of features well. However, it lacks many of the duty red dot features you'd care about: foot print, size, concealability, battery life, and shake awake. It has an incredibly low price tag often going on sale for $130 or less. Being made with Japanese glass which is unheard of at this price point, it has super clear glass with a great window size. It seems to be pretty durable in my limited testing, and it has a very bright emitter. It's lacking in the other areas, but given that it nails many of the important ones for competitive shooting, I'll be so bold as to make the claim that this is one of the most under rated and unheard of red dot optics on the market, especially if your goal is to use this for competition shooting.

I was intrigued by the fact that this thing was on sale for $130 and had Japanese glass. it seemed like a chance to be able to mount it to my Canik TP9 SFX and possibly replace the vortex venom I've been running on it. However this didn't quite work out, which I'll explain later in the video.

The sightron ships with a pic rail adapter; however, so I quickly mounted this up to the only pic rail pistol I own, don't roll your eyes, the Heritage Tactical Cowboy.

I was quite happy with the performance. As mentioned, the SRS-2's glass is very clear, exactly what you'd expect from Japanese glass. The window size is large for a pistol optic.

The emitter is super bright. The settings are adjustable via very high quality tactile push buttons on the side of the optic. The optic did great on a bright florida morning, I'd say it is quite a bit brighter than the vortex venom and comparable to the super bright emitters that Holosun optics have.

The sight feels pretty durable, although granted, I don't have a lot of rounds through it quite yet.

It ran well in bill drills and 2-2-2 drills. I'm not super revolver savvy, I almost never shoot them, so difficulty here was more in regards to my inexperience with revolvers than it was with the optic being difficult to use.

The included pic rail gives extra utility if you want to mount this on something else like a rifle Platform. Similarly, an included plastic sunshade makes this more aesthetically pleasing when mounting to rifle platforms. I have it mounted here to a Sirt STIC for some rifle dry fire training.

The optic is very responsive on a rifle platform when mounted with a picatinny riser mount. I was able to tear through this dueling tree testing with my soon to be announced, Project MARS: Marksmanship Augmented Reality Simulators, which will be an affordable suite of dryfire tools so that you can train at home.

So all that said this is a really sharp optic in all of the areas that really matter most for competitive shooting. It could make a good production USPSA optic on a fixed rail racegun, or I could see it being used in Pistol Caliber Carbine divisions. It also would have a place on rimfire rifles in steel challenge. I will most likely save this optic to mount it to my TX-22 when I get the competition slide replacement.

Modern pistol red dots that are tailored to concealed carry or duty contexts often have additional battery saving features like shake awake.

You can see that the mounting pattern to the CANIK TP9SFX adapter plate sits the optic too far up that it wouldn't line up with the slide cuts. I imagine other optic mounting plates might have similar issues if the plate is recessed into the slide.

The larger size of the optic also makes it more suitable for competition than for concealed carry.

However, none of the above are deal breakers given the things that the optic does well at its price point and given its target use case of competitive shooting.

At the low price point, it is definitely one of the most if not the most under rated and unheard of pistol red dots currently on the market. This is definitely one that has flown under the radar so if you can find one during a sale and you want to mount this up to a competition or range gun, the SRS-2 may be the option for you.