Lucid HD7

[jhawknokc]

I just bought one of these a couple weeks ago trying to not spend as much for an eotech/aimpoint but avoid the junk stuff. When I got it and looked through it, the greenish/blue tint was terrible. It makes everybody look like a smurf.

I guess the buy once cry once holds true. Contacted Lucid to make sure it wasn't defective, told me it wasn't, now returning it to start saving towards an eotech.

 

[ez bake]

That blue-green tint isn't nearly as bad outside in bright daytime sunlight. Have you mounted it and tried it outside?

 

[jhawknokc]

No, but for 150 more I could get an eotech and not worry about it. If it was $50, it'd be one thing. I'm sure there good, but from what I read and saw, these were best bang for the buck red dots. I guess just not for me. Do you have one and does it do the same?

 

[ez bake]

No, but for 150 more I could get an eotech and not worry about it. If it was $50, it'd be one thing. I'm sure there good, but from what I read and saw, these were best bang for the buck red dots. I guess just not for me. Do you have one and does it do the same?

The tint is a little much indoors, but outside, they work very well (I got to shoot a few hundred rounds through a friends AR with one mounted). IMHO, the best bang-for-buck red-dot is Primary Arms, followed by Vortex, followed by Lucid and then followed by IOR Valdada's red-dots.

After that, you're in high-end optic territory and I personally would skip EOTECH and get a used Aimpoint Comp ML3 for better money (I've owned two Comp M3s, an ML3, and a Tan 556 and preferred the Aimpoints to the EOTECHs).