Earlier this year, at the inaugural 5.7 Fest held at Range Ready, home of the Gun Talk folks, we had a chance to try out a wide variety of firearms chambered in 5.7x28 mm with assorted ammunition and related gear. One of the companies providing gear was Steiner Optics, which brought a number of red-dot sights and low-power variable optics to be tested on pistol, large-format pistol and carbine platforms.
We’ve run the MPS, Steiner’s enclosed-emitter red-dot sight, on a Glock G19 handgun for “I Carry,” and found the sight to be fast to acquire and crisp. One of the major advantages the red-dot sight brings to a handgun is increased precision—simply put, most iron-sight arrangements occlude a significantly larger portion of a target than even the largest of pistol red-dot sights. For those of us with imperfect vision, red-dot sights are one way to shoot more precisely with handguns, but the caveat is that the dot needs to be crisp and adjustable. The MPS is all this and then some.
When it comes to low-power, variable optics (LPVO), Steiner’s excellent T6Xi offered superlative glass and clarity and complemented the Ruger LC Carbines in 5.7 mm wonderfully on the longer courses of fire. Granted, this wasn’t hundreds of yards away, only 50 to 75, but this is a distance at which the 5.7 mm round is well-suited. Accuracy was very nearly perfect, with one of the sharpshooters in our group missing the “X” ring only a single time out of 10 rounds – while shooting against the clock and a bunch of other highly competitive shooters.
Here we talk with Jacob Eaton from Steiner about the red-dot sights used in this event, as well as other products available from Steiner. For more information on the sights and scopes used, visit steiner-optics.com.
