Leupold DeltaPoint Micro Pistol Sight, Low Profile 3 MOA Red Dot Handgun Optic

Installed on my S&W M&P .40 easily enough. Great quality and low profile for easy conceal carry. Adjustable red dot for day or night use. Fits the fun perfectly and easy to change battery and zero in the sights.

Good quality product, innovative design, and very good support from the company. I bought this optic to attach to a pistol for pocket carry when I discovered that due to macular degeneration I could no longer see my iron sights. It is extremely low profile, and thanks to the enclosed design, durable. The optic lines up on a target like iron sights, so presentation is natural for someone used to iron sights on a pistol. But because of the small window, it is slower to acquire the dot than with a normal sized red dot, though. I'm sad to say that I believe that it will always be a little slower than a normal red dot to acquire a sight picture. Some Operaters out there will cry, "proper presentation!", but I believe that the need for self defense doesn't always happen when both your hands are free and you are square on with a target. However, I have discovered that the enclosure tube of the red dot is small enough to work as a reliable ghost ring sight for close-up targets. With medium and long distance targets, I believe one can spend the extra tenth of a second to acquire a proper sight picture. The good news is that this sight is incredible at medium to long distances, and I regularly ring bells at distances that I gave up trying to attempt years ago with iron sights. I heartily recommend this optic to anyone with elderly eyes for range use, and I recommend it to anyone for defensive use if they understand the above caveats. This is a top quality innovative optic, with unique strengths and weaknesses. You decide if it is right for you.

This sight has some great advantages and a few disadvantages. These are only my opinions so go easy, you may get different results. Pros; -Very easy to install. You don’t have to buy a special slide or have yours milled so keep that in mind when considering the price. -Great for hitting targets at longer distances. It’s easy to hold the dot on distant targets. -Dot is easily visible no matter how bright the sun is. Cons; -It’s slower than iron sights or lasers. With practice I’ve got my time to acquire the dot on target down to about one full second. By comparison my Crimson Trace laser equipped Glock acquires the target almost instantly. For defense that one second is a lot. I may get better with more practice. The disadvantage of the laser is that it disappears if the target is in direct sunlight at more than five yards. Even in shade it won’t really work passed fifteen yards, but the Delta Point micro is visible at any distance since it doesn’t actually project a light. I guess it really depends on what you’re using it for. For target shooting or if you need to make long shots I would definitely go with the Delta Point Micro but for defense where speed matters, unless I get a lot faster with target acquisition using this sight I would opt for open sights or a laser.

Mounted this on a Gen5 G17. As an acquaintance snidely put it, it sort of looks like the creature from the movie Alien, when the newly hatched infant creature attached itself to its sacrificial human host. I dunno about that, but it does take some getting used to from an aesthetic standpoint. No RMR here, or DeltaPoint Pro for that matter. So far it works, and does it well. However I am concerned about how much play the adjustment pots for both elevation and windage are. There are no adjustment setting detents at all for tactile 1/4" or 1/2" per click adjustments....because there ain't no clicks. The pots turn smoothly, and alarmingly loosely with little resistance in travel. But so far both elevation and windage settings have held fairly well though I keep having the feeling that this probably won't last. In other words, those adjustment pots don't inspire a lot of confidence. However I can only realistically judge on what the Micro has done so far, and so far I like how it's performed. It comes up much more naturally on the draw, with little to no motion/muscular modification adjustment by me over how I normally sight with regular open sights on the pistol. With a typical reflex red dot optic like a Trijicon RMR or Holosun HS507c with the appropriate adapter plate on the firearm, I have to draw quite differently to compensate for those sights' higher viewing plane or line compared to traditional open iron sights (or plastic, as what's typically supplied by Glock from the factory). That's what has driven me nuts about red dots mounted to a G19 or G23. Decades of shooting those have forever tailored my draw such that adjusting for the higher viewing plane of an RMR or HS507c on an MOS version of the G17 kinda sucks. It doesn't feel second-nature anymore. The draw become conscious again, when before without a reflex optic the draw action was more or less automatic. Trying to teach this old dog a new trick hasn't been easy, at least as far as Glocks are concered. Not so with the DeltaPoint Micro. Its sighting plane nearly matches the sighting plane of open sights. Little to no physical readjustment of how I bring the pistol out of the holster is needed, unlike how I suffer whenever I use one of my Glock MOSes with a RMR-style reflex optic. The Glock with the Micro on board comes up out of the holster far more closely to what I'm used to when I'm using regular factory/aftermarket open sights. Instinctive drawing is suddenly back on the table again. More rounds need to be pushed through this pistol to see if this particular Micro will hold up over time to punishment inherent with slide cycling. However I now have the new SCS MOS sight from Holosun, which allows for direct mounting to a MOS Glock slide without any need for an adapter plate, thereby lowering the optic down to the regular open sight targeting plane. Furthermore Holosun greatly reduced the rim height of the SCS which brings the sight window to be much closer to the slide...and the pistol's regular open sights. No suppressor height cowitnessing necessary. And more importantly to me, a much more familiar "muscle memory" draw with the pistol. Which means that I probably won't shoot the OTHER Glock 17 with the Leupold Micro nearly as much...because in the end it's still weird-looking. Not a great reason I admit, but the SCS looks more 'regular', and the Micro just doesn't. Still, I'm so far guardedly impressed by the performance of the DeltaPoint Micro. The adjustment pots still feel like they can be a weakness but so far that hasn't shown itself to actually be that. If it ever does show itself in that manner, then it's a case of "I told myself so" and that I should've just sent it back. But I haven't and I won't. It's a Leupold after all, and I'm very much a fan of their optics. Only time will tell if they got this one right, and I'm willing to give it a serious try...as long as the new Holosun SCS will give me enough time (and ammo) to properly vet it out. 4 stars so far.