Has anyone seen this? I am new to pistol optics, but the mounting seems to make alot of sense.
I wonder how the optic is with astigmatism.
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I had known about it for a few months now, but just the patents and not the actual images. Seeing it I can easily guess why they’re not calling it the ACRO P3 despite having most of the features from it; the optic pattern is different.
I like that they angled the front to survive being surfaced impacted with one handed drills.
Because it’s a Glock and an Aimpoint, I am very interested in getting the G45 version at least.
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COA! Aimpoint classic pricing, I can’t wait for the chuckle!
Not on the 40 cal guns? PISS OFF, Aimpoint!
The mounting does look good. FINALLY, someone addressing the shit pistol mounting we suffer through.
I was dreaming of a direct mount ACRO P2 for the G22 MOS Glock.
I absolutely won’t do a plate system. Especially on 40 cal. The good news is my G22 MOS that’s shipping didn’t just get absoleted by this new sight set up since they shunned 40. I’d have had to order another Glock.
The only reason that they even offered a Gen 5 in 40 was for those still using that caliber. If a big enough agency that issues the G22 Gen 5 asks for it and gets it, we all know that people will want it too.
And we all know that Glock almost gives it away to departments.
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The gun world is so sheepy and dumb. I wouldn’t be surprised if the flock hoofed it back to 40 cal in the next decade.
Make one last wick movie with a 40 glock and get one agency, like you said, and stampede!
A lot of the guys I shoot with act like I’m hurting them by running a 40 cal. I should buy a 357 sig to really ferk them up!!
I might be down for one of these in the G47 variant, assuming GT Distributors catalogs one on the Blue Label program. Seems like it would be backwards compatible with my G19.5 MOS, so I could have a “G49” for carry with Aimpoint reliability & durability.
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If either Glock or Aimpoint is dumb enough to not allow the competition to use this mounting standard, it’s probably doomed.
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Not everyone wants a Glock, and definitely not every Glock shooter wants to be limited to which pistol he buys to get the system, and…
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Not everyone wants to run the “mailbox” on top of his pistol.
I have a weird feeling that Glock and Aimpoint are going to make the bad decision to keep the system proprietary. Just my outsider guess.
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Not really interested but when both companies are losing market share to Holosun, Walther and Sig for LE…they had to do something.
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This mounting system is the first that makes sense to me. It locks the optic to the slide with no need for a mounting plate. One of the reasons I haven’t jumped on board the pistol RDS bandwagon is the different mounting systems and ways to install different optics that just seems easy to screw up. I wouldn’t even know where to start. Just too many variables for my simple mind.
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This is a perfect example of why anyone making absolutes in the 2A world, is making a false assertion.
Good articulation of your thought about it.
By the by, I am now more interested in Primary Arm’s first USA made red dot and an ACRO clone.
FCD will be making optic plates for this, in case anyone is interested in just the red dot itself.
It’s a friggin tard fest. I just jumped in when I found that Holosun makes a direct mount to the Glock MOS with no batteries to change. Zero chance I’d ever use a plate mount.
I agree that this is the first glimmer of hope of a way out of the completely unacceptable RDS mounting mess.
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The only thing that would bring back the dying 40 short and wobbly would be a capacity ban. I could see 40 having and advantage over 9 when they will have the same capacity. And they might finally choke the 45 aarp to death.
And i am not caliber biast, I own, shoot and carry 9mm, 40, 45 and 10mm. I only exclusively shoot 9mm because of the price per round. at 1-3k rounds a month. It adds up.
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Not to tangent off into caliber debates, but to me the 45 acp, which I do own, is dead lately.
I never heard of “short and wobbly”, I remember it being called “shore & weak”. Ironically now all those guys are running 9mm, I’m sure.
I vow to keep the men’s division alive by shooting as much 40 cal that I can! 
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I don’t know why they didn’t come out instead with an Acro P2 cut to match the MOS configuration, so it would go directly into any and all MOS slides. Similar to the Holosun SCS MOS model. No, they rather limit the choices.
I am using Acro P2s on a couple of Glocks with a plate. It works great, but it would be better without a plate.
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I’ve always seen the MOS as minimum effort “universal fit” platform. Not ideal for direct mounting. Mediocre/bad for plate use, but overall a “good enough” feature until the market came up with an ideal mounting platform. Since no manufacture has yet created a platform everyone/most can agree is the best, it makes sense to try another.
Since the ACRO footprint has had limited success with a few minor brands copying the footprint, but the dubious reliability and mediocre feature set of the P1/P2, starting fresh with an endorsement from essentially the “universal pistol” makes sense. I hope it’s good enough to become a standard, and finally allow the market to focus on other aspects of sights, rather than just another proprietary footprint.
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My SCS MOS just arrived. I’m no fan of the plate either.
I too could get excited about a direct ACRO P2 mount to Glock.
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I hope you are right, and it would make sense if Glocks abandons the MOS cut for this one moving forward.
But this appears to be a special run, otherwise they would have offered it for every Glock model.
There are so many MOS Glocks out there that changing the Acro cut to match would have been easier. Let’s see.
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While I don’t think the MOS is going anywhere, anytime soon, a universal pistol mount has to start somewhere, and RMR, Doctor, RMSc, etc, ain’t it.
One of the, if not the biggest advantage of the COA, is there are no screw holes (for mounting) anywhere on the unit. I don’t think many realize how big that is. You save so much space/engineering by not having to accommodate screw planes. This allows you to move EVERYTHING lower, and distributes the shock across the whole optic. Even the ACRO and 509t footprints lose much space to the integrated micro-pic mount.
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