{"id":110798,"date":"2021-05-17T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/?p=110798"},"modified":"2023-05-23T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:03:34","slug":"holosun-510c-an-affordable-reflex-sight-but-rtfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/holosun-510c-an-affordable-reflex-sight-but-rtfm\/","title":{"rendered":"Holosun 510C \u2014 An Affordable Reflex Sight, but RTFM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was sent a Holosun 510C reflex sight to review. This specific model\u2019s reticle features a red, 65 minutes-of-angle circle\/open crosshair with a 2 MOA dot in the middle, more or less a copy of the reticle designed by EO Tech more than 15 years ago. Unlike the EOTech<\/a>, the Holosun sight is made in China.<\/p>\n

As I discussed in my review of the Sig Sauer Romeo-5 sight<\/a>, there was a time not long ago when optics imported from China were generally, for lack of a better word, crap.<\/em> That is not the case today, and many of the optics being imported now offer a lot of features at affordable prices.<\/p>\n

Some readers may express a hesitation to purchase a product made in China. This is understandable from a certain viewpoint. As much as the United States has normalized relations with China in the past 20 years, the country is still a totalitarian police state ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. Their human rights record is egregious, up to and including the ongoing persecution of the Uighur minority. The CCP\u2019s embrace of some capitalist economic policies (which undoubtedly would have Mao rolling in his grave) hasn\u2019t changed what they are: a brutal, tyrannical regime with a stranglehold on the world\u2019s most populous nation.<\/p>\n

All that said, it helps to be realistic about the situation. The United States spent many years economically entangling itself with China, prodded along by our own government and business interests. While the winds seem to be changing presently, untangling ourselves from them will be a long and painful process, if it happens at all. Go to any major retail outlet and hunt for products not<\/em> made in China and you\u2019ll see what I mean. Odds are, the computer or phone you\u2019re reading this on was either made in China or is made from components that were manufactured there. So were many components of your car.<\/p>\n

Many optics companies use Chinese manufacturing or components these days, even traditionally American brands (especially the glass- almost all of it is from Germany, Japan, or China). Such is the nature of the current global supply chain, whether we like it or not. It\u2019s probably also worth pointing out that the Chinese workers who make the products you consume have no say in what their government does one way or another.<\/p>\n

Holosun 510C Specs<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re not interested in the philosophical or economic discussion and just want to know about the sight, its specifications are as follows:<\/p>\n

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