My agency has issued roughly around 150 P2s, plus many dozens of individual purchases and we’ve had very few issues or failures across a fairly large sample size. The MPS on the other hand has been pitifully bad with a ton of failures. They fail so often Steiner eventually sent us a small reserve supply of replacement optics to help keep officers up and running during warranty claims. Which was nice of them, but just speaks to how unreliable this optic is. As much as I’d love to run an SRO at work I’ve had issues with mine in the rain during matches. Enclosed emitter is still the way to go for certain uses and unfortunately the P2, 509T, and maybe RCR are the only viable options we have to choose from.
I have had really good luck with my MPS. Had 2 holosun enclosed fail, but for the cost, if the MPS cant stat operational, I will be going bsck to the RMR or irons! I went enclosee because of rain and snow, was at a class and saw the front lens of an ACRO pop out. Steiner makes really good optics and their warranty and service is impeccable.
You have the old version of the MPS which had a horrible battery cap. They’ve since redesigned the battery cap, which can be identified by having a slightly domed shape on top unlike your flat one. Steiner has an excellent warranty department- I’ve sent 4 MPS back to them for non catastrophic failures and they always sent me a brand new replacement. I’ve since replaced all my MPS with the Lead & Steel PB-3. It combines the best of the Acro and MPS with some additional improvements. It’s built like a tank. So far so good
Top mount emitter on the MPS seems to significantly reduce false dots with the sun in the background, but makes for a lot of optic body in your field of view and a really cluttered window with tall irons. Using either no irons or a taller "normal" set works much better. Battery cap might be worse than the Acro - impossibly shallow and easily damaged with their tool. Battery life is not that good compared to much of what is out there. Also not a very bright dot unless you enable auto-shutoff (with auto-shutoff turned on you get access to max brightness, it is locked out of auto-shutoff is disabled. Glass clarity is great (probably why battery life sucks), buttons have good feel, the dot is the most astigmatism friendly one I've seen, and the design is eye catching, though.
This is why Holosun gets my money. Maybe they aren't the absolute best out there (although some could argue that), but the failure rate of pistol dots seems to be relatively high regardless of the manufacturer. Keeping that in mind, why would you ever pay $500+ for a pistol dot...
Never had an issue with any of mine. Beat the heck out of them water, dirt, drop test, 1200 plus rounds. I think if you shave the beard it may help the optic work better.
Ill likely be in the minority here, but as far as the mailbox RDS go, I like my L&S PB-3 more than my ACRO...but then again I prefer the SRO to both of those. I have a Platypus with a DPPro and the single button control makes me want to ND a full mag into the sky.
Same exact result on the battery tray on the Steiner. Love it as a dot. Great to roll around in the dirt with and lay on. Battery tray sucks out loud. 😂
Jesus. That ACRO battery tray looks even WORSE than it looked on Instagram. In the enclosed segment: I’d say the 509T and the RCR are the only ones I haven’t really seen or heard wild issues with. Honorable mention the EPS but to me it’s a 509T variant. So I group them similarly. I wish we could get a bigger window 509T. Like an enclosed 507Comp. I’ve got 2 507Comps and I love them. I just dislike cleaning them daily. Yes. It’s a laziness thing, but I don’t care 😂
Dig my 2 MPS’s. They break super regularly around 4-6k rounds but Steiner keeps replacing them so I’m on my 4th and 5th ones! Battery cap is also annoying
Interesting because I literally threw my MPS on concrete 50 times to test an optics plate. Still took 5k rounds to kill that optic. I sent it in and had a new one from Steiner in 3 days. Not sure but I've had nothing but excellent experience with them
