Adapting RMR cut slide to use Vortex red dot?

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  • KYtoMD

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    Mar 23, 2017
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    Would this be feasible with adapter plates similar to the Glock MOS system, or is the difference between RMR and Vortex mounting patterns too different to adapt?
     

    erwos

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    Mar 25, 2009
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    Sort of... the Vortex/FF3 is longer than the RMR. Your adapter would raise the optic to the top of the slide, at which point you'd arguably be better off with something like a dovetail mount.

    Save up for that RMR, in other words... you can find them for $300-$350 or less if you wait for the right deal.
     

    Russ D

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    Nov 10, 2008
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    You need one of these.
     

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    Mt Airy

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    Here is a burris fast fire III and a EGW mount that goes in the dove tail .
     

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    Racer Doug14

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    Here is a burris fast fire III and a EGW mount that goes in the dove tail .

    That doesn't look good. Surely functional. Better to get the Trijicon or Holosun. I got my 80% slide with the rmr cut. Thinking it was an industry standard. But, then as I waded into the RD madness. I learned that there are like 3 prevailing patterns.
     

    Mt Airy

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    That doesn't look good. Surely functional. Better to get the Trijicon or Holosun. I got my 80% slide with the rmr cut. Thinking it was an industry standard. But, then as I waded into the RD madness. I learned that there are like 3 prevailing patterns.

    What does not look good?? It shoots great . It was a solution when I was having trouble seeing the front sight.

    To me it looks like a Trijicon or Holosun . But i am not all about pritty more about function.

    I dont know of another way to mount it lower on a 1911.
     

    baltech

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    Feb 23, 2013
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    I bought a swenson slide with Vortex/Burris cut. About $180.00 on sale. Then waited for fastfire 3 to go on sale about $190.00. Im like the setup.
     

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    kraftyone

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    I bought the Brownells RMR cut slide expecting to get a Holosun 507c. Lucky me they recalled them and I don’t want to spend the money to buy a RMR. Guess I will just wait for the Holosun to come back in stock.
     

    Racer Doug14

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    What does not look good?? It shoots great . It was a solution when I was having trouble seeing the front sight.

    To me it looks like a Trijicon or Holosun . But i am not all about pritty more about function.

    I dont know of another way to mount it lower on a 1911.

    I wasn't meaning to offend. It justs looks tall and like you said, a solution. Yes, outside of shipping it out to be milled, that's is the only solution. Does your POI change a lot with different distances?
     

    Mt Airy

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    Yea I knew what you were saying. You did not offend me . It shoots same poi at 10 to 25 yards but i mainly shoot at 25yds. I would not even think about having that slide milled. I did the same with a S&W mod 41 .


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