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The Strongest RDS Plate
The Strongest RDS PlatE. Wilson Combat True Zero.

Perhaps this is a rhetorical question that only interests me. But with all the drama on the internet regarding broken RDS plates, I figured this was a question worth at least putting my two cents in. 

The Wilson True Zero RDS plate and optic is the very first red dot I have seriously run on a pistol. And I confess, when I first saw it things seemed beefy. Perhaps too beefy? Not sure. 

Now that we are over 11,000 rounds later, I have thoughts:

  1. It’s not too beefy.
  2. It looks big primarily because the SRO is big. 
  3. The objective of the SRO sits pretty low actually. 
  4. Bill Wilson states they engineered this system with lugs absorbing the recoil forces. Not relying on the screws to do that work.
  5. It seems systems that fail rely on screws to work as lugs. 
  6. Everyone who is breaking plates is doing so on 9mm handguns. Wilson being a 1911 company, had to design a RDS plate that would always work with 45 caliber recoil. 
  7. This gun has been shot, dropped, racked one handed, and subjected to more rapid fire drills than I could possibly count. 
  8. Zero issues. None. 

My next RDS gun will also have the True Zero plate installed. But that’s a discussion for a post in the future. 

 

 

Sincerely,

Marky

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