1 review for Swampfox Sentinel Ultra-Compact Micro Red Dot Sight
Swampfox Sentinel Ultra-Compact Micro Red Dot Sight
Original price was: $129.99.$119.99Current price is: $119.99.
REAL WORLD, REAL ADVANTAGE
Slide mounted red dot sights are taking the law enforcement and competition worlds by storm, and for good reason. The advantages of target-focused sighting, quicker sight tracking for faster follow up shots, and increased accuracy all apply just as much to concealed carry as they do to duty or competition use. It’s a real performance boost, day or night.
Two Sentinel models stand ready to meet the challenges of everyday carry. Sentinel-M is the manual press button version, and Sentinel-A features fully automatic brightness adjustment.
MANUAL VS. AUTOMATIC, THE CHOICE IS YOURS
Sentinel-M features ten manually adjusted brightness settings accessed via digital push buttons. Shake ‘N Wake motion sensing illumination preserves battery life when Sentinel-M has been motionless for about 4 minutes. As soon as motion resumes, Sentinel-M resumes its previous brightness level. Manually shut off Sentinel-M by pressing the brightness DOWN button for 3 seconds.
Sentinel-A truly never sleeps. A photosensitive sensor on the left side of the scope body provides a bright dot relative to ambient light in all conditions, day or night. There are no manual controls at all, no Shake ‘N Wake– no way for Sentinel-A to be accidentally shut off, ever. Install the CR2032 battery underneath Sentinel-A and you’re good to go for two years straight– there’s nothing to fiddle with.
BRIGHTER DOT, LONGER BATTERY LIFE
Like Liberty and Justice, Sentinel uses a high efficiency emitter projecting a 3 MOA red dot. Sentinel’s highest setting is brighter than any other current Swampfox red dot.
There is no room for a robust and strong tray system with such a small footprint, so replacing Sentinel’s battery means removing the optic and potentially re-zeroing.
The good news is, deleting the tray system creates space to use a larger CR2032 battery, effectively doubling battery life. Whether you choose Sentinel-M or Sentinel-A, expect two years of real-world battery life, even carrying your pistol all day everyday.
A FUSION OF METAL AND GLASS
Other companies are producing slimline pistol dots with plastic bodies and clear polymer lenses.
No thanks. That’s not our style.
Sentinel is crafted from CNC machined 7075-T6 aluminum, hard coated in matte black, and features multicoated glass of the same excellent quality used in our long-range precision rifle scopes.
BUT WHAT DOES IT FIT?
Sentinel is really small. About an inch tall, an inch wide, and 1.6 inches long. Shoehorned into this tiny scope is a 16mm x 16mm window, big enough for fast acquisition and sight tracking, small enough that it doesn’t affect concealability even a little.
Sentinel will fit the Sig P365XL, Springfield Hellcat OSP, Canik Elite SC, S&W Shield 2.0 Optics Ready, Walther PPS M2 Optics Ready– any slimline slide with an RMSc footprint incorporated, either factory or gunsmith cut.
ULTRA DEPENDABLE
A concealed carry optic must be ultra dependable, because you are literally betting your life that it will be ready when called upon. Some pistols, like the P365XL shown opposite, have no way to co-witness iron sights once a dot is installed. If your dot goes down there are no other sights.
Sentinel is “dunk it” waterproof when installed using the included flexible seal that fits between the optic and footprint. It is shock rated to an incredible 1500 G.
GO FORTH AND SHOOT 50,000 ROUNDS
Fortune favors the prepared, right? So get out there and train hard. As the round count climbs, as you earn the holster wear on that pistol, as you replace recoil springs and mag springs, and yes batteries too, Sentinel won’t give up, and neither will we.
If Sentinel does stop performing within 50,000 rounds of live fire, Swampfox will repair or replace it promptly. That’s our code. That’s our word.
Alex –
Mounted the 6MOA version on my EDC Glock 43X and it’s been flawless. The shake-awake feature works perfectly – stays active during range days and conserves battery when holstered. The red dot is daylight bright even under Arizona sun, and the slim profile doesn’t snag during concealed draw. One months of daily carry and it still holds zero perfectly. Game-changer for defensive pistol setups.