The Trijicon RCR’s Mounting System

Demand for extra ruggedized duty-grade enclosed emitter pistol mounted optics is at an all time excessive, which is why Trijicon responded to the market by releasing the RCR in the course of the summer season of 2023. The RCR is the Michigan firm’s first duty-grade enclosed-emitter reflex sight. Remember the fact that all of Trijicon’s micro reflex sights (besides the smaller RMR CC) use the RMR footprint. This contains the RMR, the SRO and the newly launched RMR HD. 

With only a few exceptions (see Holosun EPS/Carry), just about all enclosed emitter optics available on the market are mounted to slides or optics plates by way of a lateral clamping drive, not not like the way in which Picatinny primarily based mounts clamp onto Picatinny railed surfaces. The Aimpoint ACRO sample is the clear chief for enclosed emitter footprint types. This differs from the way through which most different [open emitter] reflex sights are anchored to a slide, which is by way of a pair of vertically oriented screws. Like each different enclosed-emitter design save for the Holosun EPS, the Trijicon RCR has no overtly accessible screw holes both. Nevertheless, it doesn’t use a side-clamping fastening sample. So what’s the Trijicon RCR’s footprint? The identical and unique RMR footprint! However the RMR footprint takes vertical screws, so how is the RCR mounted? 

ENTER THE CAPSTAN

A capstan is one thing discovered on ships and docks of outdated. It’s a horizontal pulley with slots close to the highest that sailors would connect rods into for leverage. With their rods inserted, a crew of males was in a position to apply torque to show the capstan, which may present a mechanical benefit in an effort to transfer or raise issues related by ropes. Equally, Trijicon developed particular screws with heads tall sufficient to drill slots into. These screws preserve the identical thread pitch as another RMR spec screw.

The concept behind Trijicon’s capstan screws to lock the RCR is that they match throughout the unit’s slots, and one inserts a small, skinny allen wrench into the screw head’s slots to tighten the screw down. Consider the sailors inserting their rods into the capstan to show it. Trijicon will instruct the person to comfortable up the capstan screws. Clearly these can’t be torqued by way of regular means, corresponding to with assistance from Repair-It Sticks. As an alternative, Trijicon features a small card with numerous graduated markings. The capstan screws are correctly tightened when the allen wrench can bend previous 4 of those markings. Don’t neglect the thread locker previous to tightening them (a small vial of blue Locte is included with the RCR).

HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO

Trijicon’s ingenious resolution is necessary due to the recognition of the RMR footprint sample. In addition to Trijicon, different corporations have adopted it and make lots of their wares appropriate with this footprint. It’s honest to say that the RMR footprint holds a great portion of the market share. That the RCR is an enclosed-emitter dot however can nonetheless use the standard RMR footprint is a reasonably large deal. Not solely is that this footprint a part of Trijicon’s legacy and model id, the RCR might be mounted on rattling close to each gun that already makes use of the RMR sample. These implications are necessary as a result of it signifies that shooters now have the choice of a totally American-made enclosed emitter reflex sight. I occur to make use of Trijicon RMR sample plates with each of the PDPs I’ve been taking pictures, so mounting my T&E RCR unit to my Walther PDP Match Metal Body pistol was pretty simple.

AFFIXING THE TRIJICON RCR

In addition to studying this piece, I strongly suggest for anybody to observe the video beneath, it’s value one thousand phrases. Truthfully, set up is sort of simple although tightening the screws by inserting and extracting the small allen wrench into the holes to show the capstan screws can change into somewhat tedious, however not really tough. On the time of this writing, I’ve solely mounted the RCR and dry-fired with it. However I’m very to see how the capstan screw system will play out after I shoot this new red-dot sight on my Walther PDP Match SF.