Sig Romeo 7 Opmod FDE Review

Good morning everyone, hope you’re all having a wonderful day today. Today we’re gonna talk about one of my favorite badget-ish red dots on the market and that is, of course, SIG Romeo 7.

Full disclosure on the SIG Romeo 7 is that I have absolutely no affiliation SIG whatsoever, I purchased this from OpticsPlanet, it was on the sale. This is the OpticsPlanet’s modification which comes in a very nice FDE. I believe I paid for it on sale 170 dollars, usually the SIG Romeo 7 is anywhere from 170 to 220 depending on price and sales and stuff like that. The OpticsPlanet mod is usually in the higher category 200 to 220 dollars again I just happened to pick it up while it was on sale because it is one of my favorite if not m favorite budget red dot and it should be noted that on my personal channel I do have a sponsorship affiliation with OpticsPlanet but gun.deals has no affiliation with them whatsoever for this review and we don’t have any relationship at all with SIG.

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That all being said the most important thing about SIG Romeo 7 FDE the opmod version or the opmod version is that it looks cool, that’s the most important thing about the FDE version so if you’re interested in picking one up for looking cool that is absolutely the biggest selling point.

Basics

Let’s go ahead and get into some of the boring basics on the SIG Romeo 7 so as you can tell it is a very large 30 millimeter body what that means is that you get a much larger viewing window. Now, that’s not really a necessarily performance increase in terms of window size, more often than not it is a preference. I personally prefer larger windows. Does it actually inhibit my performance on a smaller 20 millimeter window? Not really but for me personally again I do just like larger windows and I know a lot of other people do.

The SIG Romeo 7 is kind of based off the Aimpoint Comp M4, this is kind of cope M4 if you will so it shares a lot of characteristics with that optic for about a quarter of the cost. Now, nice thing about that is it does actually share mounts with the comp M4 so there are a plethora of aftermarket mounts that you can get that will fit your SIG Romeo 7 and we’ll go over the setup on this one specifically a little bit later on.

Optic

The optic itself is just under 5 inches long which for a red dot is very long, it is a big chunky red dot for sure. Now, standard the SIG Romeo 7 comes with both a low mount and a lower one-third QD mount. The low mount is not QD and, of course, lower one-third is QD depending on whether or not you’re a fan of QD mounts or not, that could be an issue however they do again make aftermarket risers for the low mounts so you can put your SIG Romeo 7 at whatever height that you want. Now, with that additional length and girth you are, of course, getting a heavier red dot. This one comes with the standard mounts at 12.5 ounces and, of course, if you start adding in taller and taller risers you’re going to be adding to that weight in just a little bit.

The body itself is 60-61 aluminum T6 and hard-coat-anodized. This one here, of course, comes in the OpticsPlanet FDE which again looks really cool. On the side we have a side-loading, front-facing battery tray, it is a single-double a battery which for me personally is awesome because they’re very cheap and very easy to source. On the rear of the side battery tray we also our illumination dial which has 11 different settings, it has 9 daylight settings and two night vision settings however the night vision performance on the Romeo 7 is going to be far below what you’re going to find on much nicer optics, Aim Points, EOTECHs, Vortex, AMGs and so on and so forth. We also have capped windage and elevation turrets.

The caps themselves are captured via these annoying rubber grommets, yes, they are more secure because, of course, they are captured but they’re more annoying to get on and off again just a very minor thing. Very nice thing about the caps though they are nicely knurled and when you flip them over you can use the caps themselves to adjust the windage or elevation or literally anything you can fit in the flat-head screw-driver esque shape of the turrets themselves whether that’s the edge of a bullet or edge of case rim or something else you can find laying around, they are very easy to adjust. Adjustments themselves are half MOA. Last thing that we have in a box are these fairly decent standard flip caps that you can throw away if you don’t use them of leave them on until they inevitably get broken or fall off and lost.

In my own channel I already reviewed a standard Romeo 7 with great success, my experience with it has been very, very good, that optic passed through a double-drop test and at this point many thousands rounds without a single issue.

Battery

The battery life on the SIG Romeo is also excellent rated at 50 000 hours at a medium setting, however, it is also paired with SIG’s MOTAC which is their motion activation, which means that anytime you’re not moving the optic it will turn off, any time you are moving it, it will automatically turn on. I have used dozens of SIF Romeo style optics, their budget and nicer optics at this point. Without fail the MOTEC has been perfect 100% of the time I have never had it not turn on or not turn off and of yet I have only ever had one battery die in my original SIG Romeo 5, I posted that video a long time ago at this point and did horrible, horrible things to that optic but with the 50 000 hours of battery life combined with MOTEC you’re getting a battery life that is essentially infinite or as long as the physical battery itself can actually hold the charge because, of course, that 50 000 hours of use time in real world let’s say it’s 10 000 hours of use time, that’s 10 000 hours of using the gun of moving with the gun not 10 000 hours of it sitting in your safe or on the shelf somewhere so the battery life on all six dots is excellent.

Personally, there are a lot of advantages for me on having a larger 30 millimeter size window and body. The first one is, of course, you’re getting that bigger viewing window which again for me is just a personal preference thing also on top of that it means that it’s easier to get behind in more odd circumstances, odd positions, that sort of thing or if you are wearing like a gas mask it makes it much easier to use this much bigger red dot because, of course, with that 30 millimeter window you get like two and a half times the size of the viewing surface that you would on a 20 millimeter window because, of course, that’s how circles work, it makes SIG Romeo 7 much easier and much more pleasurable to use when you’re not just sitting there static, when you’re actually moving in between targets, when you’re transitioning, when you’re on the ground, when you’re on the hood of a car, when you’re inside of a car the SIG Romeo 7 for most people probably is going to have a slight edge in terms of performance and usability when you’re in non-standard more awkward positions so for me that is the main advantage of having a larger window on top of it if you’re using it with more gear, plate carriers, gas masks, that sort of thing.

Emitter

I have a very little to complain about on the emitter on the SIG Romeo 7, it does a very good job. You do, of course, have nine daylight settings and on maximum brightness it is more than daylight bright usually eye emitter one or two clicks underneath maximum daylight bright and that’s even probably a little bit two bright for some people so the red dots emitter gets more than bright enough in full on daylight conditions and if I want to tune it down it’s still crisp enough and usable enough to be a little bit more precise. It’s not the best, most precise 2 MOA dot, if you get it underneath a magnifier 3X or 4X magnifier you will notice that it is a little bit oblong, not terrible and still definitely usable, but with this sort of price point, it’s not the perfect crisp, perfectly circular 2MOA dot, on top of that the emitter refresh rate Is very good, I’m not sure what exactly it is but you don’t get any sort of that streaking effect that you’ll get in other lower refresh emitters where you kind of see the dot turn on and off as you sweeping it from left to right. This one here has a very solid, very constant emitter one downside one minor downside to it is that, of course, if you are on a much higher brightness setting than you need, you will get a lot of artifacting and light reflecting off of glass itself and it will look very gross if you’re like three or four or five settings above where you need to be but again that is just the improper setting on the red dot but it’s still worth mentioning.

This one here as you’ll notice is not in a standard height mount, I am actually using A193 riser from SKD Tactical, it only cost me 40 bucks, it is, of course, compatible with the Aimpoint ACO or RCO, I forget which one exactly and the Comp M4 and because this is based off of a compound 4 pattern you can literally throw it right in between your base low mount which is the SIG low mount and then, of course, your Romeo 7 on top pushing it up to A193 which for me personally is very, very comfortable.

All that would be worthless if the SIG Romeo 7 low mount itself was very poor quality, fortunately it uses a singular large style crossbow with a good amount of clamping area, not great definitely could be a little bit more clamping area but it does have a decent amount of clamping area but more importantly it’s squared off so it acts like a recoil lug which means that it will provide more contact surface between your mount and your upper receiver therefore in theory providing you a more solid lock up and a more consistent zero, on top of that it is a strong, substantially sided cross-bolt and you can get 65-inch pounds of torque on your cross-bolt. I don’t think SIG recommends that much, I think it’s probably like 35, 45 or 50 or something like that, but you can push it to 50, 60 inch pounds and I personally have had any issues running it at 65-inch pounds so the non-QD low mount is a very good option, very, very solid for the money, I have not had any issues whatsoever.

I should mention that it also does, of course, come with a QD that is a little bit taller so if you even wanted to bump it up a little bit more to like a 2.2 and you can have a very tall skyscraper-esque red dot if you like that sort of thing. The QD lever is a little bit different it does, of course, have a lock and then so it torques down from the other side so it’s a lot more difficult to figure out what sort of inch pounds of torque you’re actually getting on the rail, however, when I did the drop test on my original Romeo 7 just a black one with the QD mount it did, of course, still hold zero perfectly so I don’t have any qualms about that mount either. Personally, when I put a red dot on a gun I’m kind of half and half between QDs and non-QD mounts, I’m totally fine either way so on this one here stick it on there torque it down to the appropriate setting and you’re good to go.

Size and Weight

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows though there are two obvious downsides on the SIG Romeo 7 and those are going to be size and weight. The size, of course, not really a lot you can do about, it is about twice the size as basically every other micro-style red dot on the market and the weight at 12.5 ounces with the stock mount if you add in an extra large chunk of aluminum on the bottom you’re probably pushing 13, 13 and a half ounces or so, you’re looking at again two to three times the weight of certain other, you know, micro-style red dots on the market and for some people it’s not gonna be worth the extra size and weight and that’s totally understandable. Foe me the trade-off for size and weight is I get a very chunky durable optic with a double a battery that is very easy to source, very easy to replace and I get a very easy to use window. For me personally on a red dot gun, on a gun that just has a dot on it, I’m not worried about anything else, it’s an inside of a 100 yards, gun, home-defense, truck gun, quick-shooting up close, whatever you wanna call it, for me the extra six ounces and the, you know a little bit longer a little bit bigger doesn’t matter to me anyway since it’s a red dot gun I’m putting a red dot on it. For me those trade-offs are more than enough in 90% of circumstances where I wouldn’t necessarily want a SIG Romeo 7 as long like a micro gun because if you’re already cramped on rail space and it’s just a really tight package you may not want to stuff something this large on top of it so that is where, you know, other micro-style red dots really shine, if you don’t want the extra size and weight, you know, there are a plethora of good options on the market. This isn’t for that, this isn’t trying to be small or lightweight. It’s really trying to be a budget version of the Aimpoint CompM4 and personally and especially for the money it does a really, really good job so if you like the looks of the Comp M4, don’t want to spend the money, you still want 95, 97, 99 % of the performance, the SIG Romeo 7 is a good way to go and in all of my time and experience at this point with multiple SIG Romeo 7s I have never had a single issue.

That’s not to say that they don’t have downside, of course they do, of course size and weight is going to be the most obvious one but also at this price point you are going to get more QC issues, you’re going to have more things go wrong probably the most likely thing to go wrong in one of these optics is the electronics, the internal electronics die because of some QC overseas, did not do their job quite perfectly and so, you know, you get a batch that dies after, you know, x amount or hundred or rounds or hundreds of hours of use or something like that. It’s gonna be more prevalent at this price category, so if you have an infinite amount of money you could, of course, buy the real thing, go get a CompM4 and forget about it, but for most people on a budget outfitting multiple different guns or just wanting something that looks cool without costing an arm and a leg the SIG Romeo 7 is a very good way to go.