Olight Osight New Releases — The Osight S and Osight X

A few months back we reviewed the original Osight, Olight's rechargeable red dot pistol optic. Now they've released two new versions: the Osight S, an RMSc-footprint closed emitter with a multi-reticle system, and the Osight X, an upgraded version of the original with a 3 MOA dot and 32 MOA circle. And before anything else — Olight does a fantastic job on packaging. Optic and cover plate on one side, a full set of screws in a little pill box, the charger, a carrying baggie. Other companies should take notice.

The S is the one that changes the game for me. It's RMSc, it's a closed emitter, and the footprint sits right around Holosun EPS Carry territory. That means you can finally put an Osight on guns like the Tisas double-stack 1911 Duty I ran it on, or an X-Macro, or the new XD Mod.3 — which is pretty badass. Charging works the same as the original: the magnetic housing sits over the optic, shows you a charge indicator light, and plugs in over USB-C. Throw it in your bag and top off between range days.

Shooting the S in the cold — gloves on, because it was cold as out there — the dot was crystal clear about halfway up the brightness range on a bright day. No jump, no shake, no distortion, none of that little jitter you sometimes get on red dots when you're shooting. Target transitions were easy because the window's big enough that I never lost the plate moving side to side, and the circle-dot lets you anticipate the shot coming onto the next target. And if you're wondering why my weapon light fell off mid-string: I hadn't flipped the little rail indent around. That one's on me, not the optic.

The X is a honking thing — think 507comp-sized, with a window that is absolutely insane. I ran it on my Canik TP9 Elite Combat, one of my top five guns and owner of one of the best triggers ever made. My one gripe with the setup: Canik's optic plates are really big, which makes a big optic look even bigger. But that window makes target acquisition stupid fast — you're picking up the next plate before your dot even gets there. And the reticle takes up just enough real estate inside the glass that you're not distracted by everything else in the window, which is my usual complaint with huge-window optics running tiny reticles.

Y'all know I've said it a million times — I'm a huge circle-dot fan, and both of these carry the multi-reticle system with the 32 MOA circle. I bore-sighted the X the night before and it was hitting close to target from that alone, with easy windage and elevation adjustments to finish the job.

On longevity: the original Osight has lived on my M17-ish build for six, seven, eight months now, recharged and drawn all the way down, and it's still as good as the day I got it. The thing lasts for freaking ever. I don't have pricing on the new ones yet — Olight was releasing these at SHOT Show as we filmed — and I'll drop that info in the description when I get it. But between the S finally bringing this to RMSc carry guns and the X's ridiculous window, Olight knocked it out of the park.