Tech Sight AK-100 Review (from mid July)

by Sarge , Central Misery, Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 19:08 (3352 days ago) @ JD

In my plodding quest for practical accuracy from my old WASR-10, I ordered a Tech Sight Model AK100S for the WASR 10. This model has the 0-2 'flip' aperture found on various issue M16 and M4 rifles. Tech says their unmarked aperture adds 0.036” of elevation over the one marked 0-2. Since I zero practically all bottleneck rifle cartridges at 200 yards, that should put me in the ballpark at 300 yards with the taller aperture.

Elevation is accomplished via your issue AKM front sight- which you can precisely center in the hood, because the Tech Sight has standard, 'bullet point' windage adjustment.

I found this sight very easy to shoot well and adding 8” of sight radius helps. The target itself is much clearer than with the standard AK sights. I could shoot the AKM sights well for a few shots, but on small targets at distance they fuzzed badly and pretty quick. With the Tech I could easily focus on the 5” spray-painted dot at 196 yards. Seeing it well means hitting it, in this case 5 straight with a couple on the edges.

Even better news was by flipping up the long-range aperture, I could put three in a B27 at 300 yards with nothing outside the 8 ring. Downsides? Field stripping is slightly more complicated. The Tech comes with a dedicated dust cover, held in place by detents on either side of the sight tower. And that tower is too tall to accommodate any siderail scope/mount which sits low enough to be useful. There's always the Ultimak rail, if one is so inclined.

I'll happily accept those trade-offs for a set of irons that actually work, on the AKM platform.

www.tech-sights.com/ak-products/