Aimpoint COA Damage: How to Protect Your Red Dot
Aimpoint COA Damage: How to Protect Your Red Dot. Mickey from Carry Trainer shows how soft armor damaged his Aimpoint COA and walks through the zeroing process to get it back on target—plus how to prevent it. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/carry_trainer#person", "name": "Carry Trainer", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/carry_trainer", "description": "Carry Trainer is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/23b35284-668f-4e58-9719-10abce42e4be.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/aimpoint-coa-damage-protection-zeroing#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/aimpoint-coa-damage-protection-zeroing" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/aimpoint-coa-damage-protection-zeroing", "headline": "Aimpoint COA Damage: How to Protect Your Red Dot", "name": "Aimpoint COA Damage: How to Protect Your Red Dot", "description": "Mickey from Carry Trainer shows how soft armor damaged his Aimpoint COA and walks through the zeroing process to get it back on target—plus how to prevent it.", "articleSection": "Optics & Sights", "articleBody": "Aimpoint COA damage from soft armor abrasion is a real failure mode for duty and concealed carry shooters, and it happened to Mickey from Carry Trainer this past week. In his Greyhive video, Mickey shows the ruined battery compartment cover on the Aimpoint COA mounted to his Gen 6 Glock — destroyed not by impact or drop, but by stretchy, abrasive soft armor rubbing against the optic all day long. The failure is instructive because the optic never stopped working. \"It still works,\" Mickey says. \"It still would have been able to save my life and do the job and all that. You can reach in there with a pencil or something and still push the button, but the waterproofness and all that stuff is gone.\" That's the quiet kind of gear failure — the one that doesn't announce itself until you need the sealing it no longer has. This guide covers what Mickey documented: how the damage happened, how Aimpoint handled the replacement, and the complete zeroing process he used to get the new COA back on target at 15 yards. Key Takeaways Mickey's Aimpoint COA battery cover was destroyed by abrasive soft armor rubbing against the optic through a full day of duty carry on a Gen 6 Glock. The optic remained functional — the button could still be pushed with a pencil — but the waterproof seal was gone. Mickey contacted Aimpoint the next day with a photo and had a replacement in hand before filming the zeroin…