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Aimpoint Announces the Release of the New Acro S-2 Sight

March 10, 2025January 17, 2024 by Tim Stetzer

Aimpoint just announced a new red dot that’s to be released at the SHOT Show next week. The Acro S-2 is designed for use on shotguns with a vent rib. It’s geared toward bird and small game hunters and sporting clays shooters. Being that it attaches right to the vent rib (using a variety of … Read more

Optic Review: Primary Arms SLx MD-25 Red Dot

March 6, 2025December 15, 2020 by Jeremy S.

The landscape of “budget” optics has sure changed over the last decade or so, with many new companies producing ever better, higher-quality options at affordable prices. Primary Arms is one of those brands that has established itself and earned a firm foothold in the market by bringing good looking, perfectly serviceable, often quite feature-rich … Read more

SHOT Show: Aimpoint CompM5B Red Dot Sight

March 6, 2025January 28, 2020 by Travis Pike

Aimpoint invented the red dot optic, and they’ve been a company with a massive line up of excellent optics. Their optics serve police and military forces around the world including the US Army. At SHOT Show 2020 Aimpoint announced the new CompM5B, an addition to their M5 sight line. The CompM5B has two major changes … Read more

New From Primary Arms: Advanced Micro Dot With 50k Hours Battery Life and Lifetime Warranty

November 18, 2017 by Jeremy S.

Primary Arms continues to build upon its reputation for making solid red dots at an affordable price. In a recent e-mail blast, they’ve announced the new MD-RB-AD (microdot, removable base, advanced). It’s a compact optic with a 2 MOA dot, removable T1/H1-compatible base, rotary brightness adjustment knob, 50,000 hours battery life, IP57 waterproof rating, and … Read more

New From Aimpoint: CompM5 Red Dot Sight

September 14, 2017 by Dan Zimmerman

Aimpoint says their new-to-the-civilian-market CompM5 red dot sight was “originally created to meet the needs of a specific official end user.” Since the compact, light weight optic is waterproof to 150 feet and can stay on for five years on a single AAA, any guesses as to who that original customer was? The larger, heaver AA-powered … Read more

Gear Review: Primary Arms Advanced 30mm Red Dot

September 8, 2017 by Louis K. Bonham

When it comes to affordable optics, many of the house-brand offerings from Primary Arms have been TTAG favorites. Whether it was their 4-14×44 Mil Dot FFP Scope, their 6x scope with .22LR reticle, their 1-6x ACSS scope, or their 2.5X Prism Scope with ACSS Reticle, Primary Arms products typically (but not always) have gotten high … Read more

Gear Review: K Rounds Range Back Pack (Gen1)

April 28, 2017 by Conner W.

K Rounds is a company that’s not afraid to experiment. In fact, they have a solid reputation of making products like the Pancake-Thigh Rig come to life in their custom shop by tapping into their extensive manufacturing resources. Of course, not all products in their catalog are customer-initiated – most are internal creations. Case in point: … Read more

AimPoint Introduces Micro S-1

January 19, 2017 by Tyler Kee

Anyone who has given consideration to the purchase of a red dot sight has surely looked at the Aimpoint line, especially the Micro series of sights. Having spent some time behind them, I can tell you that they just always work, and are a great way to go in both eyes open with your rifle … Read more

Gear Review: Holosun HS503C Circle Dot Sight

September 14, 2015 by Jeremy S.

A few months ago I stumbled upon Holosun Technologies, a company out of Florida that makes a range of red dot optics. Nearly all of them employ a solar panel to provide power to the ultra-efficient LED, with a battery backup if it’s too dark. With this combination, the CR2032 battery’s life is up to 50,000 hours (5.7 years). Most of Holosun’s models are available with a 2 MOA red dot only, or like my PARALOW HS503C here with that same red dot inside of a 65 MOA circle and the option to turn the circle on or off. Let’s dive in to check out the rest of the features . . .

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