Mount Height for an Optic on an AR15

I've been noticing people running higher and higher mounts and just thought these guys had giraffe necks. Learn something new everyday.

Why did you put a vertical foregrip on a AR pistol?

Was that blowers one of the coolest instructors I've trained with for sure

Excellent info. Great perspective

What about clearing the Iron front sights ruining a Vortex Strike Eagle 1-6?

I want to not have interference a longer distances where the guages would come into play.

I've seeing dudes running carrying handle red dot mount

I'm wondering if I'll see the a2 fixed front sight through a 3x prism from primary arms.

Unity tactical 2.26” mount (:

Confusion: Lower 1/3 is considered a .83" mount. Yet you are talking about 2"? Am I wrong about this?

If you don't care about irons, the 1.93" mounts are the gateway drug to long neck boi mounts

Picked up some useful info. But lots and lots of acronyms. Had no idea what you were talking abt for much of the vid. Seems aimed at guys already deeply involved in the sport.

1/3 co-witness for the boys with big cheeks 😆

I'm running a Romeo 3 dot on a 2" mount on my 50 beowulf & absolutely love it, but on my ar10 I run a lower 1/3rd with my swamp fox lpvo. Great content thanks man 👍

Old video but the AR at the :53 and 5:14 mark has a pistol stock with a vertical fore grip. Big no no unless you paid your $200.

What's funny is I recently did a build and I wanted to keep my carry handle. When in inquired about keeping it and putting a red dot on top everyone said "its too high" and even one optics dealer I went too told me I don't want to do that lol. I have an MRO on top now and I love it. I did a 50m zero and it holds pretty well out to 100 but I notice at 25m and under I do have to aim high. For like the ideal thoracic cavity/mediastinum target the point of aim is about neck. I love keeping my head and neck in a more neutral position than the forward slouched position. I like having an open field of view with no obstructions through my glass, its high enough where I don't even see the rifle, and with just a slight adjustment of head position I have my irons always ready to go with a 25/300m zero. Also shooting with barricades or even prone I could lay the rifle more horizontal lowering my signature, something I can't do with a lower mount. Just takes some getting used to point of impact difference in close engagements.

It's funny how the AR community goes in circles and it always almost comes back to the A1 still being the perfect rifle. Rifles got heavy and now we want them light again, length of pull got longer and shorter and now the A1 LOP is almost where everyone puts their stocks at, optics mounts are almost as high or equal that of A1 carry handle, barrels got thicker now they're back to pencil barrels. Stoner really did make the zenith of center fire cartridge rifles. Almost 60 years and I don't see anything replacing it until we get to a new ammunition type.

ADM doesn't make a 1.7 (lower 1/3 mount) LPVO mount… Badger Ordinance makes a 1.7 but they want $300 for it. Anyone else offering 1.7? Sounds like the best of both worlds to me and would allow standardizing red dots and lpvo mounting heights.

Thanks for the vid i now understand. I find no riser mount annoying on my neck since i have to get down low

I just bought a Scalarworks 1.93” mount with a Nightforce NX8 love it

2:06 dot net

Music in into way too loud over your voice.

What wrap do you have on your hearing protection? looks legit.

What chest rig are you running? Looks like a shoulder sling with AR mags. Love it!

1/3 cowitness because 3 fused cervical vertebrae places MRO red dot perfectly for me with adequate check weld.

1:37 Yeah, so you have a short barrel rifle now with that foregrip on your pistol. I suggest you remove that before you get a sweet ol felony. 😉

I've been an absolute co-witness guy for a long time when available, then I realized I was a much quicker shooter with my EOtech EXPS series optics. I assumed this was because of the larger box and reticle vs dot. Then I tried a lower 1/3 on one of my Aimpoint CompM5s, nope, it's the height. Currently switching over everything to lower 1/3.

wait isn't this judge joe brown from TGC?

anyone know of any options for in-line iron sights for 1.93" optic mount? i'd rather not have to go with offset irons.

I’ve typically run a lower 1/3 in the past for my home rifles and absolute on my duty gear. However, I also have recently switched to a 2” mount and am not looking back. As many others have alluded to, seldom do you need to ditch your optic for irons. It’s perfectly acceptable to configure your optic to maximize ergonomics—so long as, for that 0.01% chance you need your irons, you can dismount the optic and press on. I’ll offer that, I no longer have a stiff neck the day after a long range session.

Is that the INVRT Bandoleer you're running?

@Wise Men Company
Any recommendations for people who hunt with AR's and not looking for a killing people or room entry scopes.? Popular 30mm tube scopes run a 50mm objective. What ring or mount height would allow the objective to clear the rail.??

1.93 scalarworks t2. Its tits

The next is 1.93 slightly lower than 2. 1/3 co-witness allows you to run fix sights. I ran co-witness for years, and thought why would I want to run something taller. After I went to a 1/3 with fix sights I NEVER looked back. For running and gunning, low power 1x shooting in a 1-6 hands down scaler works 1.93 period HANDS down. High power lots of prone precision shooting where cheek weld is up most importance go co-witness.

I was looking for a video like this. Thanks for the information.

"back when there were carry handles on AR's…"

Excuse me… Mine still has one and I mount my optics to it…

I had an NCO in the army that still mounted an acog on top of a carry handle

Lower 1/3 all day

Great info, thanks for sharing.

Co-witness with fold-down back up sights is the best set up. IMHO

haha white dude problems.

I use an EOTeck red dot. with no back up sights. What height is that considered?

I'm used to working with 2"

From my cheek weld to my line of sight is short. With that being said I still use lower 1/3. I use to have all absolute, but since my introduction to NODS, it may all change.

Damn… is that your girl at the 2:10ish mark? Good catch bro! Especially for a cabbage patch doll… lol

I prefer the 1.93 for right now on my LVPO and a tad higher for my eotech… especially the wilcox mounts.